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Injury bug forces Toronto Arrows to sign eighth scrum half of challenging season
TORONTO - Add Toronto Arrows scrum halves to baby formula, semiconductor chips, aluminum and other things in short supply these days. On Thursday, the Major League Rugby team signed its eighth scrum h...
May 13, 2022
Dutch Princess Margriet honours Canadian general who liberated her nation in WWII
OTTAWA - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands paid tribute to the Canadian who negotiated the surrender of the Nazis in her nation in 1945. The princess was born in Ottawa, her family having escaped t...
May 13, 2022
Canada gives up two 5-on-3 goals in third, hangs on for 5-3 win over Germany
HELSINKI - Pierre-Luc Dubois scored twice and Canada overcame an undisciplined third period in a 5-3 win over Germany on Friday at the world hockey championship. Cole Sillinger, Kent Johnson and Noah ...
May 13, 2022
Inexperienced Flames focus on 'process' with goal to finish off playoff opponents
DALLAS - Closing out an NHL playoff series to advance to the next one has a way of accelerating a player's maturation. The Calgary Flames may have been the higher seed heading into their conference qu...
May 13, 2022
CRTC to get new chair as role of broadcast regulator expands
OTTAWA - The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says its chair Ian Scott and broadcasting vice-chair are to be replaced within months and Canadian Heritage is now accepting ap...
May 13, 2022
Revamped Toronto FC learning as it goes under veteran head coach Bob Bradley
TORONTO - Mexican centre back Carlos Salcedo returns to bolster an uncertain Toronto FC defence as Orlando City visits BMO Field on Saturday. Salcedo, one of TFC's designated players, is deemed good t...
May 13, 2022
Inukjuak men's association teaching the next generation of Inuit hunters
INUKJUAK, Que. - Elder Simeonie Ohaituk sits on a caribou skin on the floor of the Unaaq Men's Association in Inukjuak, Que., pulling and cutting a stretchy, cylindrical piece of sealskin. He makes sm...
May 13, 2022
There it is Vancouver: Boudreau will be back to coach Canucks
VANCOUVER - Bruce Boudreau will return as head coach of the Vancouver Canucks after helping to turn the struggling NHL club around as a midseason replacement. The Canucks confirmed in a release Friday...
May 13, 2022
Moose summer diet study underway
PRINCE GEORGE - There are reports of moose dying of apparent starvation in some areas of north-central B.C. So, with support from the Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program, the Macleod Lake Mackenzie...
May 13, 2022
Quebec premier won't participate in English-language debate ahead of provincial vote
MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault is refusing to participate in an English-language leaders debate ahead of the province's October election. Legault spokesman Ewan Sauves says the premier will...
May 13, 2022