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Rattlers soccer teams post back-to-back shutouts over Lions
CALGARY, AB - While her athletic prowess may be more well known on the volleyball court, Grace Porter showed she knows her way around a soccer pitch on Friday.Porter netted a hat-trick for the Medicin...
Sep 14, 2019 Photo courtesy of Medicine Hat College Rattlers
Works of art or monuments to ego? Rock-stacking stirs debate
DULUTH, Minn. - To some along the north shoreline of Lake Superior in Minnesota, building stacks of rocks, or cairns, is akin to making sand castles and can even be meditative. To others, these manmad...
Sep 14, 2019
California Highway Patrol captures flightless fugitive emu
FRESNO, Calif. - California authorities have captured an emu after the flightless fugitive led officers down a highway. The Fresno Bee reported Friday that the bird was apprehended following a brief p...
Sep 14, 2019
Vikings victorious in Taber, Mohawks fall to Knights in exhibition tilt
TABER, AB - It may have just been an exhibition game, but the Crescent Heights Vikings are out of the gates with two wins in two weeks to start the local high school football season.On Friday night, t...
Sep 14, 2019 Photo courtesy of Crescent Heights High School Vikings Football
Outfielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. taken off injured list by Toronto Blue Jays
TORONTO - Outfielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr., was reinstated from the 10-day injured list by the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon. The move made him available to play in the matinee between Toronto...
Sep 14, 2019
Bandits take down Dragons 3-1 in season opener
DRUMHELLER, AB - Team captain Jake Lee (Owen Sound, ON) scored the team's first goal of the 2019-20 season, and goalie Pierce Charleson (Aurora, ON) made 23 saves on 24 shots, as the Brooks Bandits (1...
Sep 14, 2019
Chyzowski nets a pair for Tigers in pre-season victory over Red Deer
RED DEER, AB - Fresh off a stint with Winnipeg Jets rookies, Ryan Chyzowski made quite the impact in his first exhibition game back with the Medicine Hat Tigers on Friday.Chyzowski scored twice and ad...
Sep 14, 2019
Quebecer behind assisted dying ruling wants to see it become election issue
MONTREAL - Armed with a court judgment that potentially expands access to medical aid in dying across the country, one of the Quebecers who led the legal fight described it Thursday as a win for ...
Sep 14, 2019
Women's Hall of Fame to induct Justice Sotomayor, Jane Fonda
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, actress Jane Fonda and attorney Gloria Allred are among the latest inductees at the National Women's Hall of Fame. The Class of 2019 being inducted Saturday...
Sep 14, 2019
Capitals' Evgeny Kuznetsov suspended 3 games by NHL
Washington Capitals forward Evgeny Kuznetsov has been suspended without pay for three regular-season games by the NHL for inappropriate conduct, less than a month after he was banned from playing for ...
Sep 14, 2019