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CFL says over 750,000 fans watched its national combine via Facebook livestreams
TORONTO - More than 750,000 fans tuned in to watch the CFL's first combine with international players last weekend - and 62 per cent of those views came from outside Canada and the...
Mar 27, 2019

Senate committee to study extent of forced sterilization across Canada
OTTAWA - The Senate's human rights committee is launching a study about the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women. Senators on the committee say they want to hold meetings and hear from ...
Mar 27, 2019

Prince Edward Island's Green leader keen to make electoral history
CHARLOTTETOWN - Prince Edward Island's Green leader is contemplating making history - as the party's first Canadian premier. Islanders will go to the polls April 23 in a provincial elec...
Mar 27, 2019

Ex-Brazilian President Temer released from jail after 5 days
RIO DE JANEIRO - Former Brazilian President Michel Temer was released from jail on Monday, less than a week after he was arrested in the sprawling Car Wash corruption probe that has ensnared many of t...
Mar 27, 2019

Montreal Impact sign Finnish defender Jukka Raitala to one-year extension
MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact have signed Finnish defender Jukka Raitala to a one-year extension, keeping him under contract with the club through the 2020 season. Raitala, 30, is currently in his se...
Mar 27, 2019

Winnipeg Blue Bombers looking into possibly staging NFL exhibition contest
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are looking into possibly hosting an NFL exhibition game between the Oakland Raiders and Green Bay Packers this summer. "The Winnipeg Football Club is alw...
Mar 27, 2019

Former NHL defenceman Serge Savard not in running to own Alouettes
Scratch Serge Savard's name from the list of potential new owners of the Montreal Alouettes. The eight-time Stanley Cup-winning defenceman with the Montreal Canadiens said Wednesday he's not invo...
Mar 27, 2019

Downtown redesign shouldn't impede turning vehicles: Study
Drivers worried about how the North Battleford planned downtown redesign will impact vehicles turning at 100 Street were reassured this shouldn't be a problem according to a study presented at city co...
Mar 27, 2019 North Battleford Mayor Ryan Bater at council's recent meeting. Council discussed the downtown redesign work impact on intersections. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Crash threatens Vancouver shipyard's schedule for new coast guard ships
OTTAWA - The Canadian Coast Guard's hope that its first new fisheries science vessel will finally be delivered this summer could be dashed after the ship crashed on its first test run last week. Seasp...
Mar 27, 2019

Sources say Trudeau rejected Wilson-Raybould's conservative pick for high court
OTTAWA - Jody Wilson-Raybould recommended in 2017 that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nominate a conservative Manitoba judge to be chief justice of the Supreme Court, even though he wasn't a sitti...
Mar 27, 2019