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MONTREAL - Super Bowl champion and Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif will spend the next few months studying at one of the world's most prestigious universities. T...

NEW YORK - Elena Ferrante, James McBride and Isabel Wilkerson are among the nominees for the Kirkus Prize, a $50,000 honour for the best fiction, nonfiction and children's books. The nominees, six eac...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Derek Sloan, who finished last in the party's recent leadership race, says he has no regrets about his campaign. Sloan says he supports the winner of the race, Erin O'Toole, a...

CALGARY - The Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation (AIOC) has announced its first commitment to provide a loan guarantee to a consortium of six Alberta First Nations to enable their participat...

JOHANNESBURG - Anti-apartheid crusader and Nelson Mandela's personal lawyer George Bizos has died at 92, his family said Wednesday. He died of natural causes at home, the family said. Bizos, who came ...

NEW YORK - A former New York gynecologist accused of sexually abusing dozens of patients, including the wife of former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, was charged Wednesday with attacki...

Alberta has announced $6 million for two palliative care groups to enhance care and the appointment of an MLA to consult with stakeholders to allocate another $14 million to palliative care over the n...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - The premiers of Ontario and Quebec are calling on Ottawa to increase health transfers to the provinces, saying sustainable, long-term funding is required on top of the fe...

A proposed resolution has been submitted for the case of a man charged in a fatal shooting last year in Red Deer. Chase Freed appeared in Red Deer provincial court Wednesday morning via CCTV from the ...

SAANICH, B.C. - A python that twice escaped from its owner in the Victoria area has not survived its second bid for freedom. Saanich police say the snake, which was nearly 1.5 metres long,&n...