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Sidney Crosby is remembering fellow Nova Scotian Lowell MacDonald, a former NHLer who died Sunday, as an inspiration to his career. MacDonald finished his NHL career with 180 goals and 390 points in 506 games, last playing in the 1977-78 season.

Canadian ski jumper Abi Strate started the new year with a bang by soaring to her first career World Cup victory on Thursday.

Longtime NHL defenceman Petr Svoboda recently auctioned off his Stanley Cup ring from the Montreal Canadiens' 1986 championship to raise funds for a cause that hits close to home.

Most people who take prescription opioids as an alternative to illicit drugs must now take them under the supervision of a pharmacist. Some worry the move will push people back to toxic street drugs, while others say the changes were long overdue.

About 40 people are dead and 115 others injured, most of them seriously, after a fire tore through a crowded bar during a New Year's Eve party in the upscale ski resort of Crans-Montana in Switzerland, officials said on Thursday.

The voluntary grocery code of conduct for grocers, suppliers, wholesalers and primary producers in Canada is set to fully roll out on Thursday.

This year brought us our third-known interstellar visitor, beautiful displays of the northern lights and the opening of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory that will change our views on the universe in ways we have yet to understand. But now, we look ahead ...

Cole Beaudoin and Brady Martin each scored twice as Canada topped Finland 7-4 at the world junior hockey championship on Wednesday.

If Canada's forward group is its superpower at the Olympic men's hockey tournament, its kryptonite might be the lack of a true difference-maker in the crease.

Kristýna Kaltounková scored early, Savannah Norcross added an insurance goal late and goaltender Kayle Osborne finished off a shutout as the New York Sirens beat the Vancouver Goldeneyes 2-0 on Wednesday.