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TORONTO – In the wake of a spate of high-profile doping cases, the UFC has announced plans to spend millions to expand drug testing of its 585 fighters.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Bill Cosby has postponed another comedy performance, this time in Rhode Island.
Number of the 20 acting nominees in Sunday’s Academy Awards who are non-white: 0
NEW YORK, N.Y. – A corrected version of the story is below:
TORONTO – Rory MacDonald has lost just twice in 10 years and learned from both setbacks.

TORONTO – Of the five films competing in the best animated feature category at the Oscars this weekend, three are from Canadian filmmakers.

CHARLOTTETOWN – A profile of Robert Ghiz, premier of Prince Edward Island.
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine – Almost every building was gravely damaged, nearly every window smashed in this Ukrainian town left unrecognizable by months of relentless shelling. Children played in the rubble where their homes once stood, while neighbours boiled water in open fires as temperatures dipped below freezing.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – J.K. Simmons offered heartfelt thanks in accepting the best supporting actor Oscar for “Whiplash,” and there wasn’t an agent or manager on his list.

TRENTON, N.J. – Bruce Sinofsky, an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker who gained prominence for his works that shined a spotlight on a child murder case in a small Arkansas town, has died. He was 58.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Legendary jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, who mentored Miles Davis and Quincy Jones and played in the orchestras of both Count Basie and Duke Ellington and on “The Tonight Show,” has died. He was 94.

List of winners at Sunday’s 87th annual Academy Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Canadian sound mixer Craig Mann has won an Oscar for his work on the intense drumming film “Whiplash.”

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Sean Penn’s remark about Mexican-born Oscar-winner Alejandro Inarritu’s immigration status at the end of Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast struck many as an insult, but the director says it was nothing more than a brutal joke between old friends.

TOKYO – Further restricting travel to the already isolated country, North Korea barred foreigners from one of its most popular tourist events — the annual Pyongyang marathon — because of concerns over the Ebola virus, travel agencies said Monday.

TORONTO – Former MP and Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow has taken a teaching job at Ryerson University.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Walt Disney Co. proved Sunday that its power doesn’t only come from Pixar.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issued a statement Monday acknowledging the complaints that Joan Rivers was not featured in the “In Memoriam” tribute during Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony.

TORONTO – Works inspired by Nobel Prize-winning writer Alice Munro and Mi’kmaq poet Rita Joe are among those in the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s new season.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – At age 94, Roger Angell keeps collecting honours.

LOS ANGELES, – Winning the Oscar is one thing. Actually accepting the trophy in front of a celeb-studded crowd, on live TV, is another.
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and a bevy of Chinese artists celebrated the Year of the Sheep at the New York Philharmonic’s fourth annual Chinese New Year concert.
TORONTO – So far, “The Amazing Race Canada” is having an amazing run at the Canadian Screen Awards.

MONTREAL – The Ultimate Fighting Championship is confident that UFC186 at the Bell Centre will be a success despite local star Georges St-Pierre being on sabbatical and with the sport in the midst of a doping controversy.