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CTV News - Toronto Sunday, June 30, 2024 10:48 PM
     What a difference a year can make for a Major League Baseball pitcher.

Sunday, June 30, 2024 10:00 PM
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Toronto Sun Monday, July 1, 2024 5:50 AM
     Some 680 workers walked off the job Friday evening despite a directive for binding arbitration from the labour minister

Toronto Sun Monday, July 1, 2024 5:00 AM
     The past year has been like one giant costume party for Toronto's new mayor — and dressing up suits her well. Mayor Olivia Chow is living her best life as Toronto's chief magistrate — often dressed up as not herself. Move over Mr. Dressup, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, there's a new wardrobe maven in town. […]

Toronto Sun Monday, July 1, 2024 5:00 AM
     "It was the breast of times, it was the worst of times." — with apologies to Charles Dickens. Hooters is still the sugar daddy of the breastaurant business with its patented babes and booze formula. But last week, the public got a sneak peek into the chain's sagging fortunes when the company abruptly shuttered 40 […]

Toronto Sun Monday, July 1, 2024 5:00 AM
     Terror mastermind Yahya Sinwar is Israel's Public Enemy No.1. Dead or alive. The plotter of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel that killed 1,300 and triggered a firestorm in the Middle East is now a "cornered rat" in the dank Gaza tunnels. Most of the top terrorists involved in the attack are dead or […]

Toronto Sun Monday, July 1, 2024 2:00 AM
     SUNshine Girl Candy Dawn is back by popular demand. This Blue Jays fan figure she'd throw us all a curveball being a party sensation. Candy Dawn has always been a full-on beauty, fashion and lifestyle influencer, doing informative YouTube tutorials on makeup and products and is always looking for the next fashion trend before it […]

Toronto Sun Sunday, June 30, 2024 10:36 PM
     MONTREAL — Aaron Brown will be competing in the 200 metres at the Paris Olympics. The Toronto native won the national title in the event with a time of 20.09 seconds at the Canadian Olympic track and field trials on Sunday. He finished ahead of Brendon Rodney (20.34) and Jerome Blake (20.41), his teammates in […]

Toronto Sun Sunday, June 30, 2024 10:14 PM
     WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden's family used a Sunday gathering at Camp David to urge him to stay in the race and keep fighting despite his dreadful debate performance, and some members criticized how his staff prepared him for the faceoff, according to four people familiar with the discussions. Biden spent the day sequestered […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 5:54 AM
     PARIS (AP) — France's National Rally surged into the lead in the first round of legislative elections, according to results released early Monday, bringing the far-right party to the brink of power and dealing a major blow to President Emmanuel Macron's centrists in an election that could set the country, and Europe, on a starkly […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 5:34 AM
     LONDON (AP) — Britain's upcoming general election is widely expected to lead to a change of government for the first time in 14 years. Many analysts believe it will be one of the country's most consequential elections since the end of World War II. Ahead of the July 4 vote, The Associated Press takes a […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 5:06 AM
     PARIS (AP) — French voters face a decisive choice on July 7 in the runoff of snap parliamentary elections that could see the country's first far-right government since the World War II Nazi occupation — or no majority emerging at all. Official results suggest Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration, nationalist party National Rally stands a good […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 5:00 AM
     NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani will be reelected, provisional results from all polling stations showed on Sunday, after positioning the country as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups and violence. Ghazouani, who campaigned on a pledge of providing security and economic growth, obtained 56.1% of […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 4:52 AM
     SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Monday tapped the largest group in parliament, the center-right GERB-UDF coalition, to form the country's new government. Accepting the mandate, Prime Minister-designate Rosen Zhelyazkov presented a proposal for a Cabinet and asked the president to send it to parliament for approval. The 56-year-old lawyer and former […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 4:48 AM
     BANGKOK (AP) — Surveys of Chinese factory managers showed a mixed outlook for the world's second-largest economy in June, with growth steady but not picking up much steam. The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing's official purchasing managers index, or PMI, remained at 49.5, the same as in May, on a scale up to 100 […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 4:46 AM
     YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A 17-year-old Chinese player died after collapsing on court during an Asian tournament in Indonesia's Yogyakarta province, Indonesia's Badminton Association said Monday. Zhang Zhijie was playing against Kazuma Kawano of Japan at the Badminton Asia Junior Championships on Sunday when he collapsed and had seizures. Badminton officials said medical teams treated […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 4:36 AM
     KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel released the director of Gaza's main hospital on Monday, seven months after the military raided the facility over allegations it was being used as a Hamas command center. The release of Mohammed Abu Selmia without charge or trial raised further questions about Israel's allegations regarding Shifa Hospital, which […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 4:07 AM
     TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Renowned Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in Tirana, his publishing editor said on Monday. He was 88. Kadare has long been mentioned as a possible contender for the Nobel Literature Prize. "Albania and Albanians lost their genius of letters, their spiritual emancipator, the Balkans […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 4:00 AM
     OTTAWA — The Maple Leaf is flying on every lamppost, flagpole and patio in downtown Ottawa as the national capital joins other cities in welcoming thousands of revellers for Canada Day. A number of city streets are closed around Parliament Hill and the LeBreton Flats Park, where the stage for this year's main ceremony is […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 3:36 AM
     ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian authorities arrested two journalists for publishing a video showing businesswomen protesting how they were treated at a government-sponsored event. Journalists in Algeria have faced mounting repression since President Abdelmadjid Tebboune came to power four years ago, with possible long jail time on flimsy charges, experts say. Many news outlets have […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 2:55 AM
     COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Rajavarothiyam Sampanthan, an ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker who became the face of the minority group's campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka after the end of a brutal quarter-century civil war, has died. He was 91. A lawyer by profession, Sampanthan entered Parliament for the first time in 1977 as […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 2:50 AM
     MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Eighteen inmates, including some on death row, have escaped from a prison in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir after overpowering a guard with a pistol, Pakistani officials said on Monday. Local police chief Riaz Mughal said one of the prisoners was shot and killed in the breakout from Rawalakot prison […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 2:43 AM
     SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For the first time, North Korean officials have been seen wearing lapel pins with the image of leader Kim Jong Un, another sign the North is boosting his personality cult to the level bestowed on his late dictator father and grandfather. North Koreans are required to wear pins over their […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, July 1, 2024 2:34 AM
     BANGKOK (AP) — Japan revised its earlier estimates to show that its economy contracted at a 2.9% annual pace in the first quarter of the year, as meanwhile a survey by the central bank released Monday showed conditions remain sluggish. Analysts had expected the downward revision in the GDP data for January-March and said it […]

Ottawa Citizen Monday, July 1, 2024 4:00 AM
     Karen Nielsen and Leigh Reid have been running highjinx, a thrift/vintage store and social venture, for more than a dozen years.