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TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack are currently a team without a league, an insolvent rugby league franchise whose missed payroll totals some 500,000 pounds ($854,620). But where others see a sporti...

NEW YORK - Steve Nash was a leader, a guy who loved to get the best out of his teammates on the court and build relationships with them off it. Those qualities helped the Canadian become a Hall of Fam...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Turn up the lights and raise the curtain.The Esplanade stage has been empty for almost six months but that all changes next week.On Sept. 16, Yuk Yuk's Comedy Tour will make its fir...

WASHINGTON - An official at the Department of Homeland Security said in a whistle-blower complaint released Wednesday that he was pressured by agency leaders to suppress details in his intelligence re...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - With no Stampede to rely on this year, financially, the Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede are gritting their teeth and bearing their current low operational revenue.That's acco...

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...

RED DEER, AB - The second court appearance for the man charged in the murder of a Red Deer family doctor last month, much like the first, was nothing short of chaotic.Deng Mabiour made his second appe...

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...

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 ...