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DONGGUAN, China - Catherine Traer and Thomas Scrubb were working out last summer on the basketball court Traer's dad Rick had built in the family's backyard. The two players work out there regularly b...

DONGGUAN, China - Nick Nurse could have been relaxing and recharging after the Toronto Raptors' heady and historic - and long - NBA championship run. Instead, the 52-year-old Iowan was on th...

DONGGUAN, China - Jonas Valanciunas is putting his trust in former teammate Kyle Lowry. The longtime Raptors forward, who was shipped to Memphis at the NBA trade deadline this past season,&n...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer sought Thursday to put a pin in the question of whether his party would reopen debates on abortion or same-sex marriage, blaming the Liberals for t...

OTTAWA - Two companies have agreed to pay almost $450,000 in fines after admitting they made illegal political donations to both the federal Liberals and Conservatives between 2004 and 2009. Grou...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A rocket at an Iranian space centre that was to conduct a satellite launch criticized by the U.S. apparently exploded on its launch pad Thursday, satellite images show, s...

VENICE, Italy - Joaquin Phoenix is having a hard time defining the Joker, but then again, he doesn't really want to. The actor spent eight months exploring how a struggling stand-up comedian named Art...

BURNABY, B.C. - NDP leader Jagmeet Singh was nominated Friday night as his party's candidate for the B.C. riding of Burnaby South in the October federal election. Surrounded by family, supporters and ...

NEW YORK - Coco Gauff is on another captivating run at a Grand Slam tournament. Now she has get through defending champion Naomi Osaka to continue it. The 15-year-old Gauff and the top-ranked Osaka me...

OTTAWA, Kan. - The oldest continuously operating movie theatre in the world might figure to be in New York or Hollywood. How about Kansas? The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Ottawa, some 50 miles...