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Toronto FC's Ayo Akinola accepts chance to see what life is like in Canadian colours
Toronto FC striker Ayo Akinola will get a chance to see how the other half lives next month at a Canadian national team camp in Florida. The 20-year-old Akinola, who was born in Detroit but moved to C...
Dec 23, 2020
Trump vetoes defence bill, setting up possible override vote
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed the annual defence policy bill, following through on threats to veto a measure that has broad bipartisan support in Congress and potentially set...
Dec 23, 2020
Vehicle check results in drugs, loaded firearm seizure
Battlefords RCMP arrested two individuals Tuesday evening, seizing multiple items, including a loaded firearm and cocaine.Shortly before 7 p.m., an off-duty RCMP officer noticed a suspicious vehicle p...
Dec 23, 2020
Fugitive dubbed 'pilot to the stars' likely hiding in northern Quebec: police
MONTREAL - Police say a man convicted of an aerial attack on Hydro-Quebec power lines and who has evaded authorities for a week could be hiding out in the province's north. Provincial police added Nor...
Dec 23, 2020
Family of Pakistan dissident Karima Mehrab urge thorough investigation into her death
TORONTO - The family of an internationally prominent Pakistani dissident urged a thorough investigation into her death, saying Wednesday they were having difficulty accepting a police conclusion she k...
Dec 23, 2020
Province records 159 new COVID-19 cases, five deaths
Five people diagnosed with COVID-19 have died in the province, marking a total of 130 deaths in Saskatchewan to date. Over half of those deaths have occurred this month.Two deaths in the 70-79 age gro...
Dec 23, 2020
Masks distributed to Quebec daycares since May are faulty, says families minister
MONTREAL - Quebec authorities say masks that have been distributed to daycares across the province since May don't meet provincial safety standards. The Families Department issued a notice Tuesday cal...
Dec 23, 2020
Rage, reckoning come to forefront in ‘Promising Young Woman’
Emerald Fennell wanted to write about female rage. Before #MeToo became ubiquitous, she had been thinking about complacency and the teen movies of her youth where consent was often little more than a ...
Dec 23, 2020
British model and fashion muse Stella Tennant dies at age 50
LONDON - Stella Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to designers such as Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace, has died suddenly at the age of 50, her family said Wednesday. Tennant, t...
Dec 23, 2020
S&P 500 ticks higher, on track to break 3-day losing streak
NEW YORK - Stocks are ticking higher on Wall Street Wednesday following a mixed set of reports on the economy. The S&P 500 was up by 0.6% and on pace for its first gain after three days of losses ...
Dec 23, 2020