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Canada's Wickens leads emotional warm-up lap in Toronto almost year after crash
TORONTO - Canada's Robert Wickens made an emotional return to IndyCar racing on Sunday. Almost a year after a horrific crash left Wickens a paraplegic, the 30-year-old from Guelp...
Jul 16, 2019
Toronto FC believes it is back on track as it readies for Red Bulls test
Toronto FC looks to continue its return to form Wednesday against the visiting New York Red Bulls with coach Greg Vanney facing lineup choices. "A lot of decisions to make now," Vanney said happily af...
Jul 16, 2019
New developments in text-messaging controversy involving Manitoba chief
WINNIPEG - The women's council of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs says it will no longer be part of what it calls a "social media drama" involving the grand chief. Arlen Dumas announced last week that...
Jul 16, 2019
Brayden Schnur drops first-round match at Hall of Fame Open
NEWPORT, R.I. - Canada's Brayden Schnur lost his first match as a top-100 player, falling 6-1, 2-6, 6-3 to Australian Matthew Ebden in the opening round of the Hall of Fame Open on Tuesday. Schnur, fr...
Jul 16, 2019
England wins first Cricket World Cup after all-time classic
LONDON - Jos Buttler threw his gloves into the sky and wheeled away in celebration. Jofra Archer slid on his chest across the Lord's turf and beat the ground. Joe Root punched the air as he was lifted...
Jul 16, 2019
South African musician Johnny Clegg dies at 66 after cancer
JOHANNESBURG - Johnny Clegg, a South African musician who performed in defiance of racial barriers imposed by the apartheid system decades ago and celebrated its new democracy under Nelson Mandela, di...
Jul 16, 2019
Officials flagged 900 food items from China with 'problems' over two years
OTTAWA - Canadian inspectors intercepted nearly 900 food products from China over concerns about faulty labels, unmentioned allergens and harmful contaminants that included glass and metal b...
Jul 16, 2019
Djokovic tops Federer in historic final for 5th at Wimbledon
WIMBLEDON, England - For nearly five tight, tense and terrific hours, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer traded the lead, playing on and on and on until an unprecedented fifth-set tiebreaker was require...
Jul 16, 2019
Interfaith Food Bank celebrates 30-year anniversary
LETHBRIDGE, AB - For 30 years, the Interfaith Food Bank Society has been helping the less fortunate in Lethbridge. Starting off as the Catholic Charities Food Bank, the group moved from a church basem...
Jul 16, 2019 Interfaith Food Bank celebrated its 30th anniversary on Tuesday (Lethbridge News Now)
Manitoba university cuts ties with Ebola researcher pending RCMP investigation
WINNIPEG - The University of Manitoba says it has cut ties with an Ebola vaccine researcher pending the results of an RCMP investigation. A spokesperson says the school is ending the non-sal...
Jul 16, 2019