National Lifestyle

DUNCAN, B.C. — Vancouver Island's Cowichan Valley Regional District wants to know who is willing to take a shot at owning the world's largest hockey stick.

An obituary that originally moved Dec. 2 may have left the impression that musician Chad Allan was a co-founding member of Bachman-Turner Overdrive. In fact, he was a co-founding member of the band that later became Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

Celebrated musician Chad Allan, who carved a place in Canadian rock music history for his part in the founding of iconic bands the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has died. He was 80.

Trailblazing playwright David Yee has been awarded this year's $75,000 Siminovitch Prize for his body of work dedicated to uplifting Asian Canadian voices in theatre.

TORONTO — The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and Radio-Canada will eliminate about 600 jobs and an additional 200 vacancies will go unfilled as it contends with a $125-million budget shortfall.

OTTAWA — The top executive at Sobeys asserted on Monday that Canada has one of the most competitive grocery retail sectors on the planet — even as Canadians continue to feel the bite of higher prices.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Paul Giamatti made “Sideways” with Alexander Payne, he stayed in a little house in the middle of a large vineyard. At the end of a day of shooting, he would drive home in darkness, with the California hills around him.

MONTREAL — Quebec's prosecution service says it has abandoned criminal charges against Vincenzo Guzzo, CEO of a large independent movie theatre chain and investor on CBC Television's "Dragons' Den.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathan Majors listened silently, head-cocked and eyes down, as a Manhattan prosecutor and his defense attorney offered competing accounts of a violent confrontation in the backseat of a car that led to assault charges against the fi

LONDON (AP) — Oxford University Press has named “rizz″ as its word of the year, highlighting the popularity of a term used by Generation Z to describe someone’s ability to attract or seduce another person.