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Joey Votto was reminded again on Monday of his breakthrough major league season.

The Toronto native brought the National League most valuable player award back to Canada after a 13-year absence, earning 31 of 32 first-place votes and 443 points from…

He's been to space already — now Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté will get his own star in Tinseltown.

The Quebec-born billionaire philanthropist will be awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame Monday afternoon.

The star recognizes Laliberté's achievements in…

A new auction of wireless spectrum is expected by 2012, Industry Minister Tony Clement said Monday.

Speaking at the International Institute of Communications conference in Ottawa, Clement said the government will launch consultations “shortly” on the possibility of selling 700 MHz…

Alberta's deficit is projected to be $5 billion by the end of the current fiscal year, according to figures released Monday by Finance Minister Ted Morton.

That's a half billion dollars more than projected in the spring budget.

The recession may be…

It was a deadly weekend on Saskatchewan highways, with nine people losing their lives in two separate accidents.

Six people died in a head-on collision on the east side of the province near Moosomin Sunday afternoon, the RCMP said.

Four young men…

Aid agencies and the United Nations need to do more to slow the spread of a cholera outbreak that has claimed at least 1,250 lives and made thousands in Haiti ill, an emergency medical organization says.

Ivan Gayton, an emergency co-ordinator…

The northern Manitoba community of Waterhen is in a state of emergency because of flooding caused by ice jams.

Highway 328, one of the main roads leading into Waterhen and nearby Mallard, was closed Sunday evening after the Waterhen River rose…

Montreal police are on the scene of another firebombing that targeted an east-end café previously hit by a would-be arsonists earlier this month.

Authorities were called just after 4:30 a.m. Monday morning following a second incident at Café Danesi, in the…

Freezing rain pounded parts of Eastern Ontario and Southwestern Quebec, where one man was killed in a pileup on Montreal's South Shore early Monday.

Environment Canada issued a freezing rain warning for several Quebec regions and Eastern Ontario, where at least…

It was a deadly weekend on Saskatchewan highways, with nine people losing their lives in two separate accidents.

Six people died in a head-on collision on the east side of the province near Moosomin Sunday afternoon, the RCMP said.

Four young men…