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Family Affair: Leafs lick their wounds after 'unacceptable' loss to Lightning
TORONTO - Maple Leafs head coach Mike Babcock gathered his players at Toronto's practice facility Friday morning. That part shouldn't come as a surprise - teams usually meet before hitting t...
Oct 11, 2019

Eskimos hope to lock up playoff berth and eliminate Lions
EDMONTON - A win over the visiting B.C. Lions on Saturday won't just ensure the Edmonton Eskimos make the playoffs. It also will buy the Eskimos some time to get their game straightened out ...
Oct 11, 2019

Bedbound and 'bored stiff' Ozzy Osbourne cancels tour dates
LOS ANGELES - Ozzy Osbourne says he's going off the rails on a crazy train while stuck at home with health woes, but plans to be back on track soon. Osbourne says in a video posted to Twitter Wednesda...
Oct 11, 2019

Alberta incorporates energy war room as Canadian Energy Centre, work starts soon
EDMONTON - Alberta's energy war room is now a legal entity with a new name, a new managing director and a plan to be running by Christmas. Energy Minister Sonya Savage said the Canadian Energy Centre ...
Oct 11, 2019

Shepard Smith leaves Fox News Channel
NEW YORK - Shepard Smith, whose newscast on Fox News Channel seemed increasingly an outlier on a network dominated by supporters of President Trump, says he is leaving the network. His last broadcast ...
Oct 11, 2019

Jagmeet Singh ignores surging Bloc as he courts union votes in Quebec
MONTREAL - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh painted his Liberal, Conservative, and Green rivals as unfriendly to to the labour movement on Wednesday, as he sought to shore up his party's traditional...
Oct 11, 2019

Annual Influenza Vaccine Clinics To Start Week Of October 21
Saskatchewan residents with a valid health card can get their flu shot starting the week of October 21 at public health clinics, local pharmacies, and some physician and Nurse Practitioner offices. "A...
Oct 11, 2019

California adopts broadest US rules for seizing guns
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a law that will make the state the first to allow employers, co-workers and teachers to seek gun violence restraining orders against ...
Oct 11, 2019

Riders’ Idowu worked hard to live up to standard set by older brother
Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker Oluwaseun Idowu battled literally and figuratively to get out from under his brother Olatunji's shadow for most of his life."I can't tell you how much in high schoo...
Oct 11, 2019 Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker Oluwaseun Idowu (49) during practice on Oct. 9, 2019. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)

Syrian restaurant owners filing complaint about hate messages, Toronto cops say
TORONTO - A Toronto family who said it was forced to close their popular Syrian restaurant after receiving a series of hate messages and death threats has filed a complaint with ci...
Oct 11, 2019