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Montreal bus and subway services disrupted as transit maintenance workers strike
MONTREAL - Montreal's transit maintenance workers have started a nine-day strike that is causing widespread disruption in the network. The 2,400 workers began striking today after more than a year of ...
Jun 09, 2025
National Holocaust Monument vandalized with 'FEED ME' written in red paint
OTTAWA - The National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa was found vandalized this morning with the words "FEED ME" scrawled across it in red paint. Red paint was splashed on other portions of the monument ...
Jun 09, 2025
Dort, Mathurin families unite for Montreal North community during NBA Finals
MONTREAL - Luguentz Dort and Bennedict Mathurin are going head-to-head on the court - but off it, their families are on the same team. While Dort's Oklahoma City Thunder battled Mathurin's Indiana Pac...
Jun 09, 2025
Tropical Storm Barbara becomes a hurricane
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Barbara has strengthened into a hurricane, the first of the eastern Pacific hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Monday swells generated by the sto...
Jun 09, 2025
Ontario sports coach charged with sexual assault of young person
A 58-year-old sports coach from Markham, Ont., is facing sexual assault charges after numerous alleged assaults over nearly a decade. York Regional Police say they began investigating last month when ...
Jun 09, 2025
Defence lawyers begin final submissions in hockey players' sex assault trial
LONDON - Defence lawyers representing five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team have begun their final submissions to the judge overseeing the players' sexual assault trial. Prosecutors...
Jun 09, 2025
Boisson soars 296 places in rankings, Sinner keeps top spot despite French Open loss to Alcaraz
PARIS (AP) - Los Boisson, the revelation of the French Open, has rocketed 296 places up the WTA rankings after her fairy-tale run at Roland-Garros. The Frenchwoman, who was 361st before making it to t...
Jun 09, 2025
Through 2 Finals games, it's clear that the moment isn't too big for OKC's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
The moment is clearly not too big for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. These are his first NBA Finals. It's hard to remember that sometimes. The Oklahoma City Thunder star - and NBA MVP - just had a pair of d...
Jun 09, 2025
Palestinians say Israel and its allies fired on crowd near Gaza aid site. Hospital says 6 killed
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinians say Israeli forces and allied local gunmen fired toward a crowd heading to an Israeli- and U.S.-supported food distribution center in the Gaza Strip early M...
Jun 09, 2025
NIH scientists go public to criticize Trump's deep cuts in public health research
WASHINGTON (AP) - In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. "Dissent, he said, "is the ve...
Jun 09, 2025
