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After long delay due to global pandemic, CFL finally set to resume playing football
Commissioner Randy Ambrosie and the CFL are finally back in the football business. The CFL kicks off the '21 season Thursday night, its first action since the 2019 Grey Cup game. The league cancelled ...
Aug 04, 2021
Nunavut community of Qikiqtarjuaq to get long-awaited deepwater port
IQALUIT, Nunavut - The Baffin Island community of Qikiqtarjuaq will see a deepwater port built in its community after decades of lobbying the federal government. Infrastructure minister Catherine McKe...
Aug 04, 2021
Manitoba minister says residential schools meant to eliminate Indigenous people
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba cabinet minister who once defended some of the intentions behind residential schools now says they were part of a genocide. Alan Lagimodiere says former prime minister John A. Ma...
Aug 04, 2021
Conservatives raise twice as much as Liberals in first half of year as election looms
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives raised roughly twice as much money as the Liberals in the first half of 2021, lending them a cash advantage ahead of a likely fall election. Elections Canada filings...
Aug 04, 2021
Bo Levi Mitchell leads a Calgary Stampeders lineup with a lot of new faces
The Calgary Stampeders enter the CFL season with a healthy Bo Levi Mitchell, after taking time off during training camp to rest a sore groin, and a host of fresh faces. The first test of that new tale...
Aug 04, 2021
Liberals commit $96 million to Black community organizations: Hussen
OTTAWA - Social Development Minister Ahmed Hussen says the federal government is allocating up to $96 million in funding for Black community organizations. Speaking to reporters in Toronto today, Huss...
Aug 04, 2021
Indigenous minister worries lifting COVID-19 restrictions could bring fourth wave
WINNIPEG - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says he is concerned provinces that are lifting COVID-19 restrictions could lead to a Delta-driven fourth wave among Indigenous people. Miller says ...
Aug 04, 2021
CFL brings in new COVID-19 protocols for cancelled games
The CFL is cracking down when it comes to low vaccination rates in the league.In a release on Tuesday, the league announced that if a COVID-19 outbreak lead to a cancelled game, the team that had the ...
Aug 04, 2021
Early, intense wildfire season makes Canada-U.S. resource-sharing impossible: Ottawa
WASHINGTON - The federal government says neither Canada nor the United States can lend each other any extra firefighters as they deal with one of the most severe wildfire seasons in recent memory. Las...
Aug 04, 2021
No COVID restrictions for Rider shuttles
As the Saskatchewan Roughriders take to the field for the first time in nearly two years and Mosaic Stadium will be able to be full for the first time in 16 months, those won't be the only things near...
Aug 04, 2021