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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NHLers weigh in on the idea of an all-Canadian division: 'It would be pretty unique'
Mitch Marner was asked recently about the possibility of the NHL going with an all-Canadian division next season. The league finished its pandemic-delayed 2019-20 campaign with tightly-controlled bubb...
Nov 11, 2020
Second seed Auger-Aliassime upset by Caruso in second round at Sofia Open
SOFIA, Bulgaria - Felix Auger-Aliassime became the second highly seeded Canadian to make an early exit from the Sofia Open after falling to Italy's Salvatore Caruso in second-round action Wednesday. C...
Nov 11, 2020
Montreal Impact extend Luis Binks' loan agreement with Bologna through 2021
Luis Binks has done a lot of learning in his first Major League Soccer season - though a lot of the lessons had nothing to do with soccer. The English defender joined the Montreal Impact on loan from ...
Nov 11, 2020
Garza, Butler headline AP preseason All-America team
The coronavirus pandemic initially clouded Luka Garza's decision whether to stay at Iowa or leave for the NBA. The uncertainty of the 2020-21 college basketball season and NBA draft made a tough choic...
Nov 11, 2020
Thunder promote assistant Daigneault to head coach
OKLAHOMA CITY - Much of the credit for Mark Daigneault's quick ascent to NBA head coach goes to the man he is replacing. The Oklahoma City Thunder promoted Daigneault to head coach on Wednesday, handi...
Nov 11, 2020
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League plans to play 60-game season: commissioner
QUEBEC - The commissioner of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League says players and staff always knew that getting - and staying - on the ice would be difficult this year. Positive COVID-19 cases and ...
Nov 10, 2020
Veteran harness driver Trevor Henry achieves racing milestone with dramatic victory
The US$1-million Hambletonian still beckons, but Canadian harness driver Trevor Henry still has a pretty neat career milestone to relish. The 49-year-old resident of Arthur, Ont., reached the 7,000-wi...
Nov 10, 2020
Michigan defenceman Power out of Canadian junior team selection camp
CALGARY - The University of Michigan will not release defenceman Owen Power to participate in the Canadian junior men's hockey team selection camp. Hockey Canada confirmed Tuesday that despite "ongoin...
Nov 10, 2020
No. 1 Alabama-LSU, No. 5 Texas A&M-Tennessee postponed
No. 1 Alabama at LSU and No. 5 Texas A&M at Tennessee will not be played Saturday because of COVID-19 issues, raising the number of Southeastern Conference games postponed this week to three. The ...
Nov 10, 2020
Peter Mansbridge releases 'Extraordinary Canadians' and mulls over possible memoir
TORONTO - Peter Mansbridge was at the Toronto Raptors' NBA Championship celebration in Nathan Phillips Square in June 2019 when gunfire broke out near the crowd of about one million people. The retire...
Nov 10, 2020
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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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8:30 - Canada and the province of Alberta are at a bit of a crossroads. While talks of separatism remain just talks, doe...