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Toronto FC looks to add comforts of home in Florida by keeping families close
TORONTO - Released from lockdown and back training again after an outbreak of COVID-19, Toronto FC leaves for Florida on Wednesday to set up shop in the Orlando area for the MLS season. Pandemic-relat...
Mar 22, 2021

Toronto Blue Jays reliever Kirby Yates sidelined with arm injury
DUNEDIN, Fla. - The Toronto Blue Jays have lost another pitcher to injury. The team says right-hander Kirby Yates has been diagnosed with a flexor-pronator strain in his right arm and is expected to m...
Mar 22, 2021

Elgin Baylor, silky-smooth Lakers Hall of Famer, dies at 86
LOS ANGELES - Elgin Baylor, the Lakers' 11-time NBA All-Star who soared through the 1960s with a high-scoring style of basketball that became the model for the modern player, died Monday. He was 86. T...
Mar 22, 2021

Trudeau 'appalled' by homophobic graffiti outside Ottawa mayor's home
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's "appalled" that homophobic graffiti was painted on the road in front of Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson's home over the weekend.Trudeau says in a tweet that th...
Mar 22, 2021

Meng's lawyer urges judge to turf Mountie's claim that he didn't share info with FBI
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou says a retired Mountie's refusal to testify in the extradition case adds weight to an argument that the officer shared information about her devi...
Mar 22, 2021

Oshawa, Ont., rowhouse fire leaves four people unaccounted for
OSHAWA, Ont. - A fast-moving fire that tore through an Oshawa, Ont., townhome left four people unaccounted for on Monday as weeping family and friends feared the worst for their loved ones. Authoritie...
Mar 22, 2021

Raiders hope to buck Broncos and get back in win column
Hockey games aren't played on paper, they're played on the ice. But with that being said, the Prince Albert Raiders (2-1-1-1) have stacks of files in their favour as they roll into their Monday 4 p.m....
Mar 22, 2021

La Ronge breaks nearly 100-year-old heat record
A stretch of warm weather in La Ronge last week broke temperature records, including one set nearly 100 years ago. According to Environment and Climate Change Canada Meteorologist Terri Lang, the curr...
Mar 22, 2021

Injunction against quarantine hotel policy denied, constitutional hearing to go ahead
TORONTO - A constitutional rights advocacy group has lost its bid for an injunction against the federal government's quarantine hotel policy designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Canadian Co...
Mar 22, 2021

Gabriel Dumont Institute announces new CEO
A Saskatchewan Mtis and nhiyaw writer whose work appears in literary magazines and anthologies across Canada is the new chief executive officer for the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and A...
Mar 22, 2021