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TORONTO — These September back-to-back games are hard enough to win even without having to overcome minor and major mistakes, not to mention chasing the oxygen of Roger Maris’ AL record 61-run home run without proportion Yet there the Toronto Blue Jays were on Wednesday night, one win plus a loss to the Baltimore Orioles …

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TORONTO – Matt Murray had never seen anything like it. Sheldon Keefe may never try in the regular season. And Alexander Kerfoot, who prides himself on sliding all over the lineup chart, found himself in a position he had never played before. Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. So, with the Toronto Maple …

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The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has proposed a new round of proposed sanctions on Russia designed “to make the Kremlin pay” for the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. The proposed eighth package of “biting” sanctions includes a cap on the price of Russian oil and more curbs on high-tech …

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Health officials in British Columbia are bracing for a “winter surge” of COVID-19 and flu in November and December, while insisting no public health measures will be needed. The province’s flu vaccination campaign will begin, for the vast majority of British Columbians, around October 11 after the Thanksgiving long weekend. This campaign merges with the …

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Skywatch 16: Planetary Defense DART WNEP NASA successfully crashed DART into asteroid Dimorphos The Weather Network Watch NASA spacecraft fly by asteroid CityNews Quebec woman among those who deflected an asteroid CTV News Montreal Deflecting asteroids is just one thing on humanity’s list of worries Financial Times See full coverage on Google News

CNN – The US launched an F-15 jet on Wednesday to shoot down an Iranian drone that appeared to be heading towards US forces in Erbil, Iraq, a US official told CNN. US forces shot down the plane on Wednesday after tracking dozens of Iranian short-range ballistic missiles aimed at Kurdish positions in northern Iraq, …

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Wastewater testing in NWT communities will now detect flu outbreaks, while the territory is also starting to test anonymous blood samples for Covid-19 antibodies. The NWT is already testing wastewater in seven communities for traces of Covid-19. The same tests will now also identify influenza and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), another common respiratory virus. Wastewater …

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NEW YORK – Katie Couric said Wednesday that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and has undergone surgery and radiation therapy this summer to treat the tumor. Couric, who memorably got tested for colon cancer on the “Today” show in 2000, announced her diagnosis in an essay on her website, saying she hoped it …

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Hurricane Ian quickly intensified off the southwest coast of Florida on Wednesday morning, gaining maximum winds of 150 miles per hour, just shy of the most dangerous Category 5 status. Damaging winds and rain battered the state’s densely populated Gulf Coast, with regions from Naples to Sarasota at “the highest risk” of a devastating storm …

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Maritime Electric is close to restoring power to a third of its customers following Tropical Storm Fiona’s outage in PEI over the weekend, but is no closer to providing an estimate of when the job Fiona hit PEI early Saturday morning, leaving widespread destruction and power outages. As of Wednesday morning, about 57,000 Maritime Electric …

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