MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a three-run homer, Teoscar Hernandez homered for the second straight day and the Toronto Blue Jays cruised to a 9-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Thursday night. Whit Merrifield, who revealed earlier in the day that he is now vaccinated against COVID-19 and cleared to play in …
A young British Columbia man alleges that Joseph Burke, a former Christian Brother who was convicted of abusing children at a Newfoundland orphanage in the early 1970s, sexually assaulted him numerous times from 2007 to 2009. The man, known as John B. Doe in court documents, says Burke was his teacher at Vancouver College, a …
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NASA: An asteroid named 2022 OE02 is expected to come dangerously close to Earth | WION WION shorts Asteroid just missed Earth today by a small margin HT Tech Close Encounter with Asteroid 2022 OE2 on August 4 Livescience.com Asteroid passes in front of Earth just days after being discovered by NASA The Independent Asteroid …
Rachel Jones wonders how much longer she and her son would have waited in a Halifax emergency room if he hadn’t escaped and tried to kill himself. Jones brought her 24-year-old son to the QEII Health Sciences Center last month because he was depressed, manic and suicidal. CBC News is not naming Jones’ son, but …
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When Aimee Dunn learned that a patient died alone in a Fredericton emergency room waiting room less than four months after losing her baby in the same emergency room, she felt pain again and anger “My baby looked perfect,” said Dunn, who had to deliver a stillborn baby girl by C-section on March 23 at …
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A man was more than three times over the legal limit after a two-vehicle crash on Torbay Road in St John’s in the early evening. The 48-year-old man was charged with drunk driving and the RNC confiscated his driver’s license and vehicle. He was released to appear in court at a later date.
Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada will make clear his country’s disappointment Thursday at Canada’s decision to allow pipeline equipment that was in Montreal for repairs to be returned to a state-controlled energy giant in Russia despite war-related sanctions. Yulia Kovaliv is to appear before a committee of MPs looking into Ottawa’s decision to allow a turbine …
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A Toronto woman is facing charges in connection with an alleged international phone scam targeting seniors. An investigation began in December 2021 after the Greater Toronto RCMP Transnational Organized Crime (TSOC) unit received information from the RCMP in Prince Edward Island. RCMP said the investigation began when an elderly Canadian man was defrauded of more …
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An Ottawa community association says it wants the city to intervene in the impending sale of a local church to a group with suspected ties to the Freedom Convoy. The previous owners of St. Bridget’s Church, located in Lowertown, recently agreed to sell it to The United People of Canada (TUPC) — a group that …
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A chef from Hamilton, Ontario. has won a big lottery prize for the second time. According to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission (OLG), 55-year-old John Mekho collected $91,205.10 from an Instant RELOAD ticket. In a statement at the OLG Prize Center in Toronto, he said that when he bought the ticket and reset the …
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