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Lions, Stampeders looking for bounce-back efforts in CFL week 2 action
CALGARY - The B.C. Lions and Calgary Stampeders find themselves in similar spots heading into Thursday night's game at McMahon Stadium between the two winless CFL teams. The Lions lost their opening g...
Aug 11, 2021
Winnipeg Jets announce vaccination requirement for fans to attend home games
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Jets will require all fans to be fully vaccinated to attend home games at Canada Life Centre this season.The Jets' parent company, True North Sports and Entertainment, made the...
Aug 11, 2021
'You claim we’re heroes, but clearly we’re zeros': local nurses march to protest proposed UCP rollbacks
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Dozens of nurses, health-care workers and union representatives passionately marched in front of the hospital, joining a province-wide Day of Action pushing back against UCP policie...
Aug 11, 2021
Here are the key players in the military's sexual misconduct scandal
OTTAWA - The Canadian military has been roiled by allegations of misconduct and questions about due process. Here are the key players in the scandal: Gen. Jonathan Vance: Former chief of the defence s...
Aug 11, 2021
Bethel-Thompson leads upstart Toronto Argonauts into Winnipeg against Blue Bombers
Another week, another rough West Division road opponent for McLeod Bethel-Thompson and the Toronto Argonauts. Toronto (1-0) visits the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Friday night. Bethel-Thompson threw for ...
Aug 11, 2021
Vancouver Whitecaps striker Lucas Cavallini to miss several weeks with knee injury
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps say striker Lucas Cavallini will miss the next several weeks with a knee injury. Cavallini, 28, suffered a grade two-plus PCL sprain in the first half of Vancouver'...
Aug 11, 2021
Prairie Rose announces Reagan Weeks as next superintendent
DUNMORE, AB - Prairie Rose Public Schools has stayed in-house to hire its next superintendent.Deputy superintendent Reagan Weeks will take over from Roger Clarke, who announced his retirement in the s...
Aug 11, 2021
Veteran running back Wilder Jr. accumulates 161 net offensive yards in Edmonton debut
It certainly hasn't taken James Wilder Jr. long to scrape the rust off his game. The six-foot-three, 230-pound running back accumulated 161 total offensive yards in the Edmonton Elks season-opening 16...
Aug 11, 2021
Former NFL player Nate Burleson joins 'CBS This Morning'
NEW YORK (AP) - CBS News is bringing a little of the NFL to its morning show, hiring former football player Nate Burleson as one of the three co-hosts of "CBS This Morning." Burleson has been host of ...
Aug 11, 2021
Two killed in serious collision on Highway 1 west of Calgary
MORLEY, Alta. - Police say two people are dead after a collision between a semi-truck and a five-tonne truck on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Calgary.RCMP say the deadly crash took place just befor...
Aug 11, 2021