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Canada welcomes home Olympians after Tokyo Games with an outdoor drive-in celebration
TORONTO - Team Canada's athletes are being welcomed home now that the torch at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been extinguished. The athletes spent more than two weeks in Japan competing, while over...
Aug 12, 2021
Will climate change spark interest as an election issue?
Precipice, tipping point, code red for humanity: just some of the descriptions being made following the stark and dire United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report since it w...
Aug 12, 2021
Canada's Mike Weir excited to make Shaw Charity Classic debut
CALGARY - Mike Weir made history at the 1999 Air Canada Championship at Northview Golf and Country Club in Surrey, B.C. More than 20 years later, the 51-year-old golfer from Sarnia, Ont., is hoping fo...
Aug 12, 2021
Chisox, Yanks awed at Field of Dreams, MLB promises repeat
DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) - As the bus carried the New York Yankees through the cornfields blanketing this serene, rolling farmland of northeast Iowa, Aaron Judge noticed a difference from the usual arriv...
Aug 12, 2021
Heat, low humidity and wind gusts are working against firefighting cause in B.C.
VANCOUVER - High temperatures, low humidity and an increase in winds are making wildfire conditions challenging in southern British Columbia, says the provincial deputy forests minister. Rick Manwarin...
Aug 12, 2021
Rory MacDonald looks to put controversial loss behind him as he returns to PFL action
It's been some eight weeks since Rory (The Red King) MacDonald lost to Gleison Tibau, and the Canadian welterweight still can't believe it. MacDonald remains incredulous that he was at the wrong end o...
Aug 12, 2021
In a TFC season with more downs than ups, coach Javier Perez hopes to bring stability
TORONTO - In a season that has featured more downs than ups, Toronto FC is looking forward to some stability under coach Javier Perez. On Monday, the MLS club removed the interim tag from Perez's titl...
Aug 12, 2021
Bombers QB Collaros ready to run against former team Toronto in Week 2 CFL action
WINNIPEG - Zach Collaros received cheers for more than the two touchdown passes he threw last week in Winnipeg's victory over Hamilton. Fans also liked it when the Blue Bombers quarterback scrambled f...
Aug 12, 2021
Away from his family, Toronto FC midfielder Nick DeLeon goes his own way
TORONTO - After practice Thursday, Nick DeLeon emerged from the gym at Toronto FC's training centre with a smile and a bag of ice on his left knee. Just "normal" maintenance, the veteran midfielder ex...
Aug 12, 2021
LLRIB ready to hire non-members to address employee shortage
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) and Keethanow Group of Businesses is facing an employee shortage.In a statement released to band members on Aug. 11 and signed by the majority of band leadership, ...
Aug 12, 2021