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Southwest Airlines will begin charging customers a fee to check bags, abandoning a decades-long practice that executives had described last fall as key to differentiating the budget carrier from its rivals.

OTTAWA — Mark Carney's victory in the Liberal leadership race put the final nail in the coffin for Ottawa's controversial plan to hike the inclusion rate on capital gains.

PARIS (AP) — At Miu Miu, the little sister brand of Miuccia Prada , the feminine wasn’t just celebrated — it was deconstructed, reconfigured and worn with a wink.

In the new horror movie “Opus,” we are introduced to Alfred Moretti, the biggest pop star of the '90s, with 38 No. 1 hits and albums as big as “Thriller,” “Hotel California” and “Nebraska.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025-26 season will include five productions that first appeared elsewhere and one revival, all picked by the previous general director, Anthony Freud.

NEW YORK (AP) — “Davidsen Goes out with a Bang,” read the headline in Broadway World’s review of the Metropolitan Opera revival of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” And indeed Lise Davidsen is in a sense “going out.

Provincial police say they've charged two people from Mississauga, Ont., after seizing more than 4,000 illegal cannabis plants in the Niagara region. Police say officers responded to a location on Highway 3 in Wainfleet on Feb.

LONDON (AP) — A 16th-century painting stolen more than 50 years ago has been found — and is now at the center of a custody battle between a widow in England and a small Italian museum.

TORONTO — Karin Martin couldn't sleep last Sunday night after reading a letter from Toronto Public Health that drowned her with worry.

The embattled Hot Docs festival has announced the first batch of films that will screen in its special presentations program this year. A personal doc called “The Nest” from Canada’s Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh will make its world premiere.