Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
Tag Archives: CFL
Elimimian, Arceneaux inching closer to game action
A pair of the Saskatchewan Roughriders' top free-agent signings this off-season could soon find themselves in game action for the first time in 2019. Linebacker Solomon Elimimian and receiver Emmanuel...
Jun 27, 2019 Linebacker Solomon Elimimian (10) practises with the Saskatchewan Roughriders on June 27, 2019. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
Darrell Davis: CFL defines malice, stupidity
Makana Henry was fined for stupidity. There's not exactly a CFL rule that prevents stupidity, so officially Henry was fined an undisclosed amount for ducking a shoulder into Ottawa Redblacks quarterba...
Jun 27, 2019
Jamie Nye: Is football enough to get fans to the park?
The Canadian Football League could do the Saskatchewan Roughriders a big favour and STOP giving them the Toronto Argonauts for the home opener. Last year the home opener was the lowest-attended game, ...
Jun 26, 2019
Darrell Davis: CFL crowds alarmingly low
Is anybody else worried about the CFL? Specifically, attendance is suffering. People aren't going; through seven games, the average crowd is about 22,000. And that number might be off because the CFL ...
Jun 24, 2019
CFLPA president defends decision to appeal Lawrence suspension
Simoni Lawrence's hit on Zach Collaros in Week 1 of the CFL regular season continues to reverberate across the CFL. Lawrence, a linebacker with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, hit Collaros in the head as the...
Jun 21, 2019 (CFLPA.ca)
Jamie Nye: I'm not picking sides in CFL/CFLPA spat; both look bad
The Canadian Football League and its players' association have taken what turned into a pretty sour labour negotiation right into the start of the season. Both parties have taken shots at each other i...
Jun 21, 2019
Redblacks hold off Roughriders in Ottawa
The Ottawa Redblacks handed the Saskatchewan Roughriders their second straight loss to start the 2019 CFL regular season Thursday. Dominique Davis completed 30 of 39 pass attempts for 354 yards and th...
Jun 20, 2019 Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver Shaq Evans. (File photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Roughriders)
'I made it out:' Football helped Riders' Davis escape streets of hometown
Camden, N.J., isn't a place anyone would call paradise, but Dyshawn Davis called it home. Camden has one of the highest crime rates in the U.S., with drugs, gangs and guns being almost unavoidable. "A...
Jun 20, 2019 Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker Dyshawn Davis during the team's first pre-season game on June 6, 2019. (Photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Roughriders/Liam Richards, Electric Umbrella)
Wray Morrison: A chilly June
The CFL Players' Association is under fire from many for contesting the league's attempt to suspend Hamilton Tiger-Cats linebacker Simoni Lawrence for two games following last Thursday's hit on Roughr...
Jun 20, 2019
Darrell Davis: It's settled -- Ottawa wins!
Ten days ago it would have been easy to think the Saskatchewan Roughriders would defeat the hometown Ottawa Redblacks in tonight's CFL game. The Redblacks were supposed to be a mess after an off-seaso...
Jun 20, 2019
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Sarah Mills: The prime minister needs to live by his own bilingual rules
Sarah Mills says Mark Carney largely speaking French in his call to astronaut Jeremy Hansen breaks a standard he set whe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 9
8:30 - Another MP just crossed the floor to the Liberal Party, just weeks away from three critical byelections where the...