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TORONTO - The 2020 Major League Baseball season is underway, ending months of anticipation for both sports enthusiasts and statheads. Baseball is arguably the most stat-driven among North America's ma...

TORONTO - The story of Perdita Felicien's devastating crash at the 2004 Athens Olympics is well-known, and was also one of the most difficult chapters of her book to write. But the foot injury that ke...

OTTAWA - An advocacy group alarmed by the pace of global warming is urging federal NDP and Green Party of Canada leaders to partner in the next general election in hopes of sending more climate-minded...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says a basic income program similar to one previously studied in Ontario could cut poverty rates nationally by almost half in 2022. The reductions are not eve...

MINNEAPOLIS - Officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd's neck - and was bearing down with most of his weight - the entire time the Black man was handcuffed behind his back and lying face-dow...

OTTAWA - The National Advisory Committee on Immunization says it is standing by its emergency recommendation to extend the delivery of second doses of COVID-19 vaccines up to four months. NACI's exper...

The We The North rallying cry had its horizons expanded when the Toronto Raptors temporarily relocated to Tampa, Fla. Now the NBA team is getting some Canadian company in the Sunshine State. The Toron...

Canada, on the strength of wins over Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, has moved up three places to No. 70 in the FIFA world rankings. The top six is unchanged with Belgium ahead of France, Brazil, Engl...

LONDON - The European Union's drug said Wednesday that it found a "possible link" between the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and a rare clotting disorder but recommended that vaccinations continue in...

LOS ANGELES - The sheriff for Los Angeles County plans to announce Wednesday what caused golf icon Tiger Woods to crash an SUV in Southern California earlier this year. The athlete was seriously injur...