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Fresh off first loss in nine games, CF Montréal looks to get back on winning track
MONTREAL - It was fun while it lasted, but the streak has come to an end. CF Montral's club-record eight game unbeaten run was ended on Wednesday in a 2-1 loss at Nashville. The club will be looking t...
May 20, 2022
Longtime New Yorker writer, editor Roger Angell dies
NEW YORK (AP) - Roger Angell, a famed baseball writer and reigning man of letters who during an unfaltering 70-plus years helped define The New Yorker's urbane wit and style through his essays, humor ...
May 20, 2022
Reds first baseman Joey Votto still romantic for Rogers Centre
TORONTO - SkyDome will always have a special place in Joey Votto's heart. And yes, the six-time all-star has to correct himself and say Rogers Centre when speaking about Toronto's ballpark. Votto retu...
May 20, 2022
Judge: COVID asylum restrictions must continue on border
EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) - A federal judge in Louisiana is refusing to end pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border. The judge on Friday blocked a plan by Presiden...
May 20, 2022
Rededication ceremony held for Mounted Police Cemetery in Battleford
It was the perfect day for the rededication ceremony for the North-West Mounted Police Cemetery in Battleford this week. Close to 80 people attended the event, both civilians, RCMP members and dignita...
May 20, 2022
Battlefords Hockey represented in WHL Prospects Draft
Some of the best and brightest 2007-born players in the country had a day they won't soon forget on Thursday after being selected in the 2022 WHL Prospects Draft. Among the 240 players drafted, 49 wer...
May 20, 2022
With two 'keepers in protocol and another injured, Whitecaps run into crisis in goal
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps are struggling to find someone fit to tend goal for their Major League Soccer match on Sunday at Charlotte FC. The Whitecaps announced Friday that goalkeepers Isaac...
May 20, 2022
Bill would give CRTC power over user-generated content, but it won't use it: chair
OTTAWA - The chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says a federal bill would give it power to regulate user-generated content, such as homemade videos posted on YouT...
May 20, 2022
Morreale says J. Cole signing not just about creating buzz for CEBL
TORONTO - Mike Morreale says as of late Thursday evening, there were "thousands and thousands and thousands" of people on the waiting list to buy tickets for the Scarborough Shooting Stars inaugural s...
May 20, 2022
Canada considering smallpox vaccine for monkeypox cases, says Dr. Theresa Tam
OTTAWA - The risk posed by monkeypox is low, but nearly everyone in Canada is susceptible because routine vaccination against smallpox ended decades ago, top public health officials said Friday. Monke...
May 20, 2022