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MONTREAL - Pope Francis has named a retired Quebec Superior Court judge to investigate allegations of sexual touching against a senior leader of the province's Roman Catholic Church. In a Feb. 8 manda...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Jason Kelce has retired after 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles. The 36-year-old Kelce officially called it quits Monday at the Eagles' NovaCare Complex, ending a career in w...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government says it has reached 179 housing agreements with municipalities that will help build 750,000 homes over the next decade. Housing Minister Sean Fraser says the federal go...

MONTREAL - Quebec public health officials say the Montreal area has become the epicentre of measles cases in Canada. Officials have confirmed there is community spread of the virus in and around the c...

One-quarter of respondents polled last year felt that racism and discrimination were problems in community sports in the country, according to a survey published Monday by Statistics Canada. Eighteen ...

DALLAS - The Dallas Mavericks have converted the contract of Canadian guard A.J. Lawson from a two-way to a standard NBA deal. The move makes Lawson, from Brampton, Ont., eligible to play for Dallas i...

REGINA - Northwest Territories' Jamie Koe upset defending champion Brad Gushue 7-5 at the Canadian men's curling championship. Koe, who has skipped a territories team to the playoffs once in 16 previo...

FREDERICTON - Maine's state legislature says it has found flaws in a Canadian study on the use of the herbicide Agent Orange in the 1960s on a southern New Brunswick military base. A report released i...

While the North West area including the Battlefords and Meadow Lake continues to dig its way out after the weekend's snow storm, weather conditions will be dropping overnight to a low of minus 30 C.Be...

PARIS (AP) - French lawmakers approved a bill that will enshrine a woman's right to an abortion in the French Constitution during a historic joint session of parliament in at the Palace of Versailles ...