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Alouettes sign defensive back Najee Murray for 2025 CFL season
MONTREAL - The Montreal Alouettes have signed American defensive back Najee Murray for the 2025 season, the CFL team announced Tuesday. Murray recorded 44 defensive tackles in 11 games last season and...
Dec 03, 2024

Price of wheat remains low for farmers
The price of wheat has dipped since it hit a fall peak in late October of just under $620 per tonne, and even more so since it's high in June at just under $760 a tonne.---Cypress County producer, Nic...
Dec 03, 2024

Anti-Israel war protesters arrested following sit-in at parliamentary building
OTTAWA - Fourteen people were arrested on Parliament Hill this morning after staging a sit-in demanding Canada immediately stop sending any weapons to Israel. The protesters from Jews Say No to Genoci...
Dec 03, 2024

Quebec to investigate two colleges over safety complaints around Middle East conflict
MONTREAL - The Quebec government is launching an investigation of two English-language junior colleges in Montreal over complaints about student safety in the context of the conflict in the Middle Eas...
Dec 03, 2024

Liberal minister says Trump was joking when he suggested Canada become 51st state
OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says president-elect Donald Trump was joking when he suggested Canada become the 51st U.S. state during a dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in F...
Dec 03, 2024

Patrik Laine to return from knee injury, make Canadiens debut against Islanders
MONTREAL - Patrik Laine's long-awaited Montreal Canadiens debut - and first game in nearly a year - has arrived. The Finnish winger is back from a knee injury as the Canadiens host the New York Island...
Dec 03, 2024

Canada Post removes deadline for Santa letter program amid strike
Canada Post says it has removed the deadline for its Santa Claus letter program amid an ongoing national workers' strike that has halted mail delivery leading up to the holiday season. Some 55,000 wor...
Dec 03, 2024

Double Olympic champion cyclist Evenepoel in hospital after training crash
ANDERLECHT, Belgium (AP) - Double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel was taken to hospital following a crash during training in Belgium on Tuesday. Belgian media reported Evenepoel was unable to avoid t...
Dec 03, 2024

Ski great Marcel Hirscher's comeback season ended by serious knee injury
SALZBURG, Austria (AP) - Ski great Marcel Hirscher's comeback season after five years away from the sport is over when it had barely begun. The Austrian star tore the ACL in his left knee "during a ha...
Dec 03, 2024

Alpine Canada eyes Panorama or Whistler, B.C., for future men's World Cup downhills
Whistler and Panorama, B.C., are candidates to host men's World Cup downhill ski races in the future. Alpine Canada president and chief executive officer Therese Brisson intends to find a replacement ...
Dec 03, 2024