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Leafs still in Battle of Ontario driver's seat, but past playoff failures loom large
TORONTO - Auston Matthews stood in a sombre, all-too-familiar-feeling locker room. The Maple Leafs captain said all the right things to a wall of cameras flanked by reporters moments after his team wa...
Apr 30, 2025
Hockey players' sexual assault trial shown security, phone videos
LONDON - A young woman prosecutors allege was sexually assaulted by five hockey players in June 2018 said it was "all consensual" in a cellphone video recorded near the end of the encounter. The video...
Apr 30, 2025
Hockey players' sexual assault trial shown security, phone videos
LONDON - The sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team watched security footage today from a bar and the hotel where the players were staying the night of the al...
Apr 30, 2025
Quebec Inuit representative wants investigation over voting problems in Nunavik
MONTREAL - An organization representing Quebec Inuit wants Elections Canada to investigate reports that some people in Nunavik were unable to vote in Monday's federal election. Makivvik says polling h...
Apr 30, 2025
Canadian Dante Leon goes after submission grappling world title in Bangkok
Seventeen years after being introduced to Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Canadian Dante Leon goes after a world title Friday. The 29-year-old from Harrow, Ont., who now calls Toledo, Ohio, home, faces American ...
Apr 30, 2025
MacKinnon in the mix for second straight Lindsay Award along with Makar, Kucherov
TORONTO - Colorado Avalanche centre Nathan MacKinnon is in the mix for a second straight Ted Lindsay award. The NHL Players' Association on Wednesday announced the finalists for the award given annual...
Apr 30, 2025
Rachael Thomas 'honoured', projected to serve fourth term as Lethbridge MP
Lethbridge's federal Conservative candidate is set to enter her fourth term in office.Rachael Thomas won an estimated 60.8 per cent of the votes in Monday's federal election."I'm really excited for th...
Apr 30, 2025
Event planners across Canada rethinking security practices following Vancouver attack
TORONTO - Event organizers across Canada say they're combing over their security practices in the wake of Saturday night's deadly attack on a Vancouver street festival, hoping to fill any gaps to prot...
Apr 30, 2025
Collective trauma after festival attack could ripple for months, experts say
VANCOUVER - Communal grief following the ramming attack at a Filipino festival in Vancouver that killed 11 people last weekend will likely persist for months, mental health experts in British Columbia...
Apr 30, 2025
Teen hurt by falling tree, tens of thousands without power after violent Quebec storm
MONTREAL - A 15-year-old Montrealer was badly hurt by a falling tree in one of a series of violent storms across the province on Tuesday evening that left more than 144,000 Hydro-Qubec clients without...
Apr 30, 2025