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Canada's basketball community mourns Kobe Bryant after helicopter crash
In his 40 years in basketball, nothing Chuck Swirksy has seen compared to Kobe Bryant's performance against the Toronto Raptors. The broadcaster reminisced about Bryant's 81-point game against th...
Jan 26, 2020

NFL’s Saints fight to shield emails in Catholic abuse crisis
NEW ORLEANS - The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman...
Jan 26, 2020

AP source: Ex-NBA star Kobe Bryant dies in helicopter crash
LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, ...
Jan 26, 2020

AP source: Ex-NBA star Kobe Bryant dies in helicopter crash
LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, ...
Jan 26, 2020

CP NewsAlert: L.A. Lakers great Kobe Bryant dies in helicopter crash
CALABASAS, Calif. - Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash the Associated Press has confirmed. He was 41. More coming. The Canadian Press
Jan 26, 2020

At least 18 dead, hundreds hurt as quake hits eastern Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked a sparsely-populated part of eastern Turkey on Friday, killing at least 18 people, injuring more than 500 and leaving some 30 trapped in the wreckage...
Jan 26, 2020

China, other 'autocrats' no fans of Canada's UN Security Council bid: expert
OTTAWA - The ill will of autocratic countries like China, and some worthy head-on competitors, should compel the Trudeau government to campaign harder for a seat on the United Nations S...
Jan 26, 2020

Get coronavirus information from credible sources: public health officials
TORONTO - Even before Canada's first coronavirus case was announced in Toronto over the weekend, Canada's medical community was on alert - and not just for the disease. Public health officials sa...
Jan 26, 2020

Canadian Lunar New Year celebrations dampened by coronavirus worries
VANCOUVER - Lunar New Year celebrations are set to get underway in Vancouver's Chinatown late Sunday morning, while at least one other event in the Lower Mainland has been cancelled over fears of coro...
Jan 26, 2020
Coronavirus patient showed mild symptoms on flight
OTTAWA - The first Canadian patient diagnosed with a novel form of coronavirus began showing signs of illness on the plane that brought him back from the disease's epicentre., Canada's Chief Public He...
Jan 26, 2020