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GLASGOW, United Kingdom — Sarah Mitton set a Canadian record and claimed the gold medal in women's shot put at the world athletics indoor championships on Friday. Mitton's record throw, on her sixth and final attempt, measured 20.22 metres.

BURLINGTON, ONTARIO — The prospective adoptive parents of a 12-year-old boy who was found dead in a Burlington, Ont., home more than a year ago have been charged with first-degree murder, police said Thursday.

Halifax officials delivered on a promise Friday to cut electricity to the dozen or so people living in a homeless encampment set up last fall outside city hall. As of 9 a.m.

Toronto Argonauts quarterback Chad Kelly is denying allegations that he harassed a former employee of the CFL club.

Christopher Morales Williams’s progression has been as rapid as his world-best performance last Saturday was shocking. The 19-year-old from Vaughan, Ont.

REGINA — Brad Gushue was cruising at the 2018 Canadian men's curling championship in Regina. After winning a first Brier in storybook fashion in his hometown of St. John's N.L.

WINNIPEG — The landmark intersection of Portage Ave. and Main St., which has inspired a song, a stamp, and years of passionate debate among Winnipeg residents, may soon be open to pedestrians for the first time in more than 40 years.

HALIFAX — The last of 26 charges laid after a 2021 Halifax housing protest has ended with an acquittal, capping a two-and-a-half-year legal saga during which just a handful of prosecutions proceeded.

TORONTO — A 27-year-old man is facing assault charges after a woman was shot in the face with a pellet gun in east Toronto this week. Toronto police Insp.

MONTREAL — AtkinsRéalis chief executive Ian Edwards announced the engineering firm is looking to sell its money-losing joint venture with Hitachi Energy after beating earnings expectations and notching a record services backlog last quarter.