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Mariners acquire right-handers Whalen, Povse from Braves
FILE - This Aug. 23, 2016 file photo shows Atlanta Braves' Rob Whalen throwing a pitch against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the first inning of a baseball game in Phoenix. The Seattle Mariners acquired right-handers Rob Whalen and Max Povse from the Atlanta Braves on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016 for outfield prospect Alex Jackson and a player to be named. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)
Shame on the toll critics – Tory needs all the support he can get
Marcus Gee
Trump to nominate Georgia Rep. Tom Price as health secretary
Elevators close on Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., as he arrives at Trump Tower, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
New York Islanders beat Calgary Flames 2-1
Mark Giordano #5 and Brian Elliott #1 of the Calgary Flames defend against John Tavares #91 of the New York Islanders during the third period at the Barclays Center on November 28, 2016 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The Islanders defeated the Flames 2-1 in overtime.
Recharged Toronto Raptors takes Philadelphia 76ers to task
Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry (7) drives to the net against Philadelphia 76ers guard Gerald Henderson (12) during first half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Monday, November 28, 2016.
1 dead after shots fired into South Texas grocery store
Saskatchewan asked to end ‘two-for-one’ MRI program
Minister of Health Jane Philpott speaks to reporters following a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016.
Calgary man charged with attempted murder in attack on Regina cab driver
Ottawa urged to reject retirement home bid by Chinese group Anbang
Anbang Insurance Group has made a bid on a majority stake in one of British Columbia’s biggest retirement homes.
Lowry goes perfect from three-point range to lift Raptors over Sixers 122-95
Toronto Raptors centre Jonas Valanciunas (17) slam dunks the ball past Philadelphia 76ers centre Jahlil Okafor (8) during first half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Monday, November 28, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Hickey's OT goal helps Isles stay strong at home vs Flames
Alberta cuts political donation cap, limits party spending
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley speaks at the legislature on April 11, 2016. On Monday, Alberta’s NDP government introduced dramatic cuts to the amount of cash individuals can donate to political parties and candidates.
Fisherman seriously injured by shark off Australian coast
Coca-Cola No. 1 in Japan with drinks galore, but not Coke
GOP challenger wants recount in Minnesota US House election
F1 championship in 2017 to showcase young driving talent
Canadian teenager Lance Stroll will replace veteran Felipe Massa in Williams Martini Racing’s driver line-up for the 2017 season.
Despite officiating issues, Impact ready for second leg of East final
Montreal Impact defender Hassoun Camara joked that the team had to head to the gym to avoid being overpowered by Toronto FC’s Jozy Altidore, but they knows the big striker’s physical play, plus Sebastian Giovinco’s elusiveness, are things they will have to watch for.
The Latest: 3 dead, 5 sickened after Thanksgiving dinner
UVic proposes joint indigenous-Canadian common law degree
Ryan Nicolson, left, of the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation, is seen with his great-uncle, Robert Joseph, right, in a potlatch in March in Alert Bay. Dr. Joseph was presented with a talking stick to recognize his work with Reconciliation Canada.
Tiger Woods gets back to golf with questions about head, not body
Tiger Woods is planning on returning to competition after the longest layoff of his career, and golfers from Ernie Els to Davis Love III are excited to see him back on the green.
Toronto FC hopes to win right to play MLS Cup game at home
Toronto FC’s Sebastian Giovinco, left, defends Impact midfielder Patrice Bernier during the first leg of the MLS Eastern Conference Championship at Olympic Stadium in Montreal on Nov. 22.
On TV and Twitter, Trump aides publicly pick sides in battle for top jobs
Retired General David Petraeus speaks to members of the media while leaving Trump Tower on November 28, 2016 in New York City.
The two sides of Trump
John Ibbitson
West Coast musician Doug Edwards composed Wildflower for Skylark
Doug Edwards is seen performing with Chilliwack.
Bo Horvat makes case for leader of post-Sedin era in Vancouver
Vancouver Canucks centre Bo Horvat controls the puck ahead of Colorado Avalanche centre Mikhail Grigorenko on Nov. 26, 2016.
