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Maple Leafs trade Zaitsev, Brown to Senators for Ceci in six-player deal
TORONTO - The Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs have swapped underperforming defencemen. The provincial rivals completed a deal that had been rumoured for nearly 48 hours on Monda...
Jul 01, 2019
Roughriders feel some pressure to get first win
While it's not a must-win game, the Saskatchewan Roughriders know Monday's home opener is an important game early in the 2019 CFL season."I think there's some pressure (to get a win), I think the play...
Jul 01, 2019 Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Craig Dickenson. (File photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Liam Richards/Electric Umbrella)
Officer appears to utter threats during arrest
RCMP say the language used by one of their officers is "concerning" following the arrest of a suspect in Pelican Narrows early Sunday morning. That language appears to include an officer uttering thre...
Jul 01, 2019 A screen shot of a video posted to social media includes audio of an officer using language RCMP have labelled concerning. (Facebook)
'It would be terrible if nothing changed,' says Danforth victim's father
TORONTO - When Ken Price read the final police report on the man who shot his daughter during a rampage through Toronto's Greektown, it galvanized his resolve to tackle o...
Jul 01, 2019
High house costs have some Canadians thinking tiny, but not all cities on board
MONTREAL - Amelia Jasper-Laurin dreams of living in a community of tiny house owners, where like-minded neighbours all pitch in to share chores and property maintenance. Karina Jacobsen, an ...
Jul 01, 2019
Iran says it has broken stockpile limit set by nuclear deal
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran acknowledged Monday it had broken the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by the 2015 nuclear deal, marking its first major departure from the unraveling agreement a...
Jul 01, 2019
Canuck-themed restos give the world a taste of Canada, make expats feel at home
Growing up, Paryse Lambert spent summers with her mother's family in Quebec indulging in French-Canadian staples including croque monsieur, steak hache, and of course, poutine. After settling down in ...
Jul 01, 2019
Truce in US-China trade war as 2 rivals seek breakthrough
OSAKA, Japan - President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping agreed to a cease-fire Saturday in their nations' yearlong trade war, averting for now an escalation feared by financial markets, businesse...
Jul 01, 2019
Suspect in deadly Dutch tram shooting appears in court
BRUSSELS - Dutch prosecutors said Monday they have a "strong indication" that a man accused of fatally shooting four passengers on a tram in the central city of Utrecht in March had a "terrorist motiv...
Jul 01, 2019
Illegal or just immoral? Film explores texting suicide case
BOSTON - A new documentary asks whether a young woman who sent her suicidal boyfriend countless text messages encouraging him to take his own life should be behind bars as a convicted criminal. HBO's ...
Jul 01, 2019