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Montreal Impact acquire striker Mason Toye from Minnesota FC
MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact have a new attacking piece, acquiring striker Mason Toye from Minnesota FC on Thursday. Toye has seven goals and four assists in 42 career Major League Soccer game...
Oct 01, 2020
Anderson shines, Braves shut out Reds again to sweep series
ATLANTA - Ian Anderson dazzled in another shutout performance for Atlanta, and the Braves won a playoff series for the first time in almost two decades by sweeping the light-hitting Cincinnati Reds wi...
Oct 01, 2020
Infrastructure bank to invest $10 billion in priority areas for pandemic recovery
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is promising to finally spend $10 billion that has sat in the accounts of its infrastructure financing agency for years, hoping to create thousands of post-pandemic job...
Oct 01, 2020
Alberta's Tanner Boser to face former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski
Alberta's Tanner (The Bulldozer) Boser will face former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei (The Pit Bull) Arlovski on Nov. 7. UFC officials confirmed the matchup, saying a location will be announced at a...
Oct 01, 2020
Desmond inquiry: No word on when fatality inquiry in Nova Scotia will resume
HALIFAX - Nearly seven months after the COVID-19 pandemic halted an inquiry into why a former soldier killed three family members and himself in Nova Scotia, there is still no indication of when it wi...
Oct 01, 2020
Promise of hybrid sittings clears way for Senate to deal with worker aid bill
OTTAWA - The government's representative in the Senate is promising to introduce a motion Friday to hold hybrid sittings of the upper house during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sen. Marc Gold's promise clear...
Oct 01, 2020
Colouring books educate youth about suicide
A group that works with inner city youth has donated 27 boxes of colouring books to Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC), one box for each school with the PAGC's member communities.The Kookum and Kids c...
Oct 01, 2020
Push to bring coronavirus vaccines to the poor faces trouble
LONDON - An ambitious humanitarian project to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the world's poorest people is facing potential shortages of money, cargo planes, refrigeration and vaccines themselves - a...
Oct 01, 2020
Check's in the mail? Trump doling out aid before election
CHICAGO - It's almost as if he's writing a personal check. In recent days, President Donald Trump has promised millions of Medicare recipients that - thanks to him - they'll soon be getting an "incred...
Oct 01, 2020
Trump Proud Boys remark echoes Charlottesville
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday tried to walk back his refusal to outright condemn a far right fascist group during his debate with Democrat Joe Biden, but the inflammatory moment was...
Oct 01, 2020