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UEFA could ban Super League players from Euro 2020, WCup
MONTREUX, Switzerland - Players at the 12 clubs setting up their own Super League could be banned from this year's European Championship and next year's World Cup, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin sa...
Apr 19, 2021

Applications open for Pattison Media 2021 Prairie Equity Scholarship
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Applications are now being accepted for Pattison Media's 2021 Prairie Equity Scholarship competition.The scholarship is aimed at broadcast and digital media students in the Prairie ...
Apr 19, 2021

Canadian bowler Francois Lavoie wins PBA Super Slam and US$100,000
ANNANDALE, Va. - Canadian bowler Franois Lavoie has won the Guaranteed Rate PBA Super Slam. The 28-year-old from Quebec City, who now makes his home in Wichita, Kan., defeated PBA Players Championship...
Apr 19, 2021

Quebec and Ontario impose travel restrictions to slow surging COVID-19 variants
Ontario and Quebec have imposed new interprovincial travel restrictions in an effort to slow the surging COVID-19 variants that are putting increasing strain on Ontario's hospital system. Starting tod...
Apr 19, 2021

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Monday, April 19, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 10:50 a.m. Ontario is reporting 4,447 new cases of COVID-19 today and 19 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Health...
Apr 19, 2021

'Downton Abbey' cast returns for sequel opening in December
NEW YORK - The original principal cast of "Downton Abbey" are returning for a second film that will arrive in theatres December 22 this year, Focus Features announced Monday. "Downton Abbey" creator J...
Apr 19, 2021

Police: Albanian man with knife wounds 5 at mosque in Tirana
TIRANA, Albania - An Albanian man with a knife attacked five people Monday at a mosque in the capital of Tirana, according to police. A police statement said Rudolf Nikolli, 34, entered the Dine Hoxha...
Apr 19, 2021

Alberta's Boser set to face off against the Sledgehammer on June UFC card
Alberta heavyweight Tanner (The Bulldozer) Boser will face Sweden's Ilir (The Sledgehammer) Latifi on a June 5 UFC Fight Night card. The 29-year-old from Bonnyville, who now calls Edmonton home, is co...
Apr 19, 2021

Alberta lowers minimum age for AstraZeneca vaccine to 40 from 55, hours after Ontario
Premier Jason Kenney says the province will start offering the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Albertans born in 1981 and earlier starting on Tuesday.He tweeted the change on Sunday night, hour...
Apr 19, 2021

Foxconn, Wisconsin reach new deal on scaled back facility
MADISON, Wis. - Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, has reached a new deal with reduced tax breaks for its scaled back manufacturing facility in southeast Wisconsin...
Apr 19, 2021