Samsung to boost dividends, review corporate structure
FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2016 file photo, a visitor walks by Samsung Electronics TV screens at Korea Electronics Show or KES in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung Electronics said Tuesday, Nov. 29 it will increase shareholder returns and review its corporate structure as investors step up pressure to reform the South Korean tech giant's governance structure following the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
Run, hide, fight: Ohio State attack advice is a new mantra
Uncertainty over Canada’s economic outlook sets bar high for rate change, Poloz says
Stephen Poloz, Governor of the Bank of Canada, meets wth the Globe and Mail editorial board on on Nov 28 2016.
Growing conservative view in France leaves future unclear for country, continent
Former French prime minister and member of Les Republicains political party, Francois Fillon delivers a speech after partial results in the second round for the French center-right presidential primary election in Paris, France.
Fast-acting Ohio State officer praised for killing attacker
A car inside a police line sits on the sidewalk as authorities respond to an attack on campus at Ohio State University, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Review: Chastain enlivens political thriller 'Miss Sloane'
DirecTV wants to be the next online substitute for cable
FILE - In this Monday, May 19, 2014, file photo, traders gather at the post that handles AT&T on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. There are already a few online services that aim to replace cable, but they don’t have many users yet. AT&T’s DirecTV hopes to change that. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
B.C. announces 1,900 new campsites in $23 million expansion plan
Lawsuit: Kansas State's inaction led to another rape
Man granted Canadian residency asks Federal Court to clear name
Sanctuary-seeker Jose Figueroa speaks during a press conference at the University of Victoria on Nov. 28, 2016, prior to a federal court hearing examining a CBSA decision labelling him a terrorist.
Young cougars destroyed after becoming too used to humans in coastal B.C. town
GOP prepares for House vote on medical research bill
FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. speaks at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. Warren says a bill providing extra money for medical research is “extortion” and a giveaway to big biomedical companies. She also said the bill benefits a Republican donor who backs controversial therapies that are supposed to regenerate cells. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)
Too soon for Bank of Canada to factor in Donald Trump's win: Stephen Poloz
NDP wants limits on donations to political parties in Saskatchewan
Woman from Guatemala dies while in ICE custody in Arizona
Europe's match-fixing problem highlighted by players' survey
San Francisco's public railway system hit by hackers
Facts and figures about Alberta's helmet law for off-highway vehicle drivers
San Francisco's sinking tower seen from space
FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2016 file photo, is the Millennium Tower in San Francisco. Engineers in San Francisco have tunneled underground to try and understand the sinking of the 58-story Millennium Tower. Now comes an analysis from space. The European Space Agency has satellite imagery it says confirms the skyscraper, which has sunk 16 inches, is steadily sinking at a rate of almost 2 inches a year. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
Nevada homicide suspect who broke cuffs named in more cases
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the North Las Vegas Police Department shows Alonso Perez, 25. Authorities say the Nevada homicide suspect who escaped from police custody in September 2016, before being recaptured four days later has been linked to two additional slayings. (The North Las Vegas Police Department via AP, file)
Obama signs bill to improve crisis hotline
Some blacks applaud Castro legacy of racial equality
Orders could have little effect on pipeline protest camp
In this Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 photo, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier looks up from his desk in Mandan, N.D. Kirchmeier has led the police response to the Dakota Access oil pipeline protests, and shrugs off criticism that that response has been heavy-handed at times, saying that he and his officers have properly enforced the law against protesters whose tactics have become increasingly aggressive. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)
2 Los Angeles County deputies get prison after jail beating
Redblacks' 39-33 overtime Grey Cup win attracts 10 million viewers
The Latest: Higgins won't contest results of Millett race
Several more Kmart stores to close in Michigan next month
Fifteen top-ranked TSX small-cap dividend payers
Flat returns belie a big increase in volatility, including a sell-off of almost 20 per cent at the end of the summer that investors had made up by late fall.
