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TORONTO — Peter Mansbridge was at the Toronto Raptors' NBA Championship celebration in Nathan Phillips Square in June 2019 when gunfire broke out near the crowd of about one million people.

Chris Stapleton, “Starting Over" (Mercury Records Nashville) To say Chris Stapleton is one of country music's best singers is to sell him short. He's one of the world's finest singers of any genre, period.

Rapper Lil Nas X is going back to the future — with Michael J. Fox. The Canadian actor appears in a new time-travelling teaser video for the singer's upcoming song "Holiday.

Another bestselling thriller by Canadian author Linwood Barclay is about to get the Hollywood treatment.

NEW YORK — A posthumous work by prize-winning historian Robert D. Richardson will come out in 2022. It centres on three major American thinkers he previously wrote books about: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and William James.

NEW YORK — This year’s Stand Up for Heroes fundraiser is going virtual for the first time and The Boss will once again be there. But so will a real prince.

James Duthie faced a big problem. After conducting dozens of interviews for a compilation of hockey stories — most of them previously known to only a select few — the award-winning broadcaster was stuck. The book needed a name.

NEW YORK — Keith Richards is so old-school that when he does his interviews — he'll do so from a landline. The Rolling Stones icon isn’t a fan of technology. Years ago he admitted to not owning an iPod when the device was most popular.

RIO DE JANEIRO — The sultry heat of the Southern Hemisphere’s summer will soon be rolling into Rio de Janeiro. In a normal year, the air would whisper into Dr. Wille Baracho's ear: Carnival is coming.

BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana judge has added two hours to a local rapper's house arrest curfew after he was reported jet skiing and enjoying the beach near his south Florida home.