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Talk of LNG as clean fuel alternative risks losing sight of climate goals: experts
WASHINGTON - The progressive side of Canada's fossil-fuel energy debate is pushing back against the prospect of relying on natural gas as a path to a carbon-free future. High prices and a spike in dem...
Apr 16, 2023
Russian billionaire couple claims Canadian sanctions are unjustified and unreasonable
Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko and his wife Aleksandra want to be taken off Canada's sanctions list, claiming in Federal Court they've been wrongfully labelled as "elites and close associates"...
Apr 16, 2023
Quebec judge grants injunction halting eviction of homeless camp living under highway
MONTREAL - Quebec's Superior Court has granted a temporary 10-day injunction to halt the dismantling and displacement of a long-standing homeless encampment located under a major Montreal highway. In ...
Apr 16, 2023
Fire in Dubai kills 16, injures 9 in apartment building
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A fire swept through an apartment building in an older neighborhood of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, killing at least 16 people and injuring another nine, autho...
Apr 16, 2023
Injury-plagued Toronto Arrows hammered 80-5 by New England Free Jacks in MLR play
TORONTO - The New England Free Jacks ran in 12 tries en route to an 80-5 demolition of the injury-plagued Toronto Arrows in Major League Rugby play Saturday. Toronto was without 12 injured players, in...
Apr 15, 2023
Canada's Tanner (The Bulldozer) Boser takes a beating in UFC light-heavyweight debut
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Canadian Tanner (The Bulldozer) Bower took a beating in his UFC light-heavyweight debut Saturday night, stopped in the first round by Moldova's Ion (The Hulk) Cutelaba. Boser went 4...
Apr 15, 2023
Whitecaps, Austin play to scoreless draw
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Yohei Takaoka finished with seven saves for the Vancouver Whitecaps and Brad Stuver stopped four shots for Austin FC as the two Major League Soccer clubs played to a scoreless dra...
Apr 15, 2023
Toronto FC rallies to tie Atlanta United as Lorenzo Insigne returns from injury
TORONTO - Brandon Servania scored in stoppage time Saturday to lift Toronto FC into a 2-2 tie with Atlanta United, TFC's sixth tie in eight outings this season. Substitute Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty, aft...
Apr 15, 2023
CF Montreal drops 1-0 decision to D.C. United
MONTREAL - CF Montreal's poor start to the Major League Soccer season continues, falling 1-0 to D.C. United during their first game at Stade Saputo on Saturday night. Lewis O'Brien scored the lone goa...
Apr 15, 2023
B.C. and federal government announce settlement with group of First Nations
VANCOUVER - The Canadian government says it's righting nearly a century of wrongs done to five First Nations in British Columbia by settling historic land claims owed under an 1899 treaty. Federal Cro...
Apr 15, 2023