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Miss America pageant leaving Atlantic City for Connecticut
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - There she is. Here she isn't. Miss America is leaving Atlantic City for the second time, trading one casino town for another in a move that caps a whirlwind of change at the near...
Jul 23, 2019
'Art of Self-Defence' examines, satirizes toxic masculinity
LOS ANGELES - Director Riley Stearns says he didn't realize he was making a perfect movie for 2019 when he started writing "The Art of Self-Defence " four years ago. But his darkly comedic riff on tox...
Jul 23, 2019
Lametti swats back at Ontario attorney general over legal aid spending
OTTAWA - Federal Justice Minister David Lametti says the Ontario government's rejecting shared responsibility for legal aid as an "excuse for spending cuts" will leave many of the province's most vuln...
Jul 23, 2019
Artists' work reduced to ash after fire destroys shared Winnipeg studio
WINNIPEG - Some Winnipeg artists have lost nearly their entire life's work in an aggressive fire that reduced a shared studio space to rubble and ash. Performance artist Shawna Dempsey was o...
Jul 23, 2019
A year later, ceremony commemorates victims of the Danforth shooting
TORONTO - The names of the two people killed in a shooting in Toronto's Greektown last year were read aloud in a ceremony meant to honour their memory Sunday afternoon. Those gathered held a...
Jul 23, 2019
2nd person announces primary challenge to US Sen. Markey
BOSTON - A business executive who spent his childhood in what he calls unstable, cruel and at times violent foster homes announced a primary challenge Tuesday to Democratic Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Edw...
Jul 23, 2019
Charleston Hughes, Matt Nichols and Shaq Evans named CFL top performers
TORONTO - Saskatchewan defensive lineman Charleston Hughes and receiver Shaq Evans and Winnipeg quarterback Matt Nichols are the CFL top performers for Week 6. Hughes sacked Mike Reilly three tim...
Jul 23, 2019
Two teens thought to be missing now suspects in 3 northern B.C. deaths
VANCOUVER - RCMP say two British Columbia teenagers who were first thought to be missing are now considered suspects in the deaths of three people in northern B.C. Sgt. Janelle Shoihet says 19-year-ol...
Jul 23, 2019
Two teens thought to be missing now suspects in 3 northern B.C. deaths
VANCOUVER - RCMP say two British Columbia teenagers who were first thought to be missing are now considered suspects in the deaths of three people in northern B.C. Sgt. Janelle Shoihet says 19-year-ol...
Jul 23, 2019
As death toll rises, scientists struggle to track massive, elusive right whales
HALIFAX - They are among the world's largest creatures, but the planet's 400 remaining North Atlantic right whales are remarkably elusive. Though adult members of this critically endangered speci...
Jul 23, 2019