Venezuelan served sentence for drugs, now faces deportation
The Latest: Crowd fills library for public forum on pipeline
Escape occurred before California jail could be replaced
Man charged in Old Navy explosion amid string of vandalism
Workers clean up an Old Navy store in Albuquerque, N.M. on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, two days after authorities say an explosive device damaged the store. Federal authorities charged a man on Monday with using an explosive device to damage the store, where a string of local, overnight fires and instances of vandalism during the busiest shopping weekend of the year also damaged three Starbucks shops, a Barnes & Noble and other establishments in New Mexico's largest city. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
Murder charge dismissed against 1 of 2 Albuquerque officers
FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2016, file photo, Dominique Perez, a former Albuquerque police officer and SWAT member, looks on during his trial in Bernalillo County Court in Albuquerque, N.M. A special prosecutor has dismissed a second-degree murder charge against Perez, one of two former Albuquerque police officers who fatally shot a homeless man during an hourslong standoff. Special Prosecutor Randi McGinn filed the notice to dismiss the charge against Perez Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in the March 2014 shooting that killed camper James Boyd. (AP Photo/Juan Labreche, Pool, File)
From milk to lightbulbs, Fidel Castro reshaped life in Cuba
A man walks his daughter back from school past a wall with a mural of the late Fidel Castro, flanked by a quote from Castro that says in Spanish: "Fight against the impossible and overcome" in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. Cubans on Monday began bidding farewell to Castro, the man who ruled the island for nearly half a century. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
NDP says Liberals using lack of consensus as excuse to do nothing
Alberta proposes new rules to lower and limit campaign spending and advertising
AFP Sports Photos of the Year 2016
AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 Egypt's Ibrahim Hamadtou competes in table tennis at the Riocentro during the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 9, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOPHE SIMONCHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images
Pence aide cancelled lobbying contract ahead of ban
Vice president-elect Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind., arrives at Trump Tower, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
The Monday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
General Jonathan Vance, Chief of the Defence Staff speaks as the Canadian Armed Forces addresses the findings of a Statistics Canada Survey on sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces during a news conference at National defence headquaters in Ottawa on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Manitoba to try reopening public sector contracts, reduce salaries: premier
Ex-Alberta MLA Kerry Towle says she was harassed during time in politics
Sandra Jansen dropped out of the Tory leadership race and crossed to the NDP after taunts at a policy convention and social media attacks which she said had become unbearable. Former MLA Kerry Towle says she was also subject to harassment when she switched parties.
California GOP Congressman Darrell Issa narrowly wins seat
Parti Quebecois urges Quebec government to act on trial delay crisis
Parti Quebecois MNA Veronique Hivon announces her intention to run for the leadership of the party at a press conference in Joliette, Que., on May 9, 2016. The Parti Quebecois is urging the Quebec government to act quickly to address the problem of lengthy trial delays.Justice critic Hivon says the crisis in Quebec's judicial system is unprecedented and she is urging Justice Minister Stephanie Vallee to adopt measures and pump resources into the system to help speed up cases and get them to trial.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Alberta law calls for people to wear helmets when using off-highway vehicles
If investment advisers disappear, how will companies raise money?
Bay Area homicide being investigated as possible hate crime
Canadian Food Inspection Agency triples 'high risk' bovine TB farm list
Law enforcement condemns letters threatening Muslims
Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Michael Downing talks with Sayed Moustafa al-Qazwini, founding Imam of the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County at a news conference at the Islamic Center of Southern California in Los Angeles Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. Government officials have condemned a hate-filled letter received by several California mosques that said Muslims would be exterminated by President-elect Donald Trump. Downing said that Los Angeles police are investigating two letters received by mosques in the city as a hate incident, but not a crime at this point. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
United Airlines 747 returns to SF after engine failure
Japan not ready to abandon TPP, waits to deal directly with Canada
Canada hoped to deepen their economic ties with Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, through their joint membership in the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership.
A timeline of asylum seeker Jose Figueroa's case
Labour group decries Ottawa’s proposed pension policy changes
Finance Minister Bill Morneau speaks during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Nov. 23, 2016.
Rates rise on US Treasury bills to highest in 2 weeks
Business Highlights
CBC seeks annual funding boost of $318-million to go ad-free
CBC is pictured in a file photo.
3 murder warrants issued for SC man sheriff said killed 7
FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016, file photo, Todd Kohlhepp's enters the courtroom of Judge Jimmy Henson for a bond hearing at the Spartanburg Detention Facility in Spartanburg, S.C. Deputies have formally charged Kohlhepp, suspected of being a serial killer, with three additional counts of murder for bodies found buried on his land. The arrest warrants issued Monday, Nov. 28, against Kohlhepp were for killings that Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright already said the 45-year-old real estate agent was responsible for. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro, File)
Decommissions divert office debris from landfill
Telus has decommissioned at least 18 offices over the past five years, with 95 per cent of the waste from those projects diverted from landfill.
