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Toronto Raptors can fill void in quiet playoffs for Canadian sports teams
Kawhi Leonard's buzzer-beating series winner on Sunday gave the Toronto Raptors a prime spot on sports radio and television highlight shows across the continent that night and the ...
May 14, 2019
Famed UFO researcher Stanton Friedman dead after half century of lectures
FREDERICTON - Stanton T. Friedman, nuclear physicist, lecturer and world-renowned devotee of extraterrestrial existence, has died at the age of 84. The famed UFO researcher died Monday at To...
May 14, 2019
Montreal's tam-tams could be 40 years old, but origin remains contested
MONTREAL - Every Sunday afternoon from spring through fall, hundreds of people gather on the slopes of Mount Royal for the tam-tams, a loosely organized weekly festival of drumming, dancing, and ...
May 14, 2019
Eastern Ontario communities reeling as Ottawa River hits historic high
OTTAWA - Lynne Lavictoire wants to go home. The only way she can get anywhere near it is by boat. For the time being, she's set up at a hotel where she is praying her home in La Passe, Ont. ...
May 14, 2019
Liberals push Tories to show climate-policy hand with climate-change motion
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is pushing Parliament to declare that Canada is in a "climate change emergency." Her new motion, which is to be debated Thursday, asks MPs to ...
May 14, 2019
A look at how the Raptors match up with the Bucks in their Eastern Conference showdown
TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors will play in the NBA Eastern Conference final for just the second time in team history when they visit the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday to kick off a best-of-se...
May 14, 2019
Dale Hunter to coach Canada at 2020 world junior hockey championship
CALGARY - Dale Hunter will be Canada's head coach at the 2020 world junior hockey championship. The head coach of the OHL's London Knights will have Andre Tourigny of the Ottawa 67's and Mitch Lo...
May 14, 2019
Freeland to meet Lighthizer in Washington to push for tariff removal
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is bound for Washington to meet with Trump trade czar Robert Lighthizer in a renewed push to get punitive steel and aluminum tariffs lifted. The mee...
May 14, 2019
Canada puts Tokyo 2020 Olympics women's rugby berth on hold after loss to U.S.
LANGFORD, B.C. - Canada's bid to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is on hold after a fifth-place finish at the HSBC Canada Sevens Series at Westhills Stadium. With the top four teams in the season ...
May 14, 2019
Mother of child who died angry anti-vaccine page used girl's image on Facebook
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The mother of a young Newfoundland girl who died last summer is furious her daughter's altered image was used online as part of an anti-vaccination campaign...
May 14, 2019
