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Toronto police say woman severely hurt in 2018 van attack has died of her injuries
TORONTO - Police say a woman who was severely hurt in the 2018 Toronto van attack has died of her injuries in hospital. Toronto police say in a release that Amaresh Tessamariam, who was 65, died on Oc...
Nov 11, 2021
4 tied for lead in suspended 1st round of Houston Open
HOUSTON (AP) - Marc Leishman, Russell Henley, Talor Gooch and Luke List shared the lead Thursday in the suspended first round of the Houston Open, with List still on the course when darkness stopped p...
Nov 11, 2021
Canadian players say domestic women's league needed now more than ever
TORONTO - Bridget Carleton made the Transatlantic trip home from Israel for this week's Canadian women's basketball camp. The 24-year-old joined Israeli team Ramat HaSharon only three weeks ago, addin...
Nov 11, 2021
Stó:lō author Lee Maracle, a leading voice in Indigenous literature, dies at 71
VANCOUVER - St:l writer Lee Maracle, who championed the stories of Indigenous women to change the face of Canadian literature, has died. Family friend Michaela Washburnsays the acclaimed author, poet ...
Nov 11, 2021
Toronto Argonauts can cement top spot in East Division with home win over Tiger-Cats
This is pretty much how Ryan Dinwiddie saw his first regular season as a CFL head coach winding down. The Toronto Argonauts (8-4) host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (7-5) on Friday night at BMO Field. The A...
Nov 11, 2021
Under John Herdman, the Canadian men's team has become a winning band of brothers
John Herdman inherited a men's team ranked 94th in the world when he took over from the fired Octavio Zambrano in January 2018. And the extent of the challenge facing him became clear at his first cam...
Nov 11, 2021
Ottawa doctor pleads for help from the prime minister after death threat
OTTAWA - An Ottawa family doctor who organized mass COVID-19 vaccination clinics earlier this year has received a death threat and she is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to do more to protect hea...
Nov 11, 2021
VIDEO: Crowd gathers for Remembrance Day ceremonies held in downtown Nanaimo
NANAIMO - A crowd of over a hundred people gathered on the streets around the cenotaph at the Dallas Square Park in downtown Nanaimo on Thursday to pay their Remembrance Day respects.COVID-19 scaled d...
Nov 11, 2021
Struggling B.C. Lions still control their playoff destiny: coach
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Lions know what's at stake this week - win and the team's faint playoff hopes glimmer on, lose and they'll officially be snuffed out. "I don't have to be a salesman on this one, I...
Nov 11, 2021
Court temporarily delays release of Trump's Jan. 6 records
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of records sought by a U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection as the court considers an emergency requ...
Nov 11, 2021