Japanese pension fund surges in wake of Trump factor
In this Nov. 4, 2016 file photo, Donald Trump speaks in Hershey, Pa.
Why your family needs an investment policy statement
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After high of winning at home, Impact set for hostile reception in second playoff leg
Montreal Impact defender Hassoun Camara kicks the ball away from Orlando City FC defender Luke Boden during first half MLS action in Montreal, in a September 7, 2016, file photo. Camara joked that the Montreal Impact had to head to the gym to avoid being overpowered by Toronto FC 's Jozy Altidore, but they know the big striker's physical play, plus Sebastian Giovinco's elusiveness, are things they will have to watch for as tey take a one-goal lead into the second leg of the MLS Eastern Conference final in hostile territory. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Canucks defenceman Alexander Edler out at least a month with broken finger
Recounts are rare and seldom lead to a different winner
Imprisoned Hastert fights for tax-covered pension
FILE - In this April 27, 2016, file photo, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert departs the federal courthouse in Chicago. Hastert, is behind bars in a hush-money case that stemmed from his sexual abuse of students when he taught and coached at an Illinois school over 35 years ago. Already hit financially by his prosecution and conviction he is now pointing to a technicality to argue that a state body should restore the $17,000 pension it yanked within hours of his April 27, 2016 sentencing. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
Liberals changed fighter jet requirement, says air force commander
Toronto FC groundskeeper says BMO Field grass came out of Grey Cup in good shape
Ottawa Redblacks fullback Brendan Gillanders puts grass on the ball from the natural turf of the BMO field during the Eastern Conference practice, in Toronto on Saturday, November 26, 2016. Toronto FC head groundskeeper Robert Heggie says Sunday's Grey Cup should not leave any kind of hangover for Toronto FC when it comes to the BMO Field playing surface for the midweek.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Green leader poised to deliver stern rebuke on Island's electoral reform efforts
Prince Edward Island Green Leader Peter Bevan-Baker speaks during a televised debate in Summerside, P.E.I., on April 27, 2015. Bevan-Baker is expected to stand in the legislature Tuesday to rebuke the provincial government - and offer a warning to the Trudeau Liberals on democratic reform.THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Morris
Texas announces its first locally transmitted Zika case
CBC/Radio-Canada wants to move to ad-free model with $318M in new annual funding
A man leaves the CBC building in Toronto on Wednesday, April 4, 2012. CBC/Radio-Canada wants all its services to broadcast ad-free ??? but will need $318 million in new annual funding to do so. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Trudeau on Castro: Get us rewrite, pronto
FILE--Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau looks on as Cuban President Fidel Castro gestures during a visit to a Havana housing project in this Jan. 27, 1976 photo. (CP PICTURE ARCHIVE/Fred Chartrand)
Black Boys explores life at the crossroads of black and queer
Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Thomas Olajide and Tawiah M’Carthy.
Lawyer: Driver likely to plead not guilty in fatal bus crash
FILE - This undated file photo released by the Chattanooga Police Department shows Johnthony Walker. Attorney Amanda Dunn says she anticipates Walker, the driver of a school bus that was filled with elementary students when it crashed, Nov. 21, 2016, will plead not guilty if a grand jury indicts him. He's charged with five counts of vehicular homicide. Police say another count will be added. (Chattanooga Police Department via AP, File)
Fruit of the Loom CEO dies at age 68
AP FACT CHECK: Trump won presidency but lost popular vote
In this Nov. 8, 2016, file photo, people vote at a polling place set up at the Kenter Canyon Elementary School in Los Angeles. Tweets alone don’t make it true. Donald Trump won the presidency earlier this month even as he lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to The Associated Press’s vote-counting operation and election experts. Trump nonetheless tweeted on Nov. 26 that he won the popular vote. and alleged there was “serious voter fraud” in California, New Hampshire and Virginia. There’s no evidence to back up those claims. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, file)
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