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OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country's merchandise trade deficit narrowed to $5.9 billion in May as gold exports climbed higher. The result compares with the record trade deficit of $7.6 billio...

HOW DO WE KNOW that summer is here? There are all sorts of markers that people use. But I can tell you that there is only one true indicator. It's not the increase in heat outside leading to an increa...

DENVER (AP) - Should Taylor Makar someday make the roster, big brother Cale needs to consider altering the back of his Colorado Avalanche sweater. That's the running joke of Taylor, anyway - a "C. Mak...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Danish police said Thursday they have deployed officers to the Israeli embassy in the Nordic country's capital to examine a suspicious package. Copenhagen police wrote on X ...

MADRID (AP) - Liverpool player Diogo Jota and his brother have died in a car accident in Spain, police said Thursday. The Spanish Civil Guard confirmed to The Associated Press that Jota and his brothe...

MADRID (AP) - Liverpool player Diogo Jota and his brother have died in a car accident in Spain, police said Thursday. The Spanish civil guard confirmed to The Associated Press that Jota and his brothe...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Public servants' confidence in their bosses drops Confidence federal public servants have in their senior mana...

MONTREAL - Quebec's language watchdog has changed its tune on whether it's acceptable to use the word "go" to cheer on sports teams. In a new guideline posted in its online dictionary, the Office qubc...

PONOKA, ALBERTA - It was August 1983 at the Hand Hills Lake Stampede and Les McIntyre had just fallen out of his chuckwagon. As he remembers it, McIntyre had made a sharp turn, hit a competitor's wago...

Inspector Drew Milne of the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service likened it to finding a needle in a haystack - the haystack being a 137-hectare park on Vancouver Island, and the needle being...