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 ...
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Jamie Nye: I hope I end up being wrong regarding Covid-19 and the CFL
It feels like the NFL and the CFL are currently immune to major delays in their seasons because, after all, these leagues don't start until later. But later will be coming faster than we know. In fact...
Mar 17, 2020
Jamie Nye: CFL pondering a change to rouge? I hope so
The CFL has a new innovation committee. While on the Green Zone on Friday, commissioner Randy Ambrosie brought up a rule change that he thinks could garner some support. And it's a rule change I've lo...
Mar 02, 2020
Jamie Nye: XFL isn't a threat to CFL talent, yet
The XFL is starting to pluck a handful of CFLers. Future Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee S.J. Green went south. Then Derek Dennis found work. Receiver Armanti Edwards has also made the decisio...
Feb 20, 2020
Jamie Nye: The long road to Saskatchewan for James Franklin
Finally, after three years, he has arrived in Saskatchewan. Quarterback James Franklin has signed with the CFL's Roughriders. Franklin admitted to the Green Zone on Tuesday that, yes, when Chris Jones...
Feb 12, 2020
'I'm coming in as the backup': Franklin joins Roughriders
James Franklin is ready to be the backup quarterback in Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced they signed the 28-year-old pivot to a one-year contract on Tuesday -- the first day of CFL...
Feb 12, 2020 James Franklin. (File photo by Johany Jutras/CFL.ca)
O'Day doesn't expect Roughriders to be active to start free agency
Saskatchewan Roughriders general manager Jeremy O'Day doesn't expect to be a big player when CFL free agency hits Tuesday. "I would say that we're probably not going to be very active in free agency. ...
Feb 10, 2020 Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Craig Dickenson (left) and general manager Jeremy O'Day. (Britton Gray/980 CJME file photo)
Jamie Nye: CFL negotiating window was a win for league and fans
The CFL's new negotiating window has closed ahead of Tuesday's free-agent deadline. And I'm willing to call it a resounding success -- not for yielding a bunch of accepted offers but for generating so...
Feb 10, 2020
Jamie Nye: XFL 2.0 is just another spring league
Like the XFL 1.0 or the AAF or any other spring league that has tried, XFL 2.0 doesn't have much of a chance. But football fans will give it a go, mainly because it's Vince McMahon behind it and be ho...
Feb 07, 2020
Wray Morrison: A game of the ages
We were reminded of how football can take down boundaries like no other sport when watching Super Bowl LIV on Sunday. There was a great moment on FOX, when 24-year-old Kansas City Chiefs quarterback P...
Feb 03, 2020
Jamie Nye: Super Bowl LIV checked all the boxes
Super Bowl LIV was exactly the game we all want every year. Great stories, great drama, a great halftime show and a great fourth quarter. We got it all on Sunday. First, the Kansas City Chiefs did wha...
Feb 03, 2020
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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 - Friday, April 10
8:30 - After another conservative MP crossed the floor to the Liberals earlier this week, we wanted to get thoughts from...