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BATON ROUGE, La. - Diagnosed with cancer, LSU’s live tiger mascot, Mike VI, won’t take the field during home football games this season but will remain in his habitat instead. The universi...
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TORONTO - A mentally ill man finally deported to Jamaica on Wednesday deserves compensation because his five years in immigration detention was inhumane, illegal and violated his rights, his lawyer to...
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MONTREAL - The colleagues of a Canadian-Iranian university professor jailed in Iran are urging governments to apply pressure as her detention enters a third month with no end in sight. Homa Hoodfar, w...
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GATINEAU, Que. - The big four TV service providers are defending how they rolled out new, trimmed-down TV packages earlier this year, denying in hearings Wednesday that they were being “paternal...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The International Olympic Committee promised to co-operate Wednesday with Brazilian authorities in the ticket scalping investigation that has targeted one of its executive boar...
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MOSCOW - Alex Ovechkin has been named Russia’s captain for the World Cup of Hockey. The Russian Ice Hockey Federation announced the decision Wednesday. It also says Evgeni Malkin and Pavel Datsy...
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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Samsung has released Canadian details for the 10-country recall of 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, following reports that some of their batteries have exploded or caug...
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TORONTO – A new poll suggests that about half of working Canadians would be hard-pressed to meet their financial obligations if their paycheque was delayed for a week. The survey released Wednes...
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PARIS - A criminal terrorist investigation has been opened in Paris following the discovery of a car parked near Notre Dame Cathedral with seven gas canisters and pages written in Arabic inside, prose...
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MADRID - Spain’s film academy has selected Pedro Almodovar’s film “Julieta” as its entry for best foreign language film at next year’s Oscars. It is the sixth time the di...
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