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Star receiver Banks, the CFL's MOP in 2019, leaves Ticats after eight seasons
HAMILTON - Star receiver Brandon Banks is leaving the Hamilton Tiger-Cats after eight seasons with the CFL club. Banks, who said in an outgoing message that he "will always bleed black and gold," play...
Jan 27, 2022
BB gun toting gang member receives 12-month jail sentence
A man responsible for two assaults, including one where he shot the victim in the face, has received a 12-month jail sentence.Xavier Smith, 22, appeared by video Thursday at Prince Albert Provincial C...
Jan 27, 2022
Crowd gathers north of Toronto to cheer on trucker convoy heading to Ottawa
TORONTO - A large crowd gathered outside a mall north of Toronto on Thursday as a group of local truckers prepared to join a convoy to Ottawa in protest of the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine ma...
Jan 27, 2022
Bodies of family from India trying to cross into U.S. by foot identified
Officials in Ottawa say they have confirmed the identities of four Indian nationals whose bodies were found frozen in Manitoba near the Canada-U. S. border last week. The High Commission of India has ...
Jan 27, 2022
Four deaths from same family in Richmond, B.C., was an isolated incident, police say
RICHMOND, B.C. - Police say two men and two women who were found dead at a home after a shooting in Richmond, B.C., were from the same family. Sgt. David Lee of the Integrated Homicide Investigation T...
Jan 27, 2022
Former Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen charged with sexual assault
VANCOUVER - Former Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen has been charged with sexual assault following a police investigation. Vancouver police said Thursday the B.C. Prosecution Service approved o...
Jan 27, 2022
Biden gave Trudeau same aviator sunglasses as official summit gift, as Putin
OTTAWA - President Joe Biden gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the same pair of aviator sunglasses last year he presented to Russian President Vladimir Putin a few months earlier at a summit in Genev...
Jan 27, 2022
Canada's men's hockey team trying to come together and bond of and off ice
Canada's men's Olympic hockey team has made coming together as a unit in a short time top priority ahead of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. With two weeks before Canada opens its Olympic tournament...
Jan 27, 2022
Coast Guard finds 4 more migrant bodies off Florida coast
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The Coast Guard said Thursday that it had found four additional bodies in its search for dozens of migrants lost at sea off Florida but that it would call off its active searc...
Jan 27, 2022
ECHL player Panetta suspended for remainder of season after making 'racial gesture'
The ECHL has suspended former Jacksonville Icemen forward Jacob Panetta for the remainder of the season for a "racial gesture" directed toward South Carolina Stingrays defenceman Jordan Subban in a ga...
Jan 27, 2022