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TORONTO — Indian writer Pankaj Mishra has won a prestigious Canadian award of $75,000 for an international non-fiction author. The Writers’ Trust of Canada says Mishra is the second-ever recipient of the Weston International Award. The prize goes to an author from outside of Canada who has produced an outstanding body of non-fiction work. Jurors […]

TORONTO — Designated hitter Brandon Lowe smacked a two-run homer in the fifth inning to help the Tampa Bay Rays take a series-opening 4-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday. Trailing 3-0, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Justin Turner began the sixth inning with back-to-back homers off reliever Manuel Rodriguez. It was Guerrero’s team-leading […]

TORONTO (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Taylor Walls said Tuesday that his Donald Trump-inspired celebration of a hit Sunday was not intended as an endorsement of the Republican presidential candidate and added he was unlikely to do it again. Walls pumped his fist and shouted “Fight! Fight! Fight!” after hitting a double against the […]

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Firefighters in the West are scrambling as new wildfires threaten communities in Oregon, California and Washington, with at least one Oregon fire so large that it is creating its own weather. Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon was closed in both directions Tuesday between Ontario and Baker City as flames from the […]

OTTAWA — Federal immigration officials warned the government it risked undermining the temporary immigration system with the design of the emergency visa program for war-displaced Ukrainians, newly released court documents show. Immigration Department staff raised the concern in a memo to Sean Fraser, immigration minister at the time, shortly after the program was announced. The […]

TORONTO — Losses in the energy sector led Canada’s main stock index lower on Tuesday, while U.S. stock markets were also down. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 58.90 points at 22,813.75. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 57.35 points at 40,358.09. The S&P 500 index was down 8.67 points at […]

TORONTO — “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek is being posthumously honoured with a U.S. postage stamp. A sheet of stamps featuring the legendary Canadian-born quiz show host was unveiled on Monday, timed for what would’ve been his 84th birthday. It’s designed to evoke the TV studio of “Jeopardy!” with an archival photograph of Trebek standing beside […]

TORONTO — A man is facing criminal charges after he allegedly sexually assaulted the same person, who he did not know, on three separate occasions in downtown Toronto. Police say officers were called on Sunday afternoon for a report of a sexual assault. They allege a man sexually assaulted someone during three separate occasions over […]

OTTAWA — One of the country’s newest navy ships is tied up in a U.S. port after it took on 20,000 litres of water because of a leak. HMCS Max Bernays is one of Canada’s new Arctic and offshore patrol ships, built in Halifax by Irving Shipyards. It was taking part in an international exercise […]

TORONTO — Hundreds of Ontario’s liquor stores reopened Tuesday following a strike that lasted more than two weeks, but the fighting between the union representing workers and the government dragged on. About 10,000 Liquor Control Board of Ontario workers had returned Monday to prepare for the opening of nearly 700 stores after they walked off […]