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Predators captain Fisher retires after 17 seasons in NHL
Nashville Predators forward Mike Fisher has retired in what he calls the hardest decision he’s had to make, leaving the defending Stanley Cup finalists in need of a new captain. The 37-year-old ...
Aug 3, 2017
Police seek international victims of 65-year-old man who posed online as boy
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Police are looking for victims of a 65-year-old Newfoundland man who posed as a teenage boy and exploited children online. The RCMP says the Deer Lake man was convicted of pos...
Aug 3, 2017
Toronto lays out opioid measures after emergency meeting on spike in deaths
Toronto is speeding up the opening of three supervised injection sites and asking local police to consider having some officers carry the opioid overdose antidote naloxone as the city responds to a sp...
Aug 3, 2017
N. Korean missile tests spook neighbours, but 'what to do?'
YOKOSUKA, Japan - North Korea’s flurry of missile launches - 20 of them just in the past year - is a new and alarming fact of life for Japan and its other neighbours. But Pyongyang’s recen...
Aug 3, 2017
Seeking a dream, Indonesian family finds nightmare in Raqqa
AIN ISSA, Syria - The 17-year-old Indonesian girl made a persuasive case to her family: Lured by what she had read online, she told her parents, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins they should all move...
Aug 3, 2017
B.C. heat wave brings record-breaking temperatures, poor air quality
VANCOUVER - Air quality across southern British Columbia remains poor as smoke from wildfires and a heat wave affect the region. The province is reporting a high health risk rating for air quality in ...
Aug 3, 2017
PSG signing Neymar a PR coup for isolated Qatar
LONDON - If world soccer’s transfer record is obliterated by Neymar’s move to Paris Saint-Germain, it will be a coup for the French club - and the tiny energy-rich emirate of Qatar. By sig...
Aug 3, 2017
Police seek truck that left one dead in apparent hit and run near Montreal
BROSSARD, Que. - Quebec provincial police were searching Thursday for a truck involved in a hit and run near Montreal that left one person dead in a car. Three other people in the car were injured in ...
Aug 3, 2017
Markets Right Now: US stock indexes drift lower at midday
The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 11:45 a.m. Stocks are drifting lower in midday trading on Wall Street as investors look over a mixed batch of earnings reports from U...
Aug 3, 2017
Hwy 93 and Trans Canada Hwy reopened
Authorities have reopened two key roads that link Albert and British Columbia. Highway 93 from Castle Mountain Junction in Alberta to Radium Hot Springs in B.C. was shut down yesterday because of fore...
Aug 3, 2017