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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...

The Resource Centre for Suicide Prevention is calling it good news in a year filled with uncertainty.An anonymous donor has given the Centre over $25,000.The money will go towards the Gryphon Youth Gr...

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 ...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government says it will spend $20 million on end-of-life care. Health Minister Tyler Shandro says the money is a first step in improving access to palliative care for patients a...

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...

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...

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...

NEW YORK - If you're very lucky, one day Chick Corea will make your portrait. And because he's a formidable musician, it will be a portrait entirely in musical notes. Corea likes inviting volunteers o...