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Elks host Riders looking to end struggles both at home and against the West
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Elks are trying to stop history from repeating itself. Edmonton opened the 2022 CFL season with a blowout 59-15 loss to the B.C. Lions, and then fell 26-16 to the Saskatchewan ...
Aug 12, 2022
Judge suspends two articles of Quebec's new language law regarding legal translations
MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has temporarily suspended two articles of the province's new language law, saying they could prevent some English-speaking organizations from accessing justice...
Aug 12, 2022
Canadian wastewater surveillance expanding to new public health threats: Tam
OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says plans are underway to sift through Canadian sewage to test for and measure new health threats like monkeypox and polio. Over the course of the COVID-...
Aug 12, 2022
Canadian bobsled, skeleton athletes repeat calls to St-Onge to improve toxic culture
More than 90 current and retired Canadian bobsled and skeleton athletes are renewing their call for action from federal Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge to help clean up what they say is a toxic climate...
Aug 12, 2022
Hundreds of lightning strikes hit B.C. as severe thunderstorms roll through
Severe thunderstorms have torn through British Columbia's Interior, delivering hundreds of lightning strikes to areas already ranked at a high to extreme risk for wildfires. The BC Wildfire Service we...
Aug 12, 2022
CF Montréal looks to solidify playoff position on the road against Houston
MONTREAL - CF Montral's playoff position is far more solid entering the final third of the Major League Soccer season than it was at this point last year. The club was on the bubble of the playoff rac...
Aug 12, 2022
Quebec's Olivier Rioux, world's tallest teen, chasing hoops dream at Canada Games
Olivier Rioux landed with a size-large exclamation point on Michael Meeks' radar when the Canada Basketball coach opened a photo in his inbox seven years ago. Rioux was attending a kids basketball cam...
Aug 12, 2022
Rory MacDonald ready for anything, anyone as PFL switches opponent at last minute
In the leadup to Saturday's Professional Fighters League semifinal against (Prince) Magomed Umalatov in Cardiff, Wales, Canadian welterweight Rory (Red King) MacDonald pointed to a priority in his tra...
Aug 12, 2022
Police reopen investigation into sexual assault allegation against Olympiques players
QUEBEC - Police in Quebec City have reopened an investigation into a 2014 allegation of sexual assault involving players from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Gatineau Olympiques. The QMJHL sai...
Aug 12, 2022
Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) - Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. An Associated P...
Aug 12, 2022