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Before team president Masai Ujiri placed the lucky toonie in the Raptors' new practice floor, the team president held it aloft and said: "This is for the Tampa Bay Raptaneers." The joke was a referenc...

BOSTON - A Hindu activist is calling on luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton to pull a yoga mat made partly from cowhide leather, calling it "hugely insensitive." Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Soc...

OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada and Britain have agreed not to raise tariffs on each other's goods when the United Kingdom leaves the European Union at the end of the mont...

WASHINGTON - A bill to ban race-day doping of horses and set national medication and track-safety standards for the horse-racing industry is nearing the finish line. Lawmakers gave final approval to t...

WASHINGTON - A bill to ban race-day doping of horses and set national medication and track-safety standards for the horse-racing industry is nearing the finish line. Lawmakers gave final approval to t...

SURREY, B.C. - Plastic shopping bags, foam cups and takeout containers should soon be banned in Surrey, B.C. Councillors have adopted a bylaw that would seek provincial permission to ban single-use pl...

CACHE CREEK, B.C. - RCMP say the truck and trailer used in the brazen heist of a jade boulder in Cache Creek have been found - but there is still no sign of the huge rock.The boulder was taken from Ca...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has added $55 million to a fund to help tourism businesses struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tourism Minister Melanie Mark says the additional cash f...

QUEBEC - An external investigation into the deaths of two Quebec boys is calling for in-depth reform of the province's youth protection system and the law that governs it. Dr. Lionel Carmant, Quebec's...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The provincial government is opening a 20-bed, temporary emergency response centre to serve the homeless population in Williams Lake.According to a news release, the shelter will...