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Blue Jays will soon learn their opponent in best-of-three AL wild-card series
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Rays will close out Major League Baseball's regular season Sunday at Rogers Centre in a playoff warm-up for both teams. Toronto dropped a 7-5 decision to ...
Oct 01, 2023
Ryder Cup in Rome stays right at home for Europe
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) - Europe won back the the Ryder Cup on Sunday, just like it always does before its raucous crowd, with Rory McIlroy leading the way and Tommy Fleetwood delivering the w...
Oct 01, 2023
Ryder Cup in Rome stays right at home for Europe
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) - Europe won back the the Ryder Cup on Sunday, just like it always does before its raucous crowd, with Rory McIlroy leading the way and Tommy Fleetwood delivering the w...
Oct 01, 2023
Canada's men's artistic gymnastics team qualifies for Olympics with worlds showing
ANTWERP, Belgium - Canada is sending a men's gymnastics team to the Olympics for the first time since 2008. Needing a top-12 finish in the team qualification to clinch an Olympic berth, Canada placed ...
Oct 01, 2023
A fire at a nightclub in Spain's southeastern city of Murcia kills 13
MADRID, Spain (AP) - A fire broke out in a nightclub in the southeastern Spanish city of Murcia on Sunday, killing 13 people and injuring several others, authorities said. The fire started around 6 a....
Oct 01, 2023
Saskatchewan’s minimum wage reaches $14 per hour
Saskatchewan's minimum wage was increased today to $14 an hour.But with the new increase comes the question of whether the minimum wage is yet high enough. According to Lori Johb, president of the Sas...
Oct 01, 2023
Suicide bomber detonates a device in the Turkish capital. A second assailant is killed in a shootout
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the heart of the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Sunday, hours before parliament was scheduled to reopen after a three-month summer ...
Oct 01, 2023
Overdoses from smoking toxic drugs outpace B.C. prevention sites
VANCOUVER - Nearly two-thirds of the overdose deaths in British Columbia this year came after smoking illicit drugs, yet only 40 per cent of the supervised consumption sites in the province offer a sa...
Oct 01, 2023
Save the Children advocate says aid cut hinders Canada's leadership in youth rights
OTTAWA - Save the Children's global advocate says Canada could lead an effort to have youth steer the reform of global institutions to fight climate change, while urging Ottawa to reverse aid cuts. "C...
Oct 01, 2023
Vancouver Whitecaps, D.C. United draw 2-2 as MLS playoff push continues
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps and D.C. United battled to a 2-2 draw, with defensive miscues and close chances cancelling each other out, as the chase for a Major League Soccer playoff spot inten...
Sep 30, 2023
