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The organization that represents criminal trial lawyers in Calgary says they could strike if the Alberta government doesn't come up with serious cash to fix the legal aid system. Ian Savage says the L...

OTTAWA - The Native Women’s Association of Canada has issued a new report card for the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and has found problems. It found the inquiry fa...

NEW YORK - Disney is seeking new frontiers. The media company launched its $5-a-month sports streaming service, ESPN Plus, last month, and it signed a deal with Twitter this month to create Marvel, AB...

WINNIPEG - There was a brief moment of locker-room levity after the Jets had just blown a chance to clinch a spot in the Western Conference final for the first time in franchise - and the city’s...

Duane Daines knows what it’s like to have your life change in an instant, so he’s paying it forward. The Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Famer plans to donate the wheelchair he used at the 2018...

If the Winnipeg Jets are going to be the first Canadian NHL team in a quarter of a century to win a Stanley Cup, they’ll have to buck a recent trend of this country’s clubs losing the seve...

TAMPA, Fla. - Super Bowl-winning Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy is the next inductee into the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Ring of Honor. The Bucs made the announcement Tuesday, saying Dungy will be hon...

MONTREAL - Joe Scannella, who coached the Montreal Alouettes to two Grey Cup games in the 1970s, has died, the CFL club announced Tuesday. The team was informed by a family member that Scannella, who ...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government will spend nearly $1.6 million to market Canada to foreign journalists coming to Quebec City for next month’s G7 summit, conjuring echoes of the political uproar ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ancestor Heads Tribes along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea practiced a unique form of ancestor skull worship. Taking clay and mud from the riverbed, t...