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HALIFAX — Mounties in Nova Scotia are investigating a violent home invasion. RCMP say officers were dispatched to a rural community east of Halifax early Saturday after three men abruptly entered the residence and proceeded to ransack the property.

VANCOUVER — Environment Canada has issued heat warnings along British Columbia's south coast. It says a strong ridge of high pressure will bring well above seasonal daytime temperatures to the region.

TANTALLON, N.S. — It doesn't make sense to Robie Holland that — as 250 millimetres of rain poured down in rural Nova Scotia — there was nothing to stop his father from travelling down a rapidly flooding road.

The annual Perseid meteor shower is reaching its peak this weekend, which means there could be quite a light show for those who know where and when to look.

HAMBURG — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had game highs of 26 points and six steals to lead Canada past New Zealand 107-76 on Saturday and advance into the DBB SuperCup Final.

TORONTO — Right-handed pitcher Hagen Danner has been placed on the 15-day injured list by the Toronto Blue Jays. He left Friday's game with a left oblique strain.

MONTREAL — The Parti Québécois says Jacques-Yvan Morin, who held several prominent cabinet roles and served for a time as the head of the official opposition in the province, has died. He was 92.

Toronto’s popular Greektown street festival has returned for the first time in four years. Taste of the Danforth is running from Aug. 11 to Aug. 13.

EDMONTON — Kristin Voss-Dahl was going to an Edmonton Oilers hockey game with her friends downtown when she came across a person lying unresponsive in a parking lot.

TORONTO — At 4:11 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, the system supervisor in the control room overseeing Ontario's electrical grid saw four alarms pop up on his computer screen. Then came 30,000 more.