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Quebec man credited with saving drowning eight-year-old boy in Massachusetts
MONTREAL - A Quebec tourist is being credited with saving an eight-year-old boy who was swept away by an undertow and nearly drowned at a beach in southeastern Massachusetts. The W...
Jul 30, 2019
A star is born at the Tour: 22-year-old champion Egan Bernal
PARIS - The skies over Paris were yellow, ignited by a glorious golden sunset. The partying fans' shirts were yellow, Colombians making themselves at home on the Champs-Elysees. But the yellow that co...
Jul 30, 2019
AP Source: Ellis steps down as women's national team coach
A person with knowledge of the situation says U.S. national team coach Jill Ellis is stepping down after leading the team to back-to-back Women's World Cup titles. The person spoke on the condition of...
Jul 30, 2019
Woman set to replace Puerto Rico's governor doesn't want job
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The woman who is supposed to replace Puerto Rico's embattled governor announced Sunday that she doesn't want the job as the U.S. territory reels from political crisis. Justice ...
Jul 30, 2019
Switching sides: Jays trade Sogard across diamond to Rays
TORONTO - Eric Sogard wasn't quite sure who to root for in Sunday's game between Toronto and Tampa Bay. Originally in Toronto's lineup as the right fielder, the veteran utilityman was scratched about ...
Jul 30, 2019
Therapy garden featured at Stony Rapids women's shelter
The new women's shelter set to open in Stony Rapids this September will include a therapy garden for clients. "We've had a lot of great success with our gardening projects and they've really had a goo...
Jul 30, 2019 This therapy garden is located at the soon-to-open women's shelter in Stony Rapids. (submitted photo/Pamela Huerto)
CHL tabs NBA Canada executive as first full-time president
TORONTO - Longtime NBA Canada executive Dan MacKenzie has been named the first full-time president of the Canadian Hockey League. Ontario Hockey League commissioner David Branch had been also serving ...
Jul 30, 2019
Statistics Canada takes second look at ethnicity question on census
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada officials estimate the number of people identifying as Jewish in the 2016 census could have been double what it was if not for a small change on the questionnaire. The numbe...
Jul 30, 2019
Bankruptcy claims on the rise in the province
Saskatchewan residents are struggling to make ends meet and a new MNP Consumer Debt Index highlights that.In a year-over-year comparison, the number of people who filed for bankruptcy in the first qua...
Jul 30, 2019 The stigma of bankruptcy is stopping a third of Saskatchewan residents from
getting help. (114404596 Piotr Trojanowski dreamstime.com)
Lafreniere trying to block out NHL draft talk as Canada begins world junior prep
PLYMOUTH, Mich. - Alexis Lafreniere has allowed his mind to wander, if ever so slightly, beyond what's right in front of him. And it's hard to blame the always-smiling 17-year-old phenom. Lafreniere i...
Jul 30, 2019