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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Members of the Grammy-winning rock band Portugal. The Man are stepping into a banned book controversy in their Alaska home town.

TORONTO — A springtime trickle of Manitobans entering Ontario to visit their lakeside cottages alarmed Kenora Mayor Daniel Reynard a month ago.

TORONTO — A number of major Ontario summer music festivals were cancelled on Friday due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jake LaMotta was a straight-ahead brawler, so determined to wreak havoc every time he entered the boxing ring that he handed the great Sugar Ray Robinson his first loss.

TORONTO — Chinese-Canadian actor Simu Liu is deeply proud of his heritage and likes to champion it whenever he can.

LOS ANGELES — As the youngest member of his family, Brad Bird would often get dragged along to films that may have been a little out of his depth for a child, like “2001: A Space Odyssey.

CAIRO — At his Cairo apartment, located just off a busy road along the Nile River, Ashraf el-Helw, a third-generation Egyptian lion trainer, prepares for a show with his big cats. Instead of a circus ring, his living room is his stage.

NEW YORK — During a normal week, fitness instructor Jason Tran would dart among grueling group spin classes, high-intensity interval training sessions at boutique studios in Manhattan and an occasional one-on-one workout with private clients.

JUNEAU, Alaska — Nearly 70% of this summer’s Alaska cruise ship voyages have been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with hundreds of thousands of expected passengers staying away from the staple of the state's tourism industry.

A major study from the United States suggesting an experimental drug could shorten COVID-19 recovery time is stirring up optimism, but Canadian infectious disease experts caution it's too early to know how effective it is. The U.S.