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Dave Dickenson dives into CFL free agency in first year as Stampeders' GM
CALGARY - Dave Dickenson's 20th year in the Calgary Stampeders' organization is his first pushing contracts across the table for players to sign. When John Hufnagel handed the general manager's reins ...
Feb 07, 2023
How Truth and Reconciliation Day is marked across Canada
VICTORIA - British Columbia has introduced legislation to make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday. If the legislation passes, B.C. would become the sixth province or ter...
Feb 07, 2023
Alberta Premier Smith meets Prime Minister Trudeau; awkward handshake ensues
OTTAWA - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has met face to face with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a photo opportunity punctuated by short statements and a very awkward handshake.Smith and Trudeau met...
Feb 07, 2023
What Trudeau has offered to the premiers to fund health care
OTTAWA - Premiers got their fist look at Ottawa's offer to increase long-term health funding Tuesday at a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but the federal proposal falls short of what they ...
Feb 07, 2023
Saskatchewan Roughriders feature new faces on club's coaching staff
REGINA - Head coach Craig Dickenson will have five new faces on his Saskatchewan Roughriders staff in 2023. The Riders unveiled Dickenson's staff Tuesday and making their first appearance with Saskatc...
Feb 07, 2023
Canadian military plane heads home after two surveillance flights over Haiti
OTTAWA - A Canadian Armed Forces surveillance plane is returning home after two intelligence-collecting flights over Haiti. The federal Liberal government announced on Saturday that the CP-140 Aurora ...
Feb 07, 2023
Trudeau lays out $196-billion, 10-year health-care increase to premiers
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will increase federal health-care transfers to the provinces by $196 billion over the next 10 years, though only about one-quarter of that is...
Feb 07, 2023
Andreescu, Fernandez, Marino bounced in Abu Dhabi opening round
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Canadians were sent packing early at the Abu Dhabi Women's Tennis Open, with Bianca Andreescu, Leylah Fernandez and Rebecca Marino all losing their first-round matche...
Feb 07, 2023
Canadian Championship to kick off April 19 with games in Hamilton and Montreal
The 2023 Canadian Championship will kick off April 18 in Hamilton and Montreal with Forge FC hosting FC Laval and CF Montreal entertaining Vaughan SC in first-round matches. While the tournament draw ...
Feb 07, 2023
B.C's pink sea urchins are on the move to shallower waters thanks to climate change
VANCOUVER - Pink sea urchins off the coast of Vancouver Island are expanding into shallower waters, in what researchers say is an indication of how rapidly climate change is affecting ocean life. Rese...
Feb 07, 2023