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Ontario to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2019, ensure equal pay for part-time workers
TORONTO - Ontario will increase minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next 18 months as part of sweeping changes to labour laws, the province’s Liberal government announced Tuesday, satisfying a ...
Jun 02, 2017
Hearing soon on death declaration of toddler who disappeared
PORTLAND, Maine - A judge will convene a hearing on a woman’s request that her toddler daughter be declared dead more than five years after her disappearance set off a frantic search that evolve...
Jun 02, 2017
Amazon's stock tops $1,000 for the first time
NEW YORK - Amazon, the e-commerce giant that has changed how much of the world shops for books, toilet paper and TVs, hit a new milestone. Its stock topped $1,000 for the first time. That price puts A...
Jun 02, 2017
B.C. shakeup brings new doubts for Kinder Morgan Canada as shares fall on debut
CALGARY - British Columbia’s NDP and Greens are vowing to bring the Trans Mountain expansion to a halt should they form government, one of several promises that could have widespread ramificatio...
Jun 02, 2017
3 Mile Island owner threatens to close ill-fated plant
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Cheap natural gas could do what the worst commercial nuclear power accident in U.S. history could not: put Three Mile Island out of business. Three Mile Island’s owner, Exelon ...
Jun 02, 2017
Scores and Schedule
Thursday’s Games NBA Finals Golden State 113 Cleveland 91 (Warriors lead series 1-0) — MLB American Cleveland 8 Oakland 0 Baltimore 7 Boston 5 N.Y. Yankees 12 Toronto 2 Minnesota 4 L.A. An...
Jun 02, 2017
Thursday's Games
Thursday’s Games NBA Finals Golden State 113 Cleveland 91 (Warriors lead series 1-0) — MLB American Cleveland 8 Oakland 0 Baltimore 7 Boston 5 N.Y. Yankees 12 Toronto 2 Minnesota 4 L.A. An...
Jun 02, 2017
Toronto Wolfpack forward James Laithwaite recalls the day he broke his neck
TORONTO - It started as a routine rugby league tackle. But bad things can happen when some 900 pounds of beef collides at speed with no padding. That’s what happened April 23 when the Salford Re...
Jun 01, 2017
15-year-old girl shot in stomach outside metro station north of Montreal
MONTREAL - A 15-year-old girl is recovering in hospital after being shot in the stomach shortly after midnight Tuesday morning. Police say the girl was with friends outside a metro station in Laval, n...
Jun 01, 2017
Tragically Hip strikes partnership with medical marijuana company
TORONTO - A soon-to-be publicly traded medicinal marijuana producer has partnered with the Tragically Hip in anticipation of the drug’s legalization and a burgeoning recreational market. Newstri...
Jun 01, 2017