Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
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Homegrown receiver Lemar Durant signs extension with B.C. Lions
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Lions have signed Canadian wide receiver Lemar Durant to a one-year extension that will keep him with the team through the 2022 season.The native of Coquitlam, B.C., was named the...
Dec 21, 2020
QMJHL hopes to return to action with events in four cities next month
MONTREAL - The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League says its 12 Quebec-based teams will resume play next month in Chicoutimi, Drummondville, Rimouski and Shawinigan during the second wave of the COVID-19...
Dec 21, 2020
Provinces examining NHL proposal to play games in Canada beginning in January
TORONTO - The NHL has unveiled its plan. The league and players' association will attempt a 56-game regular season in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic's raging second wave, one set to include a Cana...
Dec 21, 2020
World junior hockey championship says no new positive COVID-19 tests for players
EDMONTON - The International Ice Hockey Federation says there are no new positive tests for COVID-19 among players on the 10 teams at the world junior championship. Since the teams entered the competi...
Dec 21, 2020
Canadian Vasek Pospisil wins year-end comeback player of the year award
Canada's Vasek Pospisil has been named the ATP Tour's comeback player of the year. Pospisil, from Vancouver, reached two tournament finals during the abbreviated 2020 season after undergoing back surg...
Dec 21, 2020
Loss of sponsor to pandemic prompts Olympic lugers Walker, Snith to be creative
CALGARY - Olympic silver medallists Tristan Walker and Justin Snith pivoted when they lost a financial sponsor to the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canada's luge doubles team didn't feel ...
Dec 21, 2020
Canada's Reece Howden wins World Cup ski cross gold
VAL THORENS, France - Canada's Reece Howden won gold in men's World Cup ski cross and Marielle Thompson placed third among women Monday. Howden, from Cultus Lake, B.C., and Thompson, from Whistler, B....
Dec 21, 2020
COVID-19 pandemic forced a shift of Canada's football focus to south of the border
The COVID-19 pandemic put a damper on tackle football in Canada in 2020, but it didn't stop Canadians from shining on the field of play. The novel coronavirus forced the CFL, U Sports and junior ranks...
Dec 21, 2020
Star power added to nationals as Ontario and Manitoba cancel curling playdowns
More star power was added to the national curling championships on Monday when Ontario and Manitoba cancelled provincial playdowns due to the pandemic and instead declared representatives to compete i...
Dec 21, 2020
Swiss skier Zenhaeusern wins season-opening World Cup slalom
ALTA BADIA, Italy - Ramon Zenhaeusern won the first men's World Cup slalom of the season on Monday, improving from eighth position after the opening run. The Swiss skier beat two Austrians - Manuel Fe...
Dec 21, 2020
OPINION
Sarah Mills: There are echoes of Brexit in the Albert separation issue
A referendum over whether Alberta should separate from Canada is looming closer, and Sarah Mills says there are similari...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, May 26
Evan discusses the consequences of Alberta's separatism talk, unearths a Saskatchewan gem to visit this summer and meets...