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CTV News - Toronto Thursday, August 8, 2024 11:28 PM
     A man suffered life-threatening injuries when he was shot near Woodbine Beach Thursday night, Toronto police said.
CTV News - Toronto Thursday, August 8, 2024 10:43 PM
     Vladimir Guerrero Jr. drove in four runs while extending his hit streak to 20 games to lead the Toronto Blue Jays past the Baltimore Orioles 7-6 on Thursday.
Thursday, August 8, 2024 10:41 PM
     A first-of-its-kind deal for the province has been accepted by Manitoba teachers.
Thursday, August 8, 2024 10:39 PM
     A Manitoba Hydro worker has lost their life on the job.
Thursday, August 8, 2024 10:03 PM
     Alberta Health Services confirms it is concluding its long-COVID outpatient program much to the disappointment and frustration of Alberta patients suffering from symptoms.
Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:56 PM
     Vladimir Guerrero Jr. gave his Hall of Fame father something to cheer about in what otherwise has been a doom and gloom season for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:52 PM
     BC Tree Fruits, a member-owned cooperative that helps fruit growers get their product to market, abruptly closed in late July.
Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:50 PM
     Jill St. Marie says she kept topping up the oil and thought she had a fix until she says her vehicle started losing power uphill.
Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:49 PM
     Calgary artist Adam Baker lost $4,000 in tools to thieves over the long weekend. Baker uses chainsaws and other equipment to carve animals from wood.
Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:47 PM
     Soledad Ronco struggled through chemotherapy while also receiving the immunotherapy drug Keytruda to keep the triple-negative breast cancer at bay.
Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:45 PM
     The bulk of the concerning sections of pipe run under 33rd Avenue N.W. in Bowness, with others detected along Parkdale Boulevard and 16 Avenue N.W.
Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:39 PM
     The Northern Hail Project is the first of its kind to study high-impact hail events after chunks of ice as big as baseballs pelted parts of the Calgary area this week.
Toronto Sun Friday, August 9, 2024 2:00 AM
     SUNshine Girl Cassandra is a 5-foot-7, blue-eyed Taurus who loves being pampered when she's not staying fit at the gym. She also enjoys shopping and watching hockey. Cassandra's dream job is to be a rich housewife while cruising around in her dream car, a Bugatti. (Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun)
Toronto Sun Friday, August 9, 2024 2:00 AM
     Steve Nease cartoon, August 9, 2024
Toronto Sun Thursday, August 8, 2024 10:28 PM
     Juan "Chi Chi" Rodriguez, a Hall of Fame golfer whose antics on the greens and inspiring life story made him among the sport's most popular players during a long professional career, died Thursday. He was 88. Rodriguez's death was announced by Carmelo Javier Rios, a senator in Rodriguez's native Puerto Rico. He didn't provide a […]
Toronto Sun Thursday, August 8, 2024 10:18 PM
     Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s hit streak extended to 20 games in a big way on Thursday night, sparking the Blue Jays to a 7-6 win over the visiting Baltimore Orioles in the rubber match of their three-game series. The way Vladdy is swinging the bat, he might even threaten Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak, dubbed by […]
Toronto Sun Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:52 PM
     FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Matias Rojas scored twice and Jordi Alba had four assists as defending-champion Inter Miami, despite having a player sent off in the 28th minute, hung on to defeat Toronto FC 4-3 in round-of-32 Leagues Cup play Thursday. While there was no Lionel Messi, the game had pretty much everything else. The […]
Toronto Sun Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:15 PM
     Pamela Anderson felt she "needed a change" before she moved back to Canada. The 57-year-old actress has admitted that she "was not in a good space" when she decided to move to Vancouver Island around the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Speaking to Better Homes and Gardens magazine, Pamela, who was born in […]
Toronto Sun Thursday, August 8, 2024 8:41 PM
     WASHINGTON — Leaders of the United States, Egypt and Qatar jointly demanded Israel and Hamas return to stalled talks on the war in Gaza next week, saying Thursday that "only the details" of carrying out a cease-fire and hostage release remain to be negotiated. "There is no further time to waste, nor excuses from any […]
Toronto Sun Thursday, August 8, 2024 8:13 PM
     Vancouver Fire Rescue Services say five homes are unsafe to occupy after a massive fire and crane collapse in the city's Dunbar neighbourhood. The fire department says in a statement that 81 people registered for assistance after being evacuated Tuesday but most can go home following the blaze at a multi-storey apartment building under construction […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 3:10 AM
     TOKYO (AP) — Toyota promised Friday to strengthen oversight of its vehicle certification so the scandal that surfaced recently over improper tests will never recur. Japan's top automaker outlined in detail the measures it will take, including greater managerial involvement, assigning more staff to certification tasks and clarifying responsibilities of specific posts, such as the […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 2:53 AM
     BANGKOK (AP) — In Bangladesh, weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs turned into a broad uprising that forced the prime minister to flee the country and resign. The demonstrations began peacefully last month and were primarily led by students frustrated with the system that they said favored those with connections to […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 2:37 AM
     DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Three suspected attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted a ship in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait linking the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea, including one that saw private security guards shoot and destroy a bomb-loaded drone boat, authorities said Friday. The Houthis did not immediately claim the […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 2:07 AM
     ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A bus traveling between cities in Turkey swerved off a highway and slammed into an overpass pillar Friday, killing nine people on board, an official said. At least 26 other people were injured. The crash occurred near the town of Polatli, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the capital Ankara, Gov. […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 1:42 AM
