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MONTREAL — An underachieving comedy festival in England and attempts by Facebook and YouTube to compete with the increasingly popular TikTok are among the factors that led revenue to plummet at the Just for Laughs festival parent company last year, a

The Professional Women’s Hockey League trade deadline is imminent, but the mood around the league is relatively calm. The NHL is usually rife with suspense, urgency and rumours of last-minute deals flying around as its annual deadline approaches.

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — Canada's Kim Boutin won gold in the women's 500-metre final Saturday at the ISU world short-track speedskating championships. Boutin, of Sherbrooke, Que., posted a winning time of 42.626 seconds.

HALIFAX — A rare bald raccoon is in the care of a Nova Scotia shelter, where staff hope she'll grow her fur coat – including a bandit-like, black streak across her eyes.

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VANCOUVER — The dispatch service that handles most of British Columbia's 911 calls says its lines are again operating as normal after an "unplanned outage" Saturday morning.

MONTREAL — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to continue on as head of government in an interview with Radio-Canada on Friday despite what he described as the personal challenges that come with the position.

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — Police in Abbotsford say a man has been arrested in the death of a woman after officers responded to a report of an assault at a home in the city Friday night. They say that patrol officers received the call around 10:50 p.m.

VEYSONNAZ, Switzerland — Marielle Thompson led a Canadian sweep of the medals in a women's World Cup ski-cross event Saturday. Thompson, of Whistler, B.C., registered the victory. Brittany Phelan, of Mont-Tremblant, Que.

A 30-hour armed standoff with Calgary police that forced some residents of a southeast neighbourhood out of their homes came to an end on Friday night after officers shot a man dead.