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Blue Jays place 3B Josh Donaldson on DL with shoulder injury
CLEVELAND - The Toronto Blue Jays have placed third baseman Josh Donaldson on the 10-day disabled with right shoulder inflammation. Donaldson, the AL’s MVP in 2015, is batting .239 with three ho...
Apr 13, 2018
Canada increases oil exports, finding buyers in the U.S. despite shale oil boom
CALGARY - The National Energy Board says Canadian oil exports rose by 6.5 per cent last year to 3.3 million barrels per day despite an increase in light shale oil production in the United States, Cana...
Apr 13, 2018
Rescue tech who died in accident had chute tangle, lost track of height: report
OTTAWA - A military investigation report says an accident that killed a search and rescue technician near Yorkton, Sask., in March 2017 came after the man’s chute became twisted as he jumped in ...
Apr 13, 2018
Market Watch - April 13, 2018
Big Picture By Andrew Trimble U.S. corporate earnings optimism Toned down trade rhetoric in the U.S. and China allowed traders to focus on the health of corporate America and the picture appears sound...
Apr 13, 2018
Highlights of Comey book: Seven details from tell-all tome that has Trump fuming
WASHINGTON - James Comey’s new tell-all isn’t officially out yet, but it’s already infuriated President Donald Trump, who has called Comey an “untruthful slime ball,” and...
Apr 13, 2018
Feds have options to cut risk for Trans Mountain pipeline investors, says Carr
OTTAWA - Canada is considering several ways to reduce the financial risk for Kinder Morgan investors spooked by the uncertainty plaguing the planned Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Natural Resource...
Apr 13, 2018
Canada's Nurse looks forward to taking her responsibility as role model to WNBA
TORONTO - Kia Nurse was just 15 when her uncle Donovan McNabb took her to a Minnesota Lynx game. Nurse and McNabb, a 13-year NFL veteran who’d just been traded to the Vikings, had courtside seat...
Apr 13, 2018
Wynne says Ford's pledge to fire Hydro One CEO shows he has no plan
OAKVILLE, Ont. - Doug Ford’s promise to fire the CEO of Hydro One if elected this spring shows he has no plan to lead Ontario, Premier Kathleen Wynne said Friday, calling the Tory leader’s...
Apr 13, 2018
Publisher pulls MMIW poetry book following criticism from victim's family
A publisher has pulled a book of poems about missing and murdered Indigenous women from its collection following criticism that the author did not request the family’s permission to write about ...
Apr 13, 2018
Phoenix pay problems drop slightly; bigger decline unlikely until late spring
OTTAWA - The backlog of problem pay files created by the federal government’s Phoenix pay system fell slightly in March - the second straight monthly decline, figures released Friday show. But a...
Apr 13, 2018