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Wolfville, N.S. will play host to regular-season CFL game in July
HALIFAX - The Canadian Football League announced Tuesday that Wolfville, N.S. will host a regular-season game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Toronto Argonauts on July 16. "On behalf of the S...
Mar 29, 2022
With Canada in World Cup, fan allegiances among multicultural fanbase could be split
While some soccer fans in Canada are feeling elation over the country's World Cup qualification, others are less certain where their allegiances will lie when the showcase tournament kicks off this ye...
Mar 29, 2022
Europeans expel dozens of Russian envoys to combat espionage
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - In what appeared to be a coordinated action to tackle Russian espionage, at least four European allies expelled dozens of Russian diplomats on Tuesday. The expulsions com...
Mar 29, 2022
Yo-Yo Ma plays Mozart with Afghan refugees in Portugal
LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Celebrated U.S. cellist Yo-Yo Ma joined refugees from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in the Portuguese capital Lisbon on Tuesday for a performance of Mozart's Eine...
Mar 29, 2022
Sport Minister: Mechanism for reporting harassment, abuse in place by late spring
Pascale St-Onge says plans are in place for an independent mechanism for the reporting of maltreatment in sport, and it will be operational by late spring. Canada's Sport Minister released a statement...
Mar 29, 2022
Neil Skjodt trial rescheduled for August/September 2022
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The rescheduled trial dates for a Lethbridge man charged in a fatal collision will take place sooner than expected.The trial for Neil Martin Skjodt, 54, was originally supposed to sta...
Mar 29, 2022
Connecting fleeing Ukrainians with Canadian community support could prove difficult
OTTAWA - The Ukrainian Canadian Congress says it's concerned about the plan to support those fleeing to Canada from Ukraine because there is no plan to effectively track them once they arrive. The fed...
Mar 29, 2022
Fashion mogul Peter Nygard appears virtually before judge in Montreal on sex charges
MONTREAL - Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard appeared virtually before a Quebec court judge from a Toronto jail today to be charged with sexual assault and forcible confinement. Nygard, in an orange...
Mar 29, 2022
Canadian men's soccer team will be armed when it goes to Qatar for the World Cup
TORONTO - The Canadian men's soccer team is going to the World Cup and it will be armed this November in Qatar. John Herdman's team travels with a sword these days. "The sword's something that symboli...
Mar 29, 2022
Thousands to commemorate Warne, cricket's 'box office' star
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Shane Warne mixed with Mick Jagger and Elton John, bowled to Ed Sheeran in the practice nets at the spiritual home of cricket, and for a while was engaged to be married to L...
Mar 29, 2022