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Timbermen focus on transition players at the 2025 WLA draft
NANAIMO - The Nanaimo Timbermen selected seven players to their roster through the WLA draft, including three excellent transition defenders.With their territorial protection pick Nanaimo secured the ...
Feb 01, 2025
Blue Bombers re-sign two-time All-CFL receiver Dalton Schoen to one-year contract
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers re-signed star receiver Dalton Schoen to a one-year contract on Saturday. The six-foot-one, 210-pound Schoen returns to Winnipeg for a fourth season after being li...
Feb 01, 2025
Auger-Aliassime advances to Montpellier final with straight sets win over De Jong
MONTPELLIER - Montreal's Flix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the final of the Open Occitanie tennis tournament with a 6-4, 7-6 (4) win over Jesper de Jong of the Netherlands on Saturday. Auger-Aliassime,...
Feb 01, 2025
Canadian Jasmine Jasudavicius makes history with win on UFC card in Saudi Arabia
RIYADH - Canadian flyweight Jasmine Jasudavicius extended her winning streak to four fights with an impressive unanimous decision over Brazilian Mayra (Sheetara) Bueno Silva on a UFC Fight Night card ...
Feb 01, 2025
Canadian winger Tajon Buchanan joins Spain's Villarreal on loan from Inter Milan
Canadian international winger Tajon Buchanan has joined Spain's Villarreal CF from Italy's Inter Milan on a season-long loan with an option to make the move permanent. The 25-year-old from Brampton, O...
Feb 01, 2025
Driver in his 20s dead after car crash southeast of Quebec City
MONTREAL - A man in his 20s has died after a car crash in the Chaudire-Appalaches region of Quebec Friday night. Quebec provincial police say they received a call around 9 p.m. Friday about the crash ...
Feb 01, 2025
Mexico's president says all 6 people on medical transport jet were killed
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Six people on board a medical transport jet that crashed in Philadelphia were killed. That is according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. The dead included a child who was re...
Feb 01, 2025
Oceanside Generals face first responders in charity hockey game for retired dogs
PARKSVILLE - They are known as man's best friend, and an Alberta-based charity is teaming up with a mid-Island hockey team to ensure pooches who serve can retire comfortably. Ned's Wish raises money s...
Feb 01, 2025
18 Pakistani soldiers killed in fighting with separatist rebels in Balochistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani troops fought insurgents who set up roadblocks in the restive northwestern region of Balochistan, leaving 18 paramilitary security forces and 23 rebels dead in some o...
Feb 01, 2025
18 Pakistani soldiers killed in fighting with separatist rebels in Baluchistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani troops fought insurgents who set up roadblocks in the restive northwestern region, leaving 18 paramilitary security forces and 12 rebels dead in some of the heaviest ...
Feb 01, 2025