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  • NewsCBC

    Woman dead after being struck by transport truck on TCH outside St. John's

    Police are investigating after a woman was struck by a transport truck on the Trans-Canada Highway outside St. John's on Tuesday afternoon.According to the RCMP, the woman was walking on the eastbound lane of the highway when she was hit. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Nobody in the truck was injured, police say, and the driver showed no signs of impairment. The incident happened near Thomas Pond, west of Paddy's Pond on the highway.The province's chief medical examiner is investigating,

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  • SportsThe Weather Network

    From frost to feels like 30 — things are heating up quickly in Ontario

    After days with a frost and freeze threat, temperatures will be heating up in southern Ontario this weekend. An active storm track will drag both warmth and moisture into the region, introducing a summer-like humidex

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  • US PoliticsReuters

    Biden pardons 11 people, commutes sentences of five others, says White House

    U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday pardoned 11 people and commuted the sentences of five others who had been convicted of non-violent drug offenses, the White House said, the latest in a series of such actions. "Many of these individuals received disproportionately longer sentences than they would have under current law, policy, and practice," Biden said in a statement. Last year the White House unveiled a plan to reduce "unnecessary" incarcerations, support rehabilitation for imprisoned pe

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  • ScienceThe Weather Network

    Saharan dust can make or break a monstrous Atlantic hurricane

    Hurricanes are some of nature’s fiercest storms. It takes surprisingly little to make them fizzle out, and Saharan dust is one of the biggest culprits

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  • NewsThe Canadian Press

    Canadians should expect politicians to support right to bail, Virani's office says

    OTTAWA — The public should expect politicians to support their right to bail and to be presumed innocent, the office of Canada's justice minister says, warning that "immediate" and "uninformed reactions" only worsens matters. A jury on Sunday found Umar Zameer not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a Toronto police officer who was run over in an underground parking garage in July 2021. While prosecutors in the high-profile trial alleged Zameer chose to drive dangerously with Const. Je

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  • NewsCanadian Press Videos

    Taylor Swift fans in London seek out pub name-checked on new album

    Taylor Swift fans drinking at The Black Dog in Vauxhall, south London, said they were there thanks to the track "The Black Dog," in which the singer describes monitoring an unnamed ex's visit "into some bar called The Black Dog," through location share on her phone.

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  • NewsCanadian Press Videos

    Doctors transplant a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman

    Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also included a fix for her failing heart. (AP Video: Shelby Lum)

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