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‘Ballers’, ‘Room 104’ and ‘Puss in Boots’ top this week’s TV must-sees

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Category: Entertainment
Created: Sunday, July 23, 2017
Toronto Sun
Ballers
Season Premiere
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson returns to his role as retired athlete turned financial manager when the series picks up where it left off. Spencer Strasmore is looking for more high-profile clients to pay off the debt he’s racked up.
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New airport security rules and brewing beer battles: CBC's Marketplace consumer cheat sheet

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Category: Economic
Created: Sunday, July 23, 2017
CBC News
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"Enhanced" security measures went into effect this week for Canadians travelling to the U.S.
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Two dead, one injured in Toronto backyard barbecue shooting

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Category: Canada News
Created: Sunday, July 23, 2017
CTV News
Two men were pronounced dead at the scene of a backyard barbecue in Toronto, while one woman was seriously injured.
Police say shots were fired during an altercation that broke out at the birthday party in the city’s east end early Sunday morning.
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Marvel bewitches Comic-Con with 'Black Panther' and 'Thor: Ragnarok'

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Category: Entertainment
Created: Sunday, July 23, 2017
CTV News
SAN DIEGO -- "Black Panther" stole the show Saturday night at Marvel Studios' Comic-Con presentation, outshining the Ant-Man, Thor and even the ultimate Avengers team-up, "Infinity War."
Fans went wild for the exclusive sneak peek at the upcoming superhero pic, featuring star Chadwick Boseman T'Challa intercepting a sketchy vibranium trade between Andy Serkis' Klaw and Martin Freeman's Everett.
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German justice minister open to possible EU sanctions against Poland

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Category: World News
Created: Sunday, July 23, 2017
CTV News
BERLIN -- Germany's justice minister is welcoming possible European Union sanctions against Poland because of that country's controversial judicial reforms.
Minister Heiko Maas on Sunday told the weekly paper Bild am Sonntag that "the independence of the judiciary is in danger in Poland.
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Book about Nelson Mandela's medical treatment stirs dispute

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Category: World News
Created: Sunday, July 23, 2017
CTV News
JOHANNESBURG -- Some relatives of Nelson Mandela say a new book by a military doctor that documents the South African leader's medical treatments before his 2013 death violates doctor-patient confidentiality.
But the retired doctor, Vejay Ramlakan, said in an interview this weekend on the eNCA news channel the Mandela family had requested that the book be written.
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Protests, threats at British hospital in baby Charlie Gard case

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Category: World News
Created: Sunday, July 23, 2017
CTV News
LONDON -- Protesters who want critically ill British baby Charlie Gard to receive an experimental treatment are planning a rally and prayer vigil and hospital officials say they have received death threats in the heartbreaking case.
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'Last fur trader' reconnects with northerners nearly 70 years after his first trip to the Arctic

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Category: Canada News
Created: Sunday, July 23, 2017
CBC News
Roy Goose feels the memories flood back as he looks through nearly 70-year-old images of the places and people he knew growing up in the Northwest Territories.
The photo shows Ulukhaktok, known back then as Holman.
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Judge to deliver verdict in decades-long B.C. polygamy case

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Category: Canada News
Created: Sunday, July 23, 2017
CTV News
CRANBROOK, B.C. - A verdict is expected Monday in a trial of two former leaders of a British Columbia fundamentalist church who are charged with polygamy.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sheri Ann Donegan has been presiding over the trial of Winston Blackmore and James Oler, who are accused of having multiple wives.
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Eight bodies found in tractor-trailer outside Walmart

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Category: World News
Created: Sunday, July 23, 2017
CTV News
SAN ANTONIO -- Eight people were found dead in a tractor-trailer loaded with at least 30 others outside a Walmart store in Texas' stifling summer heat in what police are calling a horrific human trafficking case.
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Wind stirs up fresh fear of wildfires spreading in B.C.

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Category: Canada News
Created: Sunday, July 23, 2017
CTV News
KAMLOOPS, B.C. -- Officials are concerned strong winds today will spread wildfires that crews in British Columbia are struggling to contain.
Environment Canada says wind gusts of about 50 kilometres per hour can be expected across the southern parts of the province including Williams Lake, Castlegar and Princeton.
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Taliban overrun two Afghan districts in as many days

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Category: World News
Created: Sunday, July 23, 2017
CTV News
KABUL -- Taliban fighters overran a second district headquarters in as many days on Sunday, this one in western Ghor province, the provincial police chief said.
At least eight police were killed in separate battles against Taliban militants, who have stepped up their attacks in the north and west of the country laying siege to district headquarters, said Mohammad Mustafa Moseni.
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