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Michigan Gov. Whitmer blocks immigrant detention plan
LANSING, Mich. - Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer blocked the sale of a former state prison that was proposed as the site of a privately operated federal immigration detention centre, drawing praise f...
Feb 19, 2019
Toronto FC loses 4-0 in Panama in ugly start to CONCACAF Champions League play
LA CHORRERA, Panama - A sluggish Toronto FC suffered a nightmarish start to its Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League campaign in a 4-0 loss Tuesday to Panama's Club Atletico Independiente de la C...
Feb 19, 2019
Toronto Defiant Overwatch academy team to be known as the Montreal Rebellion
MONTREAL - The Toronto Defiant's Overwatch academy team will be known as the Montreal Rebellion. The Montreal feeder team will play in the Overwatch Contenders League. The squad will be hous...
Feb 19, 2019
Cherry enjoys Hurricanes' "Bunch of Jerks" shirts but still against celebrations
Don Cherry doesn't think the Carolina Hurricanes are very funny. But he admits their shirts are. The TV hockey commentator called the Hurricanes a "bunch of jerks" on Saturday night when sharply criti...
Feb 19, 2019
Quebec minister refuses to bend on bill upping legal age to consume cannabis
Quebec junior health minister Lionel Carmant is refusing to bend on legislation that seeks to increase the legal age of cannabis consumption from 18 to 21 and ban the product ...
Feb 19, 2019
Canadian teenager Auger-Aliassime shocks No. 16 Fognini at Rio Open
RIO DE JANEIRO - Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime cruised to a 6-2, 6-3 upset of second-seed Fabio Fognini on Tuesday at the Rio Open tennis tournament. Fognini, ranked No. 16 in the world, is the hig...
Feb 19, 2019
Mother accused of murdering daughters had reached breaking point: defence
LAVAL, Que. - People who saw a Quebec woman on the day she is alleged to have killed her two daughters testified that she acted "as if she was in a coma" and was "disconnected from real...
Feb 19, 2019
Trump wants California to pay back billions for bullet train
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Trump administration plans to cancel $929 million in U.S. money for California's beleaguered high-speed rail project and wants the state to return an additional $2.5 billion i...
Feb 19, 2019
Venezuela shuts sea, air links to Dutch islands amid turmoil
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan officials said Tuesday that the country is banning air and sea trips to and from three Dutch Caribbean islands - a region that has been linked to efforts to undermine P...
Feb 19, 2019
NEB rejects call to expand scope of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion review
CALGARY - The National Energy Board is rejecting a call made by an environmental group last month to greatly expand the scope of its reconsideration of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Stand.ear...
Feb 19, 2019