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At different ends of salary scale, Pozuelo and Laryea make mark with Toronto FC
NEW YORK - With a salary of US$3.8 million in 2019, Spanish playmaker Alejandro Pozuelo is looking like a bargain for Toronto FC. But Toronto-born fullback Richie Laryea, at the MLS-minimum $56,2...
Oct 26, 2019
Canadian star Andreescu ready to face idol Halep in WTA Finals debut
Bianca Andreescu has grown accustomed to competing against players she grew up idolizing after facing - and beating - so many of them during her breakout season on the WT...
Oct 26, 2019
The Latest: Few documents found on truck victims, no IDs
LONDON - The Latest on the deaths of 39 people in a truck in England (all times local): 3:15 p.m. UK police in Essex say all of the 39 victims found dead in a truck container in southeastern England a...
Oct 26, 2019
Former N.S. police chief found guilty of sexually exploiting teen
BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - A former police chief in Nova Scotia who was described in court as a "father figure" to a 17-year-old girl with mental health issues was convicted Thursday of sexually exploiting t...
Oct 26, 2019
Alberta UCP government tables budget with cuts to civil servants, universities
EDMONTON - Alberta is blazing a new trail for its red-ink economy with a budget that preserves health and education funding but takes a big stick to cities, civil servants and universities. ...
Oct 26, 2019
Liberals: TMX pipeline could fund $500 million a year in clean energy projects
OTTAWA - The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that...
Oct 26, 2019
Life after losing: electoral defeat brings whole new set of challenges
OTTAWA - Brian Murphy barely had time to process losing his seat in the 2011 federal election before the House of Commons wrote to ask if he wanted it back. There was a catch,...
Oct 26, 2019
More Vietnamese fear relatives are among 39 dead in truck
HANOI, Vietnam - More Vietnamese families came forward Saturday with information their relatives may be among the 39 people found dead in the back of a container truck in southeastern England. British...
Oct 26, 2019
Opening new chapter, Spain exhumes Gen. Franco's remains
MADRID - Turning a momentous page in its history, Spain on Thursday exhumed the remains of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from his grandiose mausoleum outside Madrid and reburied them in a small famil...
Oct 26, 2019
Russian agent Butina's plane lands in Moscow
MOSCOW - A flight bringing convicted Russian agent Maria Butina from the United States has landed in Moscow. The Aeroflot plane from Miami touched down Saturday at Sheremetyevo airport shortly before ...
Oct 26, 2019