Author Archives:
Blue Bombers sign linebacker Kyrie Wilson to one-year extension
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have signed linebacker Kyrie Wilson to a one-year contract extension. Wilson returns for his sixth season in Winnipeg after his 2022 campaign was cut short when he...
Dec 16, 2022
Montreal meeting between prime minister and Quebec premier snowed out
MONTREAL - A snowstorm forced the cancellation of a meeting scheduled today in Montreal between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier Franois Legault. The leaders were supposed to discuss i...
Dec 16, 2022
Expert says government decision to delay MAID expansion not necessary
OTTAWA - The chair of a federal expert panel on medically assisted death is questioning what the government is hoping to accomplish by delaying the expansion of the assisted-dying regime. Dr. Mona Gup...
Dec 16, 2022
Year in review: A look at news events in November and December 2022
A look at news events in November and the first half of December 2022: November 1 - Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. claimed his first American League Gold Glove Award as the leag...
Dec 16, 2022
CF Montréal signs goalkeeper Pantemis to 2023 deal with two option years
MONTREAL - CF Montral has signed goalkeeper James Pantemis to a new contract for the 2023 Major League Soccer season, with option years in 2024 and 2025. The 25-year-old Montreal native has played 36 ...
Dec 16, 2022
Year in review: A look at news events in October 2022
A look at news events in October 2022: 1 - Russia vetoed a United Nations resolution calling its Ukraine annexation referendums illegal. The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 10-1 with China,...
Dec 16, 2022
Year in review: A look at news events in September 2022
A look at news events in September 2022: 1 - Health Canada approved Moderna's new COVID-19 booster vaccine. The bivalent vaccine targets both the original strain of the novel coronavirus and the Omicr...
Dec 16, 2022
Year in review: A look at news events in August 2022
A look at news events in August 2022: 2 - Vin Scully, Hall of Fame broadcaster for the Dodgers of Major League Baseball, died at the age of 94. Scully's dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer ...
Dec 16, 2022
'Driven, motivated' Zellweger looking for more hardware with Canada at world juniors
Olen Zellweger was firing puck after puck into the shooting cage one day following practice. Lost in the off-ice training - picking corners and snapping rubber off iron - time must have got away from ...
Dec 16, 2022
Year in review: A look at news events in July 2022
A look at news events in July 2022: 3 - Historian Irving Abella died at 82. He was the co-author of a seminal book on the Canadian government's refusal to accept Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust....
Dec 16, 2022