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Overcrowded emergency rooms are frustrating patients and staff in parts of the country as respiratory illness season exacerbates long waits for care.

Quebec's Environment Department says it is introducing a new measure to mitigate the impact of wind farms on bats native to the province.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed assistant general managers Kyle Carson and Paul Jones to two-year contract extensions. Jones will be entering his sixth season as assistant GM for Saskatchewan, having joined the club back in 2019.

Alan Letang remembers the phone call. It was 2009 and his career had already included 14 seasons playing professional hockey in North America and Europe. The voice on the other end of the line posed a question.

WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have signed American all-star defensive back Deatrick Nichols to a two-year extension, the CFL team announced Thursday. Nichols was scheduled to become a free agent in February.

WASHINGTON — It's a truism in foreign-policy circles that the world learned some hard lessons from Donald Trump's volatile first term as president.

INNICHEN, Italy — It was another successful day for Ottawa's Schmidt siblings on the World Cup ski cross circuit.

Canadian shoppers opened up their wallets a touch more in October, helping retail sales rise 0.7 per cent to $66.9 billion that month, but Statistics Canada and analysts are warning such numbers won't keep climbing.

CALGARY — Crescent Point Energy Corp. says it expects average production of 198,000 to 206,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2024 now that it has closed its deal to buy Hammerhead Energy Inc.

TORONTO — Mastermind says it will stop honouring gift cards after Christmas Eve. The distressed toy retailer says in court filings that gift cards won't be accepted at its stores after Dec. 24.