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Raptors forward Pascal Siakam will be sidelined with strained adductor muscle
Toronto Raptors forward Pascal Siakam is expected to miss at least two weeks with a strained right adductor muscle, the team said Sunday. Siakam suffered the injury when he slipped during the third qu...
Nov 06, 2022
COLLINS: No proper winter tires? Get the hell off the road!
NOTHING IS MORE FRUSTRATING than the first snowfall of the season. Except for the number of idiots who don't have proper snow tires on. The first snowfall is always tricky. First covering on the dry p...
Nov 06, 2022
Bayern says Davies' World Cup for Canada 'not at risk'
MUNICH (AP) - Bayern Munich says Alphonso Davies' injury is not as bad as initially feared and that his participation in the World Cup for Canada is "not at risk." The 22-year-old Davies suffered what...
Nov 06, 2022
It's the democracy, stupid: midterm stakes for Canadians are much the same as in U.S.
WASHINGTON - It's not every day that a Canadian prime minister gets name-checked in a political debate in the United States. But in a hyper-polarized midterm election season, it's not surprising it wo...
Nov 06, 2022
Mystery flag to mark 80th anniversary of disastrous Dieppe raid on Remembrance Day
OTTAWA - Legend has that when Canadian troops stormed ashore under a hail of German gunfire at the French port of Dieppe in August 1942, one of the hundreds who eventually died in the attack was carry...
Nov 06, 2022
Monitors say 6 killed in Syria's shelling of tent settlement
IDLIB, Syria (AP) - Syrian government forces shelled tent settlements housing families displaced by the country's conflict in the rebel-held northwest early Sunday, killing at least six people and wou...
Nov 06, 2022
Tanzania: Small passenger plane crashes into Lake Victoria
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A small passenger plane crashed Sunday morning into Lake Victoria on approach to an airport in Tanzania. Local authorities said 26 of the 43 people on board the Precision Air fli...
Nov 06, 2022
Climate Changed: How homebuilders and residents are adapting to a warming world
VANCOUVER - The two-storey family home with a classic design and wooden cladding blends in with its neighbours, but its thick, insulated walls, airtightness, solar panels, heat pump and highly efficie...
Nov 06, 2022
B.C. diver shakes a leg with giant Pacific octopus, in 'mind-blowing' encounter
CAMPBELL RIVER - British Columbia scuba diver Andrea Humphreys' new acquaintance greeted her more like a long-lost friend, with extended arms, then a full-body hug, and finally a kiss, lip to tentacle...
Nov 06, 2022
Doctors, nurses call for action on crumbling care, health ministers meet in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - A family doctor who works in British Columbia and Alberta says patients who don't get the care they need before ending up in overburdened emergency rooms should be a focus for quick action...
Nov 06, 2022
