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Toronto FC resumes full training after being sidelined by COVID-19 outbreak
Toronto FC has resumed full training after an outbreak of COVID-19 that sent players and staff home to self-isolate.The MLS club had nine positive cases, according to figures released by the city of T...
Mar 20, 2021
Advocates urge action as Montreal police confirm taxi slaying was conjugal violence
Montreal police are confirming the discovery of two bodies inside a taxi cab in northeastern part of the city Friday was the result of conjugal violence. Police say today that investigators believe a ...
Mar 20, 2021
Canadian star Alphonso Davies sent off in Bayern Munich win over Stuttgart
MUNICH - Canadian star Alphonso Davies was sent off Saturday in Bayern Munich's 4-0 win over VfB Stuttgart.The 20-year-old fullback from Edmonton was initially yellow-carded in the 11th minute after c...
Mar 20, 2021
Tory grassroots vote against putting line saying "climate change is real" into policy
OTTAWA - Efforts to get official Conservative policy to firmly state the party believes climate change is real have failed. The results of Saturday's vote defeating a motion that would have enshrined ...
Mar 20, 2021
Alexis Pinturault wins skiing's World Cup overall title
LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland - Rising to the moment on his 30th birthday, French skier Alexis Pinturault secured his first overall World Cup title on Saturday. Pinturault won a giant slalom giving him an ...
Mar 20, 2021
Slovakian Petra Vlhova wins skiing's World Cup overall title
LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland - Making history for her nation, Petra Vlhova won the women's World Cup overall title on Saturday as the first Slovakian to be crowned the best all-around skier. Vlhova needed...
Mar 20, 2021
Singh commits to cancel up to $20,000 in tuition in election campaign-style promise
OTTAWA - New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh is renewing his pitch to young voters, pledging that an NDP government would cancel up to $20,000 in tuition. Singh says that, if elected, he would also free...
Mar 20, 2021
Spectators from abroad to be barred from Tokyo Olympics
TOKYO - Spectators from abroad will be barred from the Tokyo Olympics when they open in four months, the IOC and local organizers said Saturday. The decision was announced after an online meeting of t...
Mar 20, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Tournament Capital needs to take a fresh look at herbicides
THERE ARE TWO THINGS I think of whenever I see a picture or news story originating in St. John's, Newfoundland.One is the bright multi-color paint jobs on the City's old buildings and the other is the...
Mar 20, 2021
Bus crash in central Sri Lanka kills 14 people, injures 31
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A passenger bus plunged off a road in central Sri Lanka on Saturday, killing 14 people and injuring more than 30. Police said the bus fell off a precipice near the town of Passara...
Mar 20, 2021
