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SJHL postpones four games due to COVID-19
A pair of home-and-home sets in the SJHL have been postponed.The league said players may have been in close contact with positive COVID-19 cases, with the move made under precautionary measures.The po...
Dec 29, 2021
‘The way it is nowadays:’ Sask. curler reacts to cancellation of Mixed Doubles Olympic Trials
St. Gregor's Kirk Muyres was preparing to travel to Portage la Prairie, Man., Sunday afternoon for another crack at the Olympics.He and teammate Laura Walker have been gearing up for the Mixed Doubles...
Dec 29, 2021
A Canadian sporting legend, Lionel (Big Train) Conacher could do it all
Lionel Conacher did it all. Known as The Big Train, Conacher was an overwhelming winner of CP's outstanding athlete of the half-century in 1950. He was also named Canada's top football player of the h...
Dec 29, 2021
Decathlete Damian Warner wins Lionel Conacher Award as CP's male athlete of the year
Damian Warner won gold in one of track and field's most gruelling events, masterfully laying down one terrific performance after another over 10 events and two days, in the smothering Tokyo heat. But ...
Dec 29, 2021
Connor Bedard scores four goals to enter record books, Canada thrashes Austria 11-2
EDMONTON - Connor Bedard's four goals propelled Canada to an 11-2 win over Austria at the world junior men's hockey championship on Tuesday. Mason McTavish scored twice and Cole Perfetti had a goal an...
Dec 29, 2021
SaskPower not anticipating any outages from cold weather, still recommending emergency kits
The extreme cold weather and subsequent increase in power usage aren't expected to cause any outages across the province.That's according to Scott McGregor, media relations consultant with SaskPower. ...
Dec 29, 2021
Kilde confirms his super-G dominance with 3rd straight win
BORMIO, Italy (AP) - Aleksander Aamodt Kilde mastered a tricky course to win a World Cup super-G by a large margin Wednesday for his third straight victory in the discipline. The Norwegian skier finis...
Dec 29, 2021
Author Yann Martel, former senator Murray Sinclair among 135 named to Order of Canada
OTTAWA - In a renovated shed in his garden, author Yann Martel drafts and redrafts his best sellers. The novelist writes in English, although his first language is French, and his work - including "Li...
Dec 29, 2021
COVID cases rising, Jason Kenney hoping for 2022 bounceback : In The News for Dec. 29
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 29... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Dec 29, 2021
Desmond inquiry: Nova Scotia inquest into shooting tragedy facing complex challenges
HALIFAX - Almost five years after Afghanistan war veteran Lionel Desmond killed three family members and himself, an inquiry is expected to draw to a close next month in Nova Scotia with questions sti...
Dec 29, 2021