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Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo reminisces on Expos connection in Montreal
MONTREAL - Charlie Montoyo was a 27-year-old infielder still trying to carve out a major league career the last time he stepped on the field at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. Montoyo, now the manag...
Mar 25, 2019
Famed Nova Scotia treasure hunter did it his way, reverend tells funeral
MARTINS POINT, N.S. - An American man who dedicated his life to finding treasure on Nova Scotia’s Oak Island was remembered Monday as a larger-than-life figure who became a pillar in the communi...
Mar 25, 2019
Man charged in stabbing of Montreal priest sent for psychiatric evaluation
MONTREAL - A Montreal man charged with the attempted murder of a Catholic priest last week was ordered Monday to undergo an evaluation at a psychiatric hospital. The Crown and defence agreed that Vlad...
Mar 25, 2019
Refugee who sheltered Edward Snowden in Hong Kong arrives in Canada
A woman who escaped violence and human trafficking, and helped shelter former CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden when he fled to Hong Kong, has arrived in Canada with her daughter after being granted re...
Mar 25, 2019
Ex-Brazilian President Temer released from jail after 5 days
RIO DE JANEIRO - Former Brazilian President Michel Temer was released from jail on Monday, less than a week after he was arrested in the sprawling Car Wash corruption probe that has ensnared many of t...
Mar 25, 2019
Kansas' new Democratic governor vetoes GOP tax relief bill
TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas’ new Democratic governor on Monday vetoed a tax relief bill approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature, arguing it would repeat an infamous fiscal experiment that fa...
Mar 25, 2019
Judge suggests Hawaii man avoid favourite soda on probation
WAILUKU, Hawaii - A Hawaii judge suggested a man not drink his favourite soda during four years of probation on a car theft conviction. Judge Rhonda Loo suggested in a Maui court last week that 21-yea...
Mar 25, 2019
Crash threatens Vancouver shipyard's schedule for new coast guard ships
OTTAWA - The Canadian Coast Guard’s hope that its first new fisheries science vessel will finally be delivered this summer could be dashed after the ship crashed on its first test run last week....
Mar 25, 2019
Tom Clancy's widow expands challenge of rights ownership
BALTIMORE - Tom Clancy’s widow says in a lawsuit that his estate is the exclusive owner not just of the novelist’s famous character Jack Ryan, but the rights to the character John Clark an...
Mar 25, 2019
Sources say Trudeau rejected Wilson-Raybould's conservative pick for high court
OTTAWA - Jody Wilson-Raybould recommended in 2017 that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nominate a conservative Manitoba judge to be chief justice of the Supreme Court, even though he wasn’t a sitt...
Mar 25, 2019