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Former NHL player Akim Aliu says he believes people deserve second chances, and that includes a coach who allegedly used racial slurs against him. Aliu said Thursday he's fine with Bill Peters re...

OTTAWA - A inmate who has serious health problems and fears COVID-19 hopes to hear from the federal prison service today whether he will be let out of custody. Otherwise, Derrick Snow's case is s...

TORONTO - Former Blue Jays executive Pat Gillick remembers former Toronto second baseman Damaso Garcia as a "very good player and a very good person." Garcia, a two-time all-star who helped the young ...

TORONTO - This weekend was to have been Sonny Bill Williams' coming-out party in Toronto, with the former All Blacks star slated to make his Canadian debut for the Wolfpack before an expected sel...

NEW YORK - The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation has launched a $1 million emergency fund to support freelance New York City-area jazz musicians during the coronavirus pandemic. The organization'...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - An inmate has died from an apparent complication related to COVID-19 at a prison in B.C. Correctional Services of Canada says it is the first death from the novel coronavi...

NEW YORK - Brian Dennehy, the burly actor who started in films as a macho heavy and later in his career won plaudits for his stage work in plays by William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O'Neill a...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Federation of Agriculture says Ottawa should make the industry a priority during the COVID-19 pandemic, second to the health of Canadians, to ensure the country's food supply. Pr...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The City of Brooks is confirming multiple cases of COVID-19 at the JBS Food Canada plant in that city and one case among the staff of Sunrise Gardens continuing care centre.A releas...

The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will not hear the sentencing appeal of a student who killed four people and injured seven others in a mass shooting in La Loche, Sask., in 2016. The rul...