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Blue Jays sign right-hander Dillon Tate to one-year deal
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have signed right-hander Dillon Tate to a one-year contract, the team announced Wednesday. The deal is worth US$1.4 million. In a corresponding move, the Blue Jays tran...
Mar 12, 2025
Industry group says Trump tariffs could destroy U.S. demand for aluminum
MONTREAL - A representative of Canada's aluminum industry says the Trump administration's 25 per cent tariffs could destroy demand for the metal in the American market. Jean Simard, president and CEO ...
Mar 12, 2025
Ottawa, province to provide rent support for B.C. gender-based violence survivors
VICTORIA - The British Columbia and federal governments have announced funding to ensure adequate housing for survivors of gender-based violence in the province. The B.C. Housing Ministry says in a ne...
Mar 12, 2025
Vernon councillor to request an assessment of supportive housing and other projects
A Vernon City Councillor will ask that an assessment be done on the existing supportive housing and barrier free projects in the downtown core.Coun. Kari Gares was to put forward a notice of motion Mo...
Mar 12, 2025
Canada calls for unity, pushes back on U.S. tariffs as G7 ministers gather in Quebec
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly is welcoming her counterparts from some of the world's most powerful countries to Quebec this week, as Ottawa works to maintain unity between Washington a...
Mar 12, 2025
Quebec Court of Appeal to hear Gilbert Rozon over defence in sex assault civil trial
MONTREAL - Quebec's highest court says it will hear Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon's appeal over a decision that limited the questions his defence could ask during his civil trial for sexual as...
Mar 12, 2025
Norwegian ski jumpers Lindvik and Forfang have been suspended as suit tampering scandal escalates
GENEVA (AP) - Sign stealing in baseball. Match fixing in soccer. Doping allegations in swimming. Now ski jumping has its own scandal that escalated Wednesday. Cheating by Norway team officials manipul...
Mar 12, 2025
Norwegian ski jumpers Lindvik and Forfang have been suspended as suit tampering scandal escalates
GENEVA (AP) - Sign stealing in baseball. Match fixing in soccer. Doping allegations in swimming. Now ski jumping has its own scandal that escalated Wednesday. Cheating by Norway team officials manipul...
Mar 12, 2025
Norwegian ski jumpers Lindvik and Forfang have been suspended as suit tampering scandal escalates
GENEVA (AP) - Sign stealing in baseball. Match fixing in soccer. Doping allegations in swimming. Now ski jumping has its own scandal that escalated Wednesday. Cheating by Norway team officials manipul...
Mar 12, 2025
Philippine ex-president Duterte is heading to the ICC to face charges linked to 'war on drugs'
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A jet that took Philippine ex-President Rodrigo Duterte from Manila landed Wednesday in the Netherlands a day after he was arrested on an International Criminal Court war...
Mar 12, 2025
