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Forge FC's Bobby Smyrniotis up for CPL coach of the year for a fifth straight season
Forge FC's Bobby Smyrniotis is up for coach of the year in the Canadian Premier League for a fifth straight year. Smyrniotis is against Patrice Gheisar of HFX Wanderers FC and Cavalry FC's Tommy Wheel...
Oct 16, 2023
Toronto Maple Leafs mixing up goal songs after finally shelving Hall & Oates
TORONTO - The Maple Leafs didn't change their goal song for five full seasons. They've had two in two games to start the 2023-24 campaign - and there are more to come. Toronto used a portion of Steve ...
Oct 16, 2023
Fatal crash claims lives of two people from Leader, Saskatchewan
CYPRESS COUNTY, AB. - Two people died in a crash on Highway 41 north at approximately 7:25 pm Sunday October 15. Redcliff RCMP say an SUV swerved to avoid a moose, but then hit a cattle hauler head on...
Oct 16, 2023
Leafs cente Matthews, Canucks centre Pettersson headline NHL's three stars
NEW YORK - Toronto centre Auston Matthews has been named the NHL's first star of its opening week of the 2023-24 season after he posted hat tricks in the Maple Leafs' first two games. Vancouver Canuck...
Oct 16, 2023
Lawyers object to use of word "occupation" during Freedom Convoy testimony
OTTAWA - Lawyers for two ``Freedom Convoy'' organizers objected when an Ottawa woman testified in court, calling the protest an ``occupation.'' The lawyers for Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, accused of...
Oct 16, 2023
Canada men's rugby coach Kingsley Jones gets two-year contract extension
Rugby Canada has signed men's coach Kingsley Jones to a two-year contract extension that will see him lead the team through 2025. The former Wales captain has been in charge of the Canadian men since ...
Oct 16, 2023
Canada's new antisemitism envoy Deborah Lyons eyes campus and online anti-Jew speech
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has appointed former ambassador Deborah Lyons as Canada's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism. Lyons is Canada's former ambass...
Oct 16, 2023
Tribunal asking Senators to disclosing their withheld emails in discrimination case
OTTAWA - A federal tribunal is asking senators to divulge emails that it believes are relevant to determining whether an employee was fired on the basis of racial discrimination. A tribunal is hearing...
Oct 16, 2023
CP NewsAlert: B.C. to bring in new rules on short-term rentals to create more housing
VICTORIA - The B.C. government has introduced legislation that would rein in what it says is a rapidly expanding short-term rental market. Premier David Eby says the number of short-term rentals has b...
Oct 16, 2023
In Newfoundland, champion runners look up to 85-year-old woman still ‘killing it’
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - An 85-year-old woman ran a notoriously agonizing 20-kilometre road race in St. John's on Sunday, completing her 10th competitive run of the course and beating 121 much younger peopl...
Oct 16, 2023