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SASKATOON - Canada's 13 provincial and territorial leaders are in Saskatchewan this week, but for the first time in years, the annual gathering won't have women at the table."Symbolically, it's very s...

DALLAS - H. Ross Perot (pur-OH'), the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who twice ran for president, has died. Family spokesman James Fuller says Perot died early Tuesday. He was 89. Perot rose fr...

OTTAWA - Organizers of a trade conference in Hong Kong say former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien has been taken to hospital there. Tung Chee-hwa, a former leader of the semi-independent Chi...

Toronto FC has signed 22-year old Venezuelan winger Erickson Gallardo. The announcement came on the first day of the secondary MLS transfer window. Gallardo has won one cap for Venezuela, making his n...

YELLOWKNIFE - Tradition and technology are clashing on the tundra where Indigenous groups are debating the use of drones to hunt caribou. The issue arose during public consultations on new wildli...

More than one year after rescuers swam from home to home in a low-income neighbourhood devastated by flooding in Grand Forks, B.C., some residents say they were rattled to learn the property buyo...

WIMBLEDON, England - Serena Williams will face fellow American Alison Riske in the quarterfinals at the All England Club as she chases an eighth Wimbledon title and a 24th major overall. Riske upset t...

LONDON - U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out for a second day at Britain's ambassador to the United States on Tuesday, describing him as "wacky" and a "pompous fool," after a leak of emails critica...

WASHINGTON - Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor and activist, said Tuesday he's joining the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, reversing course after deciding earlier this year that he...

KABUL - The Taliban carried out a devastating suicide car bombing in central Afghanistan Sunday that killed 12 people and wounded over 150 others, said Afghan officials. The attack came as an all-Afgh...