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TORONTO — Yariel Rodriguez had been waiting his entire life for this moment: pitching in Major League Baseball.

Vancouver police say they're investigating a suspected overnight homicide in the city's south end. Police say they were called to a report of gun shots around 11 p.m. Friday at the intersection of East 55th Avenue and Main Street.

MONTREAL — Members of a union representing more than 80,000 health care workers in Quebec have decisively rejected a tentative collective agreement with the province that was endorsed by the labour group's leadership.

ZEBALLOS, СÀ¶ÊÓƵ — A second attempt to rescue an orphaned killer whale calf stranded in a remote British Columbia lagoon will not take place on Saturday after an initial effort to capture the young orca failed a day earlier.

SAINT-JÉRÔME, Que. — Quebec officials have reported flooding on a handful rivers north of Montreal and in Quebec City after heavy downpours fell on parts of the province this week. In St-Jérôme, Que.

FREDERICTON — A New Brunswick Progressive Conservative party volunteer who spearheaded an unsuccessful effort to trigger a leadership review of Premier Blaine Higgs has resigned from his post.

The Canadian Premier League kicks off its sixth season this weekend, still a work in progress but with a sense of stability in most quarters.

REGINA — Saskatoon mother Tamara Hinz says her two kids have watched the same puppet show that thousands of other Saskatchewan children have seen over the last 17 years.

WINNIPEG — Standing on a field of green turf at a sporting facility in Winnipeg's south end, Solape Obasa keeps her eye on the football, waiting for the moment she can catch it and run.

OTTAWA — Canada's largest labour organization is urging unions to hold politicians to account when they profess to champion the country's working class.