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Canadian lightweight John (The Bull) Makdessi added to UFC 241 card  Souris Plain DealerTORONTO — Veteran Canadian lightweight John (The Bull) Makdessi will face American Devonte (King Kage) Smith next month at UFC 241 in Anaheim.

Green and NDP leaders will have election battle in Winnipeg constituency  Souris Plain DealerWINNIPEG — Two party leaders are set to fight over the same seat in Manitoba's fall election.Manitoba Green Party Leader James Beddome has registered to ...

Twitter investigating widespread outage that lasted more than an hour  Souris Plain DealerSAN FRANCISCO — Twitter is investigating a problem that affected *service* to its users in the United States, Canada and Europe for more than an hour Thursday ...

NDP's Singh says Canada needs a national cycling strategy  Souris Plain DealerOTTAWA — NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is a well-known cycling enthusiast whose folding bike seems to travel almost everywhere he does.Singh now wants to ...

Taxpayers helped fund 'Tonight Show' broadcast in Minnesota  Souris Plain DealerST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota taxpayers helped foot the bill when Jimmy Fallon broadcast "The Tonight Show" from Minneapolis as part of last year's Super ...

All-Star Game television rating sets record low  Souris Plain DealerNEW YORK — Baseball's All-Star Game had a record low television rating.The American League's 4-3 win over the National League on Tuesday night in ...

Forwards Armia, Lehkonen agree to two-year contracts with Canadiens  Souris Plain DealerMONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens have signed Finnish forwards Joel Armia and Artturi Lehkonen to two-year contracts.Armia's contract has an average ...

Forward Joel Armia agrees to two-year deal with Montreal Canadiens  Souris Plain DealerMONTREAL — Joel Armia signed a two-year deal with the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday afternoon.The contract has an average annual value of US$2.6 ...

White man indicted in killing of black teen over rap music  Souris Plain DealerPHOENIX — A white man who authorities say was out of prison for two days when he stabbed a black teen on July 4th because he felt threatened by the youth's ...

Trudeau Liberals pledge $150M toward big-data cancer research initiative  Souris Plain DealerOTTAWA — Months after first promising money to a cancer research network bearing Terry Fox's name, the federal health minister touted the spending at an ...

Controversial Chateau Laurier expansion not good enough, McKenna says  Souris Plain DealerOTTAWA — Environment Minister Catherine McKenna wants the owners of the Chateau Laurier to come up with another plan for an addition to the historic hotel ...

Bernie Sanders plans trip to Canada with group seeking cheaper insulin  Souris Plain DealerTORONTO — American presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said on Thursday that he would soon be coming to Canada with a group of diabetics to buy ...

IndyCar rookies Rosenqvist, Ferrucci looking to repeat past success in Toronto  Souris Plain DealerTORONTO — IndyCar rookie Santino Ferrucci will be looking to repeat the success he found eight years ago when he raced on the Honda Indy Toronto track for ...

Purl jam: Finland hosts heavy metal knitting championship  Souris Plain DealerJOENSUU, Finland — Armed with needles and a yarn of wool, teams of avid knitters danced Thursday to the deafening sounds of drums beating and guitars ...

Teuns wins Tour de France Stage 6, Ciccone takes race lead  Souris Plain DealerCHAMPAGNEY, France — Two Tour de France rookies stole the show on the first mountain stage, with Dylan Teuns of Belgium winning Stage 6 and Giulio ...

Cases dropped, charges lowered as court-martial system remains in limbo  Souris Plain DealerOTTAWA — Canadian military prosecutors and police have dropped several cases and are changing the way they lay charges as they wait for the Supreme ...

Room for 'reasonable' price increases for TV, internet, says Cogeco CEO  Souris Plain DealerTORONTO — The CEO of Canada's fourth-largest publicly traded cable and internet company said Thursday that there's still room to introduce "reasonable" ...

Amazon, seeking more skilled workers, will do the training  Souris Plain DealerNEW YORK — Amazon, needing a more tech-savvy workforce, is offering to pay to retrain its employees and help them switch to more technical jobs at Amazon ...

Pikangikum First Nation forest fire evacuees start arriving in Saskatchewan  Souris Plain DealerResidents of a First Nation threatened by a growing forest fire in northwestern Ontario began arriving in Regina on Thursday after the Saskatchewan government ...

Dozens injured aboard Air Canada flight after plane hits turbulence  Souris Plain DealerMONTREAL — About three dozen passengers and crew were injured Thursday when an Air Canada flight travelling from Toronto to Sydney, Australia, ...

'Not about 24': Williams to face Halep in Wimbledon final  Souris Plain DealerWIMBLEDON, England — Hours before her Wimbledon semifinal, Serena Williams spent some time deep in thought and arrived at a couple of conclusions.

Freeland calls ex-envoy's advice to China about election 'highly inappropriate'  Souris Plain DealerOTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is distancing the Trudeau government from its former ambassador to China, a day after he said he has ...

Raptors officially sign forward Stanley Johnson, guard Terence Davis  Souris Plain DealerTORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have officially signed forward Stanley Johnson and guard Terence Davis.The team did not release terms of the contracts.

Canadian featherweight Julia Budd looks for third straight Bellator title defence  Souris Plain DealerCanadian Julia (The Jewel) Budd says she is fighting for her legacy when she defends her Bellator featherweight title for a third time Friday night against ...

