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TORONTO - Masai Ujiri was playing for the Derby Storm of the British Basketball League against a tough Birmingham Bullets team coached by a 20-something Nick Nurse. It was 1995, and the first meeting ...

MONTREAL - The elegant draft horses that pull tourist caleches through Old Montreal will soon be clip-clopping their way into the city’s history books as the municipal administration moves forwa...

HALIFAX - There have been no reported deaths of North Atlantic right whales in Canadian waters this year - with dozens of the endangered mammals spotted amid strict fishing and vessel speed restrictio...

VANCOUVER - Metis grandmother Elaine Durocher, who has lived on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for 11 years, says it’s time for an investigation into the disproportionate rate that Indigeno...

JERUSALEM - Sarah Idan, Iraq’s 2017 Miss Universe beauty pageant contestant, is visiting Israel this week, a trip that has enraged people back home. Idan was criticized and received death threat...

TORONTO - The sales practices of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies - a long-time sore spot for many consumers - will be the subject of a public inquiry ordered by the federal governm...

RED DEER, Alta. - A Humboldt Broncos player who was injured in a horrific bus crash in Saskatchewan has become an assistant coach for the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs. Graysen Cameron, a 19-year old forwa...

ROCKPORT, Texas - Country star George Strait leads a new tourism campaign for Hurricane Harvey-damaged Rockport and Fulton nearly 10 months after the storm devastated the area he sometimes calls home....

MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin craves sporting glory, and he got another taste of it in the opening match of the World Cup. Russia ended a 16-year wait for victory in the tournament by routing Saudi Arabia 5...

TORONTO - A teenager behind an Ontario town’s first Pride parade was still getting over his surprise on Thursday at having found himself taking a congratulatory phone call from Prime Minister Ju...