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Toronto FC's Alejandro Pozuelo joins select company with MLS Best XI
Alejandro Pozuelo joined some select Toronto FC company Monday when he was named to the 2019 Major League Soccer Best XI. The Spanish playmaker is the fifth TFC player to be accorded the honour, along...
Oct 28, 2019
Reports of mushroom poisonings on the rise: BC Centre for Disease Control
VANCOUVER - The BC Centre for Disease Control says mushroom poisonings are on the rise and it is urging foragers to use extreme caution. It says its drug and poison information centre r...
Oct 28, 2019
MAP: Thefts from motor vehicles — week of October 21, 2019
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops saw another three dozen-plus reports of thefts from motor vehicles last week.According to Kamloops RCMP, there were 39 total reports, including incidents in each of these neighbour...
Oct 28, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Los Angeles wildfire threatens the homes of the stars
LOS ANGELES - A wildfire swept through the star-studded hills of Los Angeles early Monday, destroying several large homes and forcing LeBron James and thousands of others to flee in the middle of the ...
Oct 28, 2019
GINTA: Helping youth succeed makes for a better society
I JUST READ AN UPLIFTING NEWS STORY. It was about the tuition waiver program for former youth in care. About 1,119 young people got a fresh start in life due to the program. I can only imagine how emp...
Oct 28, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
B.C. to update emergency program law to improve disaster responses, supports
VICTORIA - Devastating wildfires and floods and the prospect of more to come has caused the B.C. government to look at updating its emergency management law. Public Safety Minister Mike...
Oct 28, 2019
Guinean-Canadians in Montreal protest possible third presidential term
MONTREAL - Alpha Diallo arrived in Canada from Guinea in 2009, a year before that country's president won his first election and raised hopes amid the nation's sole democratic transition of ...
Oct 28, 2019
Banks sets Hamilton reception record as Tiger-Cats down Alouettes 38-26
MONTREAL - They call him Brandon "Speedy" Banks for a reason. Banks caught three touchdowns on 201 yards to lead the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to a 38-26 victory over the Montreal Alouettes on Saturday afte...
Oct 28, 2019
Multiple homicides, shooting ramp up pressure on Winnipeg police resources
WINNIPEG - The police chief in Manitoba's capital says a deadly weekend has strained resources as investigators deal with three homicides and a shooting that left four people, including an infant, in ...
Oct 28, 2019
RCMP, feds pressed to find missing reservist with alleged links to neo-Nazis
OTTAWA - A Manitoba army reservist accused of harbouring ties to neo-Nazis remains unaccounted for two months after he was first reported missing. Master Cpl. Patrik Mathews disappeared at t...
Oct 28, 2019