Hospital fires 23 workers in case of excessive doses, deaths  Souris Plain DealerCOLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio hospital system says it's firing 23 more employees and changing leadership after investigating excessive painkiller doses given to ...

Aimia shareholder claims chairman's 'outrageous conduct' at AGM demands a redo  Souris Plain DealerMONTREAL — A group of shareholders at Aimia Inc. are calling for a redo of last month's annual general meeting, which they say was "plagued with ...

Poet and former Youth Laureate Amanda Gorman has book deal  Souris Plain DealerNEW YORK — Former Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman is working on a picture book.Viking Children's Books announced Thursday that Gorman's "Change ...

Police seek driver for possible lead in Winnipeg woman's homicide  Souris Plain DealerWinnipeg police think they have a potential new lead in the death of a Winnipeg woman who disappeared exactly four years ago and was later found dead.

England trounces Australia, reaches Cricket World Cup final  Souris Plain DealerBIRMINGHAM, England — England reached its first Cricket World Cup final in 27 years by trouncing defending champion Australia by eight wickets on Thursday ...

Developer to return disputed land to Kanesatake Mohawks as ecological gift  Souris Plain DealerMONTREAL — A Quebec land developer has signed an agreement with the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake to return a parcel of pine forest that was central to ...

Developer offers disputed Oka land to Kanesatake Mohawks as ecological gift  Souris Plain DealerMONTREAL — A Quebec land developer says he's signed an agreement with the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake to return a parcel of forest that was central to ...

Rattlesnake, uranium, whiskey found during traffic stop  Souris Plain DealerGUTHRIE, Okla. — Police in Oklahoma say they found a rattlesnake, a canister of radioactive powdered uranium and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey ...

Cenovus produces one billionth barrel from thermal oilsands operations  Souris Plain DealerCALGARY — Cenovus Energy Inc. says its thermal oilsands operations in northern Alberta produced their one billionth barrel of bitumen on Wednesday.

Indigo maintains global brand ambitions despite challenging year for bookseller  Souris Plain DealerTORONTO — Indigo Books & Music Inc.'s CEO says the company is changing up its strategy after a challenging year for the bookseller, but still maintains its ...

Toronto FC moves on, says goodbye to homegrown striker Jordan Hamilton  Souris Plain DealerToronto FC said goodbye to one of its own Thursday, dealing homegrown product Jordan Hamilton to Columbus Crew SC for American striker Patrick Mullins.

Nielsen's top programs for July 1-7  Souris Plain DealerNEW YORK — Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for July 1-7. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.1. "America's Got Talent," ...

Mexican actor Pablo Lyle request 'Stand Your Ground' hearing  Souris Plain DealerMIAMI — Mexican actor Pablo Lyle says he wants his manslaughter case dismissed under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" self-defence law for fatally punching a ...

David Bromberg fears huge violin collection must be split up  Souris Plain DealerWLIMINGTON, Del. — David Bromberg, a master of stringed-instrument Americana, says a deal to sell his massive collection of historic violins to the Library of ...

Skopje zoo's chimp returns after recovering from depression  Souris Plain DealerKoko the chimpanzee, once a star in Skopje's zoo, has returned home after spending 10 years in the Netherlands recovering from depression, the zoo says.

Taylor Swift shakes off drama with fun concert performance  Souris Plain DealerNEW YORK — In her first public appearance since discovering her masters were in the hands of someone she's not a fan of, Taylor Swift didn't directly address ...

'Robot umpires' debut in independent Atlantic League  Souris Plain DealerYORK, Pa. — "Robot umpires" have arrived.The independent Atlantic League became the first American professional baseball league to let a computer call balls ...

NY judge OKs Weinstein defence team recasting  Souris Plain DealerNEW YORK — With one lawyer bolting amid public backlash and another saying he and his client just couldn't get along, a judge on Thursday approved a ...

Horse euthanized after injury in Calgary Stampede chuckwagon race  Souris Plain DealerCALGARY — A horse has died from an injury that occurred during a chuckwagon race at this year's Calgary Stampede.Stampede authorities confirm something ...

Twitter taps Canada as test market for new 'hide' tweet feature  Souris Plain DealerOTTAWA — Twitter launched an experiment in Canada Thursday to give users in this country the ability to hide replies to tweets on its social-media platform, in a ...

Weinstein overhauling legal team as trial looms in 60 days  Souris Plain DealerNEW YORK — With one lawyer bolting amid public backlash and another saying he and his client just couldn't get along, Harvey Weinstein is recasting his ...

Judge approves new Weinstein legal team led by #MeToo critic  Souris Plain DealerNEW YORK — A judge gave Harvey Weinstein the green light Thursday to shake up his defence team yet again — this time a mere two months before the ...

The Latest: Weinstein in court over defence team issue  Souris Plain DealerNEW YORK — The Latest on a hearing on efforts to recast Harvey Weinstein's legal team (all times local):9:25 a.m.Harvey Weinstein is back in a New York ...

Survey reveals width of gap between Canadian, U.S. attitudes on abortion  Souris Plain DealerIn May 2011, after voters in Canada delivered what Stephen Harper described in his election night speech as a “a strong, stable, national Conservative majority ...

Trump shows love-hate for social media as he leads 'summit'  Souris Plain DealerWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, who has weaponized social media to eviscerate opponents and promote himself, was convening a White House ...

Trump applauds far-right social media provocateurs  Souris Plain DealerWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump used a White House conference Thursday to applaud far-right social media provocateurs even as he conceded that ...