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CF Montreal coach Nancy is looking ahead to improvement next season
MONTREAL - For most teams, finishing the season with the league's third-best record, playing in the Eastern Conference semifinals, and breaking both club and Major League Soccer records along the way ...
Oct 25, 2022

B.C. Lions QB Nathan Rourke set to start against Winnipeg Blue Bombers
SURREY, B.C. - Head coach Rick Campbell says he expects star quarterback Nathan Rourke to start for the B.C. Lions this week. Rourke was a dominant force early in the season, throwing for 3,281 yards ...
Oct 25, 2022

Scrum half Ross Braude returns for third season with the Toronto Arrows
TORONTO - The Toronto Arrows have re-signed Canadian international scrum half Ross Braude for the 2023 Major League Rugby season. The South African-born Braude, who qualifies to represent Canada throu...
Oct 25, 2022

Judge in Quebec racial profiling case orders end to random traffic stops
MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has issued a major racial profiling ruling today, invalidating laws that allow police to randomly pull over drivers for traffic stops. Justice Michel Yergeau r...
Oct 25, 2022

Alfredsson says Hockey Hall of Fame induction a "validation" of career with Senators
OTTAWA - When Daniel Alfredsson arrived in Ottawa in the fall of 1995, that 22-year-old would have never believed he'd one day find himself in the Hockey Hall of Fame. At that time the young Swede was...
Oct 25, 2022

Major League Rugby loses franchises in Austin and L.A. for 2023 season
Major League Rugby, home to the Toronto Arrows, will play the 2023 season without the Austin Gilgronis and the Los Angeles Giltinis. The league cited the uncertainties surrounding the Austin and Los A...
Oct 25, 2022

Vancouver council approves UN declaration on Indigenous rights strategy
Vancouver council has passed an Indigenous rights strategy that it says will make the city a national and world leader in implementing a plan towards reconciliation. The strategy is based on the Unite...
Oct 25, 2022

Alberta premier Danielle Smith calls for new arena in Calgary
CALGARY - Alberta's premier has stated her support for a new arena in Calgary to house the NHL's Flames and wants the province to get involved. Danielle Smith said in a statement Tuesday that the 39-y...
Oct 25, 2022

Mountie who recorded Lucki meeting first told investigators tape lost on stolen phone
HALIFAX - An affidavit by an RCMP security investigator details how the force obtained recordings of a tense meeting at the centre of allegations of political interference into the Mounties' investiga...
Oct 25, 2022

Mendicino says email from Lucki doesn't mean Emergencies Act was unnecessary
OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is brushing off concerns about an email sent to his office from the RCMP commissioner just hours before the government invoked the Emergencies Act last ...
Oct 25, 2022