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Mason Toye scores twice, Minnesota United earn 3-2 win over Montreal Impact
MONTREAL - Minnesota United striker Mason Toye scored twice to give his team a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Impact at Saputo Stadium Saturday night. Impact striker Anthony Jackson-Hamel needed less t...
Jul 06, 2019
Brazilian bossa nova pioneer Joao Gilberto dies at 88
RIO DE JANEIRO - Joao Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became an iconic sound...
Jul 06, 2019
Alberta to hold $2.5-million public inquiry into funding for oil and gas foes
CALGARY - The Alberta government will hold a public inquiry into environmental groups that it says have been bankrolled by foreign benefactors hell-bent on keeping Canada's oil and...
Jul 06, 2019
One dead after crash near Wetaskiwin
A collision just north of Wetaskiwin has claimed one life.RCMP say it was July 5 around 2:20 p.m. when members received a report of a crash between a semi truck and a 2007 Ford Focus at the intersecti...
Jul 06, 2019
Throwback Expos day at D.C. baseball game divides Montrealers — and Americans
An Expos throwback day at the Washington Nationals' ballpark has divided Montrealers. While some cheered the vintage uniforms donned by players Saturday afternoon as an overdue homage, others cha...
Jul 06, 2019
Toronto Wolfpack survive sloppy play to extend rugby league win streak to 14
TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack keep winning. But coach Brian McDermott isn't liking much of what he's seeing these days. For a second game in a row, the transatlantic rugby league team triumphed despi...
Jul 06, 2019
Cashner solid through seven innings to lead Orioles over Blue Jays
TORONTO - Andrew Cashner pitched seven solid innings, Renato Nunez hit a two-run homer and the Baltimore Orioles silenced the Toronto Blue Jays' bats in an 8-1 victory on Saturday. Cashner (9-3) ...
Jul 06, 2019
Boyle's lawyer says alleged victim lied to the court about legal advice
OTTAWA - Former Afghanistan hostage Caitlan Coleman lied this week when she testified in her estranged husband's criminal trial she got approval from her lawyers to talk the media, defence lawyer Lawr...
Jul 06, 2019
Southern California reels from magnitude 7.1 quake
LOS ANGELES - A quake with a magnitude of 7.1 jolted much of California, cracking buildings, setting fires, breaking roads and causing several injuries while seismologists warned that large aftershock...
Jul 06, 2019
Innisfail Pontiacs alums continue to honour late former coach
You have to go back 57 years to 1962 when the Innisfail Pontiacs midget hockey squad was coached by a young man named Larry Reid.Reid, who was in his late twenties at the time, later passing away in 2...
Jul 06, 2019 (Back-L-R): Pontiacs alumni Gordon Flinn, Vern Fox, Al Scott, Lorrie Baker and Bill Cuthbert; (Front): Fran Trehearne, Bob Blair and Stan Simpson. Late coach Larry Reid is photographed in the background. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)