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Canada men's soccer team forms players association as World Cup money talks continue
TORONTO - The Canadian men's soccer team has formed a players association as compensation negotiations continue with Canada Soccer. The players and their governing body are attempting to strike a deal...
Aug 11, 2022
Man who tried to breach FBI office killed after standoff
WILMINGTON, Ohio (AP) - An armed man clad in body armor who tried to breach the FBI's Cincinnati office on Thursday was shot and killed by police after he fled the scene and engaged in an hourslong st...
Aug 11, 2022
Paddling to exorcism: Abuse allegations spark new regulations at Saskatchewan schools
REGINA - Saskatchewan is stepping in to supervise three independent schools after a proposed class-action lawsuit was filed against former teachers, pastors and church elders for alleged abuse of stud...
Aug 11, 2022
Upgrades to 108 Street road, manhole and catch basin repairs in Avondale and College Park
The City of Grande Prairie is continuing infrastructure projects. 108 Street108 Street north of 132 Avenue will be closed to allow crews to begin making upgrades to the existing gravel road starting T...
Aug 11, 2022
Pacific, York United swap midfielders with Baldisimo heading west and Toussaint east
TORONTO - York United FC and Pacific have swapped midfielders, with Cedric Toussaint headed to Pacific and Matthew Baldisimo to York. Balidisimo, in the last year of his contract, comes east on a loan...
Aug 11, 2022
Monday hearing set for 2 ex-cops in George Floyd's killing
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A judge scheduled a hearing for Monday on the "status of plea negotiations" for the two remaining officers awaiting trial on state charges in the killing of George Floyd, with the h...
Aug 11, 2022
Sentencing hearing for man convicted in Amanda Todd case set for September
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A sentencing hearing for a Dutch national convicted of harassing and extorting British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd before her suicide has been scheduled for next month. Justi...
Aug 11, 2022
Review concludes Whitecaps' response to misconduct allegations was appropriate
An independent investigation has concluded that the Vancouver Whitecaps' response to allegations of misconduct by former women's coaches Bob Birarda and Hubert Busby Jr., was serious and "appropriate....
Aug 11, 2022
Wrestler Eekeeluak Avalak dedicates historic Canada Games gold to his late brother
THOROLD, Ont. - Eekeeluak Avalak was guaranteed to make history even before he stepped onto the mat on Thursday. The 18-year-old wrestler from Cambridge Bay won not only Nunavut's first ever medal at ...
Aug 11, 2022
Saskatchewan man cut through fence to cross U.S. border with children: border patrol
The United States Border Patrol says a convicted Canadian sex offender drove through a barbed wire fence to cross theinternational border with two children and their mother. The border patrol said age...
Aug 11, 2022