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Ohtani hurls 6 innings, doubles in Angels' 6-3 win over Jays
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Shohei Ohtani pitched six innings of three-hit ball to win his third consecutive start, and he also doubled and scored an early run in the Los Angeles Angels' 6-3 victory over t...
Aug 12, 2021
Lions defence combines for four picks on Stampeders QB Mitchell in 15-9 win
CALGARY - A game-time decision to start for the B.C. Lions on Thursday, quarterback Mike Reilly led his team to a 15-9 win over the Calgary Stampeders. Reilly completed 26-of-33 passes for 342 yards a...
Aug 12, 2021
CPL champion Forge FC defeats El Salvador's CD FAS in CONCACAF League opener
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Canadian Premier League champion Forge FC opened its Scotiabank CONCACAF League campaign Thursday with a comfortable 3-1 victory over El Salvador's CD FAS. Tristan Borges, ...
Aug 12, 2021
First live 'murder hornet' sighted near U.S.-Canada border, say scientists
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Scientists from the Washington State Department of Agriculture say they've found the first so-called live murder hornet for the year. In a news release Thursday, entomologists say the...
Aug 12, 2021
Canada welcomes home Olympians after Tokyo Games with an outdoor drive-in celebration
TORONTO - Team Canada's athletes are being welcomed home now that the torch at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been extinguished. The athletes spent more than two weeks in Japan competing, while over...
Aug 12, 2021
Will climate change spark interest as an election issue?
Precipice, tipping point, code red for humanity: just some of the descriptions being made following the stark and dire United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report since it w...
Aug 12, 2021
Canada's Mike Weir excited to make Shaw Charity Classic debut
CALGARY - Mike Weir made history at the 1999 Air Canada Championship at Northview Golf and Country Club in Surrey, B.C. More than 20 years later, the 51-year-old golfer from Sarnia, Ont., is hoping fo...
Aug 12, 2021
Chisox, Yanks awed at Field of Dreams, MLB promises repeat
DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) - As the bus carried the New York Yankees through the cornfields blanketing this serene, rolling farmland of northeast Iowa, Aaron Judge noticed a difference from the usual arriv...
Aug 12, 2021
Heat, low humidity and wind gusts are working against firefighting cause in B.C.
VANCOUVER - High temperatures, low humidity and an increase in winds are making wildfire conditions challenging in southern British Columbia, says the provincial deputy forests minister. Rick Manwarin...
Aug 12, 2021
Rory MacDonald looks to put controversial loss behind him as he returns to PFL action
It's been some eight weeks since Rory (The Red King) MacDonald lost to Gleison Tibau, and the Canadian welterweight still can't believe it. MacDonald remains incredulous that he was at the wrong end o...
Aug 12, 2021
