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Wall, Paredes and Morrow named CFL top performers for Week 2
TORONTO - Calgary defensive back Titus Wall, Stampeders kicker Rene Paredes and Saskatchewan running back Jamal Morrow are the CFL's top players for Week 2 of the season. Wall had his first career int...
Jun 21, 2022

Canada's Bianca Andreescu cruises past Martina Trevisan in first round at Bad Homburg
BAD HOMBURG, Germany - Canada's Bianca Andreescu cruised to a 6-3, 6-1 win over seventh seed Martina Trevisan in first-round action Tuesday at the Bad Homburg Open grass-court tennis tournament. Andre...
Jun 21, 2022

New multi-event challenges have Newman vaulting better than she has in years
Alysha Newman was a few weeks removed from a devastating Tokyo Olympic performance when the severity of her concussion hit home. The specialist she'd visited at a California hospital was showing her p...
Jun 21, 2022

Plans well underway for 30th anniversary of Rotary Dream Home Lottery
The Rotary Club of Grande Prairie has selected the builder and location of the grand prize for the 2023 Dream Home Lottery. For the second time in the lottery's 30-year history, Unique Home Concepts h...
Jun 21, 2022

Texas top cop: Uvalde police response an 'abject failure'
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Law enforcement authorities had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, the Texas public...
Jun 21, 2022

Watchdog clears Vancouver police for less-lethal rounds at 'Freedom Convoy' protest
OTTAWA - The Ontario police watchdog says two Vancouver police officers did not commit a criminal offence by shooting less-lethal rounds at two protesters during the "Freedom Convoy"' demonstration in...
Jun 21, 2022

Canadian sprint star Andre De Grasse withdraws from national championship with COVID
Sprint star Andre De Grasse will miss the Canadian track and field championships this week after testing positive for COVID-19. The six-time Olympic medallist was rounding into form, winning the 100 m...
Jun 21, 2022

Montreal, Toronto tangle in Canadian Championship semifinal
TORONTO - The semifinals of the Canadian Championship have once again pitted the two biggest soccer clubs in the country against one another in what is affectionately known as the Canadian Classique. ...
Jun 21, 2022

Earl and Countess of Wessex to underscore UK-Cyprus ties
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - The Earl and Countess of Wessex met Tuesday with the president of Cyprus as part of a three-day visit to the former British colony to underscore close bilateral ties and to meet...
Jun 21, 2022

UK rail strike strands commuters, pits workers against govt
LONDON (AP) - Tens of thousands of railway workers walked off the job in Britain on Tuesday, bringing the train network to a crawl in the country's biggest transit strike for three decades. About 40,0...
Jun 21, 2022