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Firefighter killed while battling Donnie Creek wildfire in B.C.
A firefighter has been killed while fighting the massive Donnie Creek wildfire in northeastern British Columbia, marking the second such fatality in the province this month during this year's record f...
Jul 29, 2023
Source: Tiger-Cats QB Mitchell returning to six-game injured list with leg fracture
TORONTO - The Hamilton Tiger-Cats will once again be without quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell for a significant period of time. According to a CFL source, Mitchell suffered a fracture in his lower right l...
Jul 29, 2023
Jimmy Graham is grateful to be back with the Saints and confident he can still play
METAIRIE, La. (AP) - Jimmy Graham offered a few reasons why - at age 36 and without having played football last year - he could become a playmaker again for the New Orleans Saints. "I'm feeling better...
Jul 29, 2023
Toronto Blue Jays place Canadian closer Jordan Romano on 15-day injured list
Toronto Blue Jays closer Jordan Romano has been placed on the 15-day injured list, the club announced Saturday. The 30-year-old from Markham, Ont., left Friday night's 4-1 win over the Los Angeles Ang...
Jul 29, 2023
'Perfectly excited': Canadian scientists await first look at bits from asteroid Bennu
A group of Canadian scientists is awaiting delivery of an outer space postcard from the past. On Sept. 24, seven years after it blasted off from its Florida launch pad, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is...
Jul 29, 2023
Hard work returns Hyun-Jin Ryu to Blue Jays rotation after Tommy John surgery
TORONTO - Hyun-Jin Ryu couldn't wait to get to work. Having just undergone the second Tommy John surgery of his career - the first procedure on his ulnar collateral ligament happened when he was a tee...
Jul 29, 2023
Bronny James plays piano, dines out in video, photos emerging days after he suffers cardiac arrest
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Bronny James plays piano in a video posted by his father, LeBron James, on Saturday, four days after the teenager went into cardiac arrest during a basketball workout at the Univers...
Jul 29, 2023
F1 leader Verstappen wins rain-hit Belgian GP sprint race; Piastri is second
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (AP) - Two-time reigning Formula One champion Max Verstappen won the rain-hit sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday to extend his huge lead over Red Bull teammat...
Jul 29, 2023
Excitement, optimism as hundreds line up to ride Montreal's new light-rail train line
MONTREAL - The opening of the Montreal metro area's new light-rail train network is drawing hundreds of curious prospective passengers to the city's central station today, many of them expressing exci...
Jul 29, 2023
Canada's Liendo breaks own national record, wins silver in men's 100-metre butterfly
FUKUOKA, Japan - Canada's Josh Liendo won silver in the men's 100-metre butterfly with a Canadian record time at the World Aquatics Championships on Saturday. The 20-year-old from Toronto clocked in a...
Jul 29, 2023