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MOSCOW (AP) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was convicted of fraud and contempt of court and sentenced to nine years in a maximum security prison on Tuesday. A judge also ruled that Navalny...

TORONTO - Greg Warren is seeing no shortage of interest in the Ontario sports-betting market. Single-game sports betting has been legal in Canada since last summer but the industry won't open up fully...

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Not all curlers at the women's world championship are thrilled about experimenting with a new rule. Other changes to the game to make it more viewer-friendly are afoot. The World...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of March 22 ... What we are watching in Canada .....

A senator is set to introduce a bill today supported by primatologist Jane Goodall that would phase out elephants in captivity, put a stop to big cats at roadside zoos and give some animals legal stan...

Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard will table a budget today for the 2022-23 fiscal year, just over six months ahead of the provincial election. The budget comes as the Quebec government is facing pr...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) - Civilians making the dangerous escape from Ukraine's embattled southern port hub of Mariupol described fleeing through street-to-street gun battles and past unburied corpses as a ...

OTTAWA - The Liberals and New Democrats have reached a tentative deal to keep the Liberal minority government in power through to 2025, media reports say. The CBC is reporting the leadership of both p...

MONTREAL - Brad Marchand scored two goals, including the overtime game-winner, as the Boston Bruins notched a 3-2 comeback win over the Montreal Canadiens. Connor Clifton sent both teams to overtime j...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana's governor on Monday vetoed a bill banning transgender females from participating in girls school sports while signing another eliminating the state's permit requirement to...