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Vancouver Island again escapes new COVID-19 cases
NANAIMO - The number of COVID-19 cases on Vancouver Island remains at 135. A joint statement from provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and health minister Adrian Dix announced 21 new COVID-19 ca...
Jul 15, 2020
WE Charity restructuring operations after being centre of sole-sourced contract
TORONTO - WE Charity is restructuring its operations weeks after its sole-sourced contract with the government shone a spotlight on the organization at the centre of an ethics investigation of the pri...
Jul 15, 2020
Montoyo says Jays have options to fill hole in rotation from injury to Anderson
Toronto Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo says he is not going to rush pitcher Chase Anderson back to action. The Blue Jays announced Sunday that Anderson was day-to-day with an oblique injury he suff...
Jul 15, 2020
Alberta Mountie gets probation for in-custody assault on Indigenous man
HIGH PRAIRIE, Alta. - A Mountie has been given 15 months probation for assaulting an Indigenous man shortly after his arrest in northern Alberta. A judge convicted Const. Licio Soares, an ei...
Jul 15, 2020
Jets sniper Patrik Laine working to get back up to speed after long layoff
Patrik Laine said back in May there was a good chance he'd look "terrible" if the NHL resumed its season this summer. Like most players locked down during the COVID-19 pandemic, th...
Jul 15, 2020
RCMP say someone left needle-filled lemons in Port Coquitlam, B.C., park
PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. - Mounties say they've had reports of two lemons full of sewing needles found tied to bushes along a trail in Port Coquitlam, B.C. The first lemon was found June 22 tied with twin...
Jul 15, 2020
Ex-CFL player gets 3 months for college admissions scam in United States
A former Canadian Football League player was sentenced Wednesday to three months in prison for hiring someone take the SATs in place of his two sons. David Sidoo, who played professional football for ...
Jul 15, 2020
Gasol: It's pretty simple - it's being more responsible as human beings"
Marc Gasol spent part of the summer of 2018 on a rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea, helping pluck terrified people from the water, migrants fleeing Libya for the shores of Europe. Gasol was vo...
Jul 15, 2020
Canada's Sloan making most of time off to improve on slow start to PGA season
Although it's been a strange PGA Tour season with rescheduled events after a three-month break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Roger Sloan has been grateful for the opportunities it's presented. Sloan, ...
Jul 15, 2020
Huawei hopeful it can provide 5G to Canada despite, Trump, Five Eyes pressure
OTTAWA - Huawei Canada says it is collateral damage in the Trump administration's trade war with China and remains hopeful that it might still be able to sell next-generation internet equipment to Can...
Jul 15, 2020