CityNews - Vancouver (37 minutes ago)
The Toronto Blue Jays will head to Seattle in a 0-2 hole. Toronto lost Game 2 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night, 10-3, after the Mariners blasted a trio of multi-run homers. Seattle didn’t take long to get on the scoreboard, as Blue Jays starter Trey Yesavage allowed the first two hitters to reach […]
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TORONTO – Already during this captivating run to the American League Championship Series, the Toronto Blue Jays have conquered so many of the hills – not maxing out their talent; not winning the AL East; zero playoff victories; not taking a post-season series – that felled them in years past. So, it's perhaps fitting then that their […]
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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is off to Egypt this afternoon to take part in a summit surrounding the truce U.S. President Donald Trump helped arrange between Israel and Hamas. Carney is heading to the city of Sharm el-Sheikh, joining other world leaders Monday where Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi says he will co-chair a […]
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Thanksgiving dinner is looking a bit different for one Vancouver couple this year. The normally well-stocked table, with Turkey and all the fixings, will be replaced with a takeaway turkey sandwich with cranberry sauce, and the usual dinner table conversation replaced with a much-awaited Blue Jays baseball game, said Helen Vlahos. Vlahos was...
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The Toronto Blue Jays will meet their expansion cousins in the American League Championship Series after the Seattle Mariners won the deciding Game 5 of their Division Series with the Detroit Tigers 3-2 in 15 innings on Friday. Facing a full count, Jorge Polanco hit a single off Tommy Kahnle to score J.P. Crawford. Neither team had scored since...
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British Columbia’s coroners service say 153 people died in July from unregulated toxic drugs and another 149 deaths occurred in August. Those numbers are up slightly from the previous two months when the service reported 145 people died in May and 147 people died in June. A government statement says the number of unregulated drug […]
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On Dec. 13, 1981, the government of Poland declared martial law. It outlawed the Solidarity Federation of Unions and threw its leader, Lech Walesa, in jail. He was detained for a year before being released. Once out, he continued the fight against the oppressive rule of the Polish government. Walesa was forced underground to continue […]
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Mail delivery is set to resume on a limited basis after the union representing Canada Post employees announced it would transition from a countrywide strike to rotating strikes starting Saturday morning. The decision, announced late Thursday night, will get mail and parcels moving again, even as the Canadian Union of Postal Workers says rotating...
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The Government of Canada boasted about the successful results of its national action plan on combatting auto theft on Thursday. Officials say the plan has driven targeted efforts to prevent vehicle theft, recover stolen vehicles and stop their export, all while combating organized criminal networks. "Auto theft is declining because of our strong...
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