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CFL free agency window will open Sunday
TORONTO - The CFL free agency process will kick into high gear Sunday. That's when the league's free-agency window will open and CFL teams will be able to talk freely with any pending free agents or t...
Jan 30, 2024
Ongoing storm system bringing record high January temperatures
Unseasonable warmth brought by an atmospheric river has shattered records - some almost a century old - at more than 30 B.C. locations, with the mercury passing 18 C in the Lower Mainland.Environment ...
Jan 30, 2024
Contamination from old Alberta Rockies coal mines raises cleanup questions
EDMONTON - A former coal mine in the Alberta Rockies is releasing a contaminant toxic to fish at rates more than dozens of times higher than federal and provincial guidelines, while another periodical...
Jan 30, 2024
A timeline of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion's major milestones and setbacks
CALGARY - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is facing delay yet again, as the company responsible for building the project reported Monday it has run into a fresh construction-related challenge in...
Jan 30, 2024
Priestman says she can focus on football now off-field distractions have diminished
Coach Bev Priestman says she has "unfinished business" with the Olympic champion Canadian women's soccer team. And with a newly signed contract to stay on through the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup, ther...
Jan 30, 2024
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. looking forward to setting arbitration record win or lose
TORONTO (AP) - Although he's never gone through the process before, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. doesn't seem too unsettled about the possibility of his 2024 salary being decided by a three-person arbitratio...
Jan 30, 2024
Quebec cold case murder suspect ID'd with help of DNA research tool, trial hears
SAGUENAY, Que. - A forensic biologist has told a trial that a DNA research tool helped police hone in on the suspect who is now charged with the sexual assault and murder of a junior college student n...
Jan 30, 2024
Jays' Guerrero follows father's footsteps as 'MLB The Show' video game cover athlete
Chalk up another father-son milestone for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. The Toronto Blue Jays first baseman is the cover athlete for the "MLB The Show 24" video game, following in the footsteps of his father ...
Jan 30, 2024
Scraps, Stickwork and Star Power: A look back at the first official NHL all-star game
TORONTO - Forget floating in the neutral zone, superfluous showboating, and the shinny-style nonchalance so common in recent NHL all-star games. The inaugural 1947 contest in Toronto - the league's fi...
Jan 30, 2024
CBC head Catherine Tait set to face off with MPs over job cuts, executive bonuses
OTTAWA - The president of CBC and Radio-Canada is set to testify on Parliament Hill today following the public broadcaster's recent announcement that it would cut 10 per cent of its workforce. Catheri...
Jan 30, 2024