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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)
On the eve of the World Cup final, Rapinoe calls out FIFA
LYON, France - Megan Rapinoe called out FIFA on the eve of the Women's World Cup title match. Her criticism Saturday ranged from the gap in prize money between the men and women, to scheduling that pu...
Jul 06, 2019
During loss, Fabio Fognini says Wimbledon should be bombed
WIMBLEDON, England - Already on Grand Slam probation, top-10 player Fabio Fognini could be in more trouble after saying during his third-round match at Wimbledon on Saturday that he wanted a bomb to h...
Jul 06, 2019
Calgary couple guilty in son's staph death appeal convictions, sentences
CALGARY - A Calgary couple found guilty in the death of their 14-month-old son are appealing their convictions and sentences. Jennifer Clark and her husband Jeromie Clark were sentenced...
Jul 06, 2019
Police, military co-ordinate to detonate 'unexploded ordnance' in Jasper NP
JASPER, Alta. - Police and the military have co-ordinated to blow up a piece of "unexploded ordnance" found by climbers in Jasper National Park. RCMP say climbers found the device on the north si...
Jul 06, 2019
Raptors face uncertain future, but will have truckload of cap space next summer
TORONTO - Less than a month ago, Pascal Siakam was crossing the stage at the NBA awards in Santa Monica, Calif., to accept the league's Most Improved Player award. Now the self-described "scrawny kid ...
Jul 06, 2019