     SAVE VALLEY CONSERVANCY, Zimbabwe (AP) — On the impoverished edges of a conservancy that protects wildlife in southeastern Zimbabwe, 14-year-old Esther Bote wakes up at dawn to a practiced daily routine. She cleans the house, lights the fire, cooks, bathes and gets into her neat grey and white school uniform. Then it's time for what […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 1:05 AM
     LUCAMA, N.C. (AP) — The remnants of Debby picked up the pace Friday, moving north and northeast from the Carolinas and still packing a punch with heavy rains, flash flooding and the threat of tornadoes. The Mid-Atlantic states and parts of New York and New England will see significant rainfall that could cause dangerous flooding […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 1:04 AM
     HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Pilot Jim Maxwell logged nearly 25,000 flight hours over five decades flying small planes in dangerous situations, from spraying to kill illegal drug crops in Central America to navigating smoky skies to drop fire retardant as wildfires scorch the Western United States. Once in the 1980s, his plane went down when […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 1:03 AM
     GORNJE NEDELJICE, Serbia (AP) — Zlatko Kokanović does not want a lithium mine in his backyard and he will do anything he can to stop it from opening. "All of us here, we are ready to lose our lives," the 48-year farmer told The Associated Press. "They can shoot. That is the only way they […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 12:39 AM
     Asian stocks were higher Friday after U.S. stocks rallied Thursday in Wall Street's latest sharp swerve after a better-than-expected report on unemployment eased worries about the slowing economy. U.S. futures and oil prices were little changed. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index closed 0.6% higher at 35,025.00. The yen erased earlier losses in morning trading […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 12:22 AM
     WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Friday marked the start of the annual Florida Python Challenge, where hunters head into the Everglades to track down invasive Burmese pythons in hopes of grabbing a share of $30,000 in prizes. The annual 10-day hunt, which started more than a decade ago, promotes public awareness of issues with […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 12:22 AM
     JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The recent rupture of a crucial oil pipeline has sent fresh pain through the economy of South Sudan, where even the security forces haven't been paid in nine months. Some soldiers and civil servants are turning to side hustles or abandoning their jobs. South Sudan's economy largely depends on the […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 12:14 AM
     FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — On Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown and a friend were walking in the middle of Canfield Drive, a two-lane street in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, when a police officer drove by and told them to use the sidewalk. After words were exchanged, the white officer confronted the 18-year-old […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 12:10 AM
     If Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are elected this fall, not only would a woman of color lead the country for the first time, but a Native woman also would govern a state for the first time in U.S. history. Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota and […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 12:10 AM
     BERLIN (AP) — A human rights activist since the 1980s, Oleg Orlov thought Russia had turned a corner when the Soviet Union collapsed and a democratically elected president became leader. But then Vladimir Putin rose to power, crushing dissent and launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Finally, the 71-year-old Orlov was himself thrown in prison […]
CityNews Toronto Friday, August 9, 2024 12:09 AM
     FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown once told his father the "world is going to know my name," words Michael Brown Sr. still takes to heart. Friday marks 10 years since the 18-year-old was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, turning the St. Louis suburb into the focal point of the national reckoning […]
G-Alt cp24.com Thursday, August 8, 2024 11:11 PM
     CP24 – Breaking News, Toronto News Today. CP24. Dead woman found entangled in baggage machinery at Chicago airport. The Associated Press, Staff.
G-Alt cp24.com Thursday, August 8, 2024 7:24 PM
     17 and 19-year-old arrested in plot to attack Taylor Swift concert. -Cyclist has minor injuries after being struck by a flatbed truck.
Ottawa Citizen Thursday, August 8, 2024 11:16 PM
     The dark clouds hovering over TD Place on a wild and wet night had some silver linings for the Ottawa Redblacks on Thursday. In the end, the Saskatchewan Roughriders were unable to completely rain on their parade. The bizarre evening of events ended in a 22-22 tie that improved the Redblacks to 5-2-1 and improved […]
The Province Thursday, August 8, 2024 11:33 PM
     Joey Kenward was diagnosed with leukemia last November
Saskatoon StarPhoenix Friday, August 9, 2024 1:01 AM
     "Early in the game I thought we did a good job of getting guys on. We just either didn't move them over or cash them in on our chances. We were trying to do too much and got ahead of ourselves..."
Saskatoon StarPhoenix Friday, August 9, 2024 12:08 AM
     All of Canada — starting with the entire village of Borden and fanning out across the nation — was watching as Sutherland ran on the world stage against the world's best in Paris.
Regina Leader-Post Friday, August 9, 2024 12:25 AM
     It appeared as though the Roughriders secured Thursday night's game in Ottawa before the Command Centre overruled a call on the field, which allowed the Redblacks to ultimately tie the game
National Observer Friday, August 9, 2024 2:04 AM
     Also the strongest Indigenous dictum of the year and two more films
Calgary Herald Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:25 PM
     Online posts have identified the firefighter killed in the Jasper blaze as 24-year-old Morgan Kitchen. Kitchen, a Calgarian, was an Alberta Wildfire crew member who served in the Canadian Armed Forces and the British Royal Marines, according to a social media tribute post. The tribute describes Kitchen as bold, brilliant and 100 per cent authentic […]
Vancouver Sun Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:41 PM
     Derik Lord, who was a teen when he participated in a murder plot aimed at getting an inheritance, still maintains his innocence
Vancouver Sun Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:22 PM
     The Hawaii Martin Mars is set to take off from Port Alberni's Sproat Lake on Sunday for its flight to the B.C. Aviation Museum in North Saanich