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A magnitude 7.7 earthquake has hit Canada's Pacific coast province of British Columbia on Saturday night, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

A Canadian official says the last Western detainee at Guantanamo is being repatriated to Canada. The official confirmed on Saturday that Omar Khadr is on his way back to Canada. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

Annaliese Carr of Canada became the youngest person to complete a nearly 27-hour, 31.6-mile swim across Lake Ontario.

They talked about redemption for months on end, and now it's here, the pending denouement of a script fit for Hollywood. With a 4-3 semifinal victory against Canada late in the second period of extra time Monday, the U.S. women's soccer team advanced to play Japan for Olympic gold. The Americans also get a shot at payback for the island nation's victory on penalty kicks in the World Cup last summer.

Michigan will get all the benefits of a new international bridge but bear none of the cost or other risk under a long-awaited deal to be announced Friday, the state's lieutenant governor said.

Cigarette butts are the targets of new recycling efforts worldwide as Canada launches a voluntary program that turns butts into plastic.

Police investigating the grisly killing of a Chinese student said mailed packages containing the man's body parts also included notes.

Packages containing a human foot and hand were discovered at two schools in Vancouver on Tuesday, in what could be the latest gruesome twist in the case of a Canadian porn actor suspected of dismembering and eating his former lover....

A Canadian porn actor suspected of murdering and dismembering a Chinese student and mailing his body parts to Canada's top political parties was reading about himself on the Internet when he was arrested Monday at a cafe in Berlin.

Canadian police are hunting a self-proclaimed porn star who they say killed and dismembered a student, mailed the body parts to police and politicians, and put a video of the act on the Internet.