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Ottawa Redblacks sign free-agent defensive back Brooks
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Redblacks signed American defensive back Cariel Brooks to one-year contract Tuesday. Brooks, 31, spent five seasons with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He had 35 tackles and six pass kno...
Feb 14, 2023
Boxing Canada to boycott women's championships over Russian, Belarusian involvement
TORONTO - Boxing Canada announced Tuesday it is joining a boycott of the upcoming women's world championships due to the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes. President Ryan O'Shea said in...
Feb 14, 2023
Liberal MP Greg Fergus breached Conflict of Interest Act with letter, watchdog rules
OTTAWA - The federal ethics commissioner says Liberal MP Greg Fergus breached the Conflict of Interest Act by writing a letter to Canada's broadcast regulator to support a television channel's applica...
Feb 14, 2023
Argos GM Pinball Clemons won't be running to replace Tory as Toronto mayor
TORONTO - The timing still isn't right for Michael (Pinball) Clemons to dive into politics. With John Tory soon to make his exit from his post as Toronto's mayor, the Toronto Argonauts general manager...
Feb 14, 2023
‘There’s going to be change’: Riders set to revamp roster during free-agency period
After a few seasons of preaching stability, the Saskatchewan Roughriders appear to be set for some big changes for 2023.The Riders finished the 2022 CFL season with a 6-12 record, which included a sev...
Feb 14, 2023
MPs summon big grocery store CEOs to testify in Ottawa over food inflation
OTTAWA - The heads of Canada's largest grocery store chains have been summoned to a House of Commons committee to answer for rising grocery prices. On Monday, a committee studying food price inflation...
Feb 14, 2023
La Ronge men fined $18,600 for killing woodland caribou
The last of three men charged for their involvement in illegally chasing and killing a woodland caribou on a northern lake last spring was recently sentenced in La Ronge Provincial Court.Fines for the...
Feb 14, 2023
'Rips your heart out:' Two men learn they were switched at birth in Manitoba hospital
Edward Ambrose remembers wanting to be just like his father - a mentor, a hard worker, a proud family man. More than sixty years later, Ambrose would receive shocking news. That man was not his father...
Feb 14, 2023
SCIC Celebrates Funding for Public Engagement in International Cooperation!
At an event celebrating International Development Week, the Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of C...
Feb 14, 2023
Turpel-Lafond stripped of honorary degree over claims of Indigenous heritage
REGINA - The University of Regina says it has rescinded the honorary doctor of laws degree it awarded to Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond in 2003 as she faces questions about her Indigenous heritage. The Univ...
Feb 14, 2023