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Football Canada, NFL Canada reach agreement on long-term deal
TORONTO - Football Canada has partnered with NFL Canada to support and grow the sport in this country. The three-year deal, announced Friday, will focus on youth participation programs (boys and girls...
May 05, 2023
Formula E considering a return to Canada as new GEN3 engine revolutionizes sport
Formula E's chief executive officer says that a Canadian stop on the electric car racing circuit would make a lot of sense. Jamie Reigle, who is from Vancouver, spoke on Wednesday about the possibilit...
May 05, 2023
Made in Alberta Readers' Choice Award Finalist started business from pandemic pastime
Alana Hofstede of Western Beauty Co. says making beauty products wasn't a lifelong dream of hers but was born out of a pandemic hobby she started with her daughter. As everyone was cooped up inside th...
May 05, 2023
City and County of Grande Prairie partner to promote Emergency Preparedness Week
The City and County of Grande Prairie are teaming up to promote a national awareness initiative, Emergency Preparedness Week, which runs from May 7 to 13.Mayor Jackie Clayton said in a release, "We're...
May 05, 2023
Five things to know about the NHL playoffs
The Toronto Maple Leafs face a serious climb in the second round, and Canadian teams get a night off in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Here are five things to know as we head into Friday's post-season acti...
May 05, 2023
In The News for May 5 : A look at April's employment numbers
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of May 5 ... What we are watching in Canada ... S...
May 05, 2023
Leaders express disappointment with changes to Canadian North airline
YELLOWKNIFE - Northern leaders say they are disappointed with changes that allow Canadian North to increase prices and reduce flight service in remote communities, but the airline says it will be bett...
May 05, 2023
'The ship sank all over again': Families of victims in wreck recall Gordon Lightfoot
Darren Muljo was six years old when his teacher asked the students in his elementary school class to pick a song they wanted to learn to play. Muljo, now 52, chose the 1976 song "The Wreck of the Edmu...
May 05, 2023
'We are in a crisis': Red Dress Day honoured as leaders say more work to be done
The head of the Native Women's Association of Canada says it's clear there's an ongoing emergency nearly four years after the final report into missing and murdered Indigenous woman and girls was rele...
May 05, 2023
Interior communities brace for weekend rain as floods forecasted in Okanagan
People in the British Columbia community of Grand Forks are hustling to get ahead of a deluge of melting snow and heavy rainfall after learning a costly lesson about flooding five years ago. The commu...
May 05, 2023