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Relive the biggest modern NHL brawl through the words of those who were involved
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The 2004 brawl between the Philadelphia Flyers and Ottawa Senators still holds the NHL record for the most penalty minutes in a game in NHL history with 419. It ended with 21 fight...
Feb 27, 2024

Former NHL fighter Donald Brashear is still playing hockey at 52 and doing it his way
Donald Brashear fought in the NHL because that was his job, not because he wanted to drop the gloves - which he did more than all but seven players to ever play in the league. "Fighting was never the ...
Feb 27, 2024

20 years since NHL's record-setting brawl, fighting is down across the league but not going anywhere
Chicago's Marcus Foligno took a hit, delivered one of his own to Minnesota's Jarred Tinordi, and the two big guys dropped the gloves. Outdoors in front of 82,000 people in the Meadowlands, it took eve...
Feb 27, 2024

Backlog of problems with federal Phoenix pay system bigger than ever: union
OTTAWA - Three unions are calling on the government to provide additional compensation to federal public servants, as issues with the Phoenix pay system continue. Eight years after the system was laun...
Feb 27, 2024

Latest job action by STF set to impact P.A. and southeast Saskatchewan
Students in the Prince Albert area will be impacted by the latest job action organized by the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation (STF).The union has announced that noon-hour supervision won't happen on ...
Feb 27, 2024

Shohei Ohtani set for Dodgers debut Tuesday in spring game vs White Sox
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Shohei Ohtani is likely to get two or three plate appearances Tuesday when he makes his exhibition debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Chicago White Sox. It'll be the...
Feb 27, 2024

Ottawa freezes merger notification threshold, funds housing innovation projects
OTTAWA - The federal government is freezing the threshold at which the Competition Bureau must be notified of a merger. It also announced $123 million of funding to eight homebuilders that the federal...
Feb 27, 2024

The Million Reasons Run
The Million Reasons Run is a free running challenge held throughout May. You choose your running and fundraising goals and run wherever, however you like. Funds raised will go to life-saving research ...
Feb 27, 2024

Priest facing sexual assault charge in Nunavut will not be dismissed from Oblates
A French priest accused of sexually abusing Inuit children in Nunavut will be allowed to remain a member of the Oblates congregation after leadership in Rome ruled against his dismissal. Johannes Rivo...
Feb 27, 2024

Extreme cold warnings persist in large parts of Saskatchewan
The cold snap that followed a winter storm in Saskatchewan is expected to last until Wednesday.Large portions of Saskatchewan's west-central and northern areas went under extreme cold warnings from En...
Feb 27, 2024