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TORONTO - The CFL will use a slightly different football this season. The new ball will be made of slightly harder leather and upon inflation could be up to an eighth of an inch larger. But it will sp...

CALGARY - An Alberta man who was nicknamed “balloonatic” for soaring over the Calgary Stampede grounds in a lawn chair held aloft with helium balloons says he’s planning a legal flig...

If laughter is the best medicine, then standup veteran Mike MacDonald was a healer in the minds of many Canadian comedians. Members of Canada’s comedy scene were remembering MacDonald on Monday,...

LOS ANGELES - Charles Manson was cremated and his ashes scattered following a brief, private funeral four months after the death of the man who gained worldwide infamy for the 1969 Los Angeles killing...

OTTAWA - Disgruntled Ottawa Senators fans want team owner Eugene Melnyk to know exactly how they feel, and their message is hard to miss. Four billboards with the message #MelnykOut went up at four di...

NORTH BAY, Ont. - Skip Jennifer Jones and her Canadian team fought through a few uncharacteristic mistakes Monday before pulling out a 9-5 win over China at the world women’s curling championshi...

WINNIPEG - A group that represents defence lawyers says some proposed laws aimed at cracking down on drivers distracted by hand-held electronic devices go too far. Manitoba and Ontario are two provinc...

JACKSON, Miss. - In a story March 19 about abortion legislation, The Associated Press erroneously identified the name of a group involved in legal action opposing the law. It is the Center for Reprodu...

Larry Kwong, the first player of Asian heritage to appear in an NHL game, has died at age 94. Kwong, who played a shift with the New York Rangers in a March 13, 1948 game against the Montreal Canadien...

Uber Technologies Inc. has suspended all of its self-driving vehicle testing - including a program in Toronto - after what is believed to be the first fatal pedestrian crash involving autonomous vehic...