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Online platforms like Netflix and Spotify may end up spending more than $800 million on Canadian content over the next three years under a series of legislative changes the federal government proposed...

Willie O'Ree was 14 or 15 years old when he broke through his first barrier. He didn't realize it at the time. He just wanted a haircut. Before becoming the NHL's first Black player, O'Ree asked a whi...

OTTAWA - Canada Post is using three colourful and festive scenes painted by Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis for its holiday season stamps this year. The agency announced the choice of the works by ...

NEW YORK - Gospel star Rance Allen, whose Rance Allen Group drew upon contemporary sounds for such 1970s hits as "Ain't No Need of Crying" and "I Belong To You" and anticipated such crossover gospel a...

ARLINGTON, Texas - Nikki McKibbin, a singer from Texas best known for her third place finish in the first season of American Idol, has died. She was 42. McKibbin's husband, Craig Sadler, confirmed her...

NEW YORK - Julia Wiggin was still shivering after running out to hang up the weekend's marquee - "Ghostbusters," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" - at her Northfield Drive-in near Hinsdale, New Hampshire. "I...

LONDON - Johnny Depp lost his high-stakes libel case Monday against The Sun tabloid newspaper for labelling him a "wife beater," as a British judge said he believed the actor had abused ex-wife Amber ...

NEW YORK - Television networks are adding experts in election law to their election night coverage teams so they're prepared to explain legal challenges or irregularities that may come up during the v...

LONDON - Sean Connery, the charismatic Scottish actor who rose to international superstardom as the suave secret agent James Bond and then abandoned the role to carve out an Oscar-winning career in ot...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, who stars in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm," donated $100,000 to the church of a woman who believed she was taking part in a documentary but instead was being fe...