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Jays shortstop Bo Bichette looks for bounceback year after injury-plagued 2024 season
DUNEDIN - Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette looks and feels like himself again at spring training after an injury-plagued 2024 season. That's good news for a player entering his walk year and a team tha...
Feb 20, 2025
Schmidt wins Canadian Challenge main 10-dog race
Garrick Schmidt is the winner of the Canadian Challenge premiere 10-dog, 322-kilometer race. Schmidt, a resident of Wawota, Sask., left La Ronge on Tuesday at 10 a.m. under extreme cold warning with t...
Feb 20, 2025
Liberals increase Sudan war refugee quota as Quebec bars relatives from resettlement
OTTAWA - The federal government is increasing the number of refugees it plans to resettle as a result of Sudan's civil war, with changes that could see 7,000 more people reach Canada through various p...
Feb 20, 2025
Timberjaks looking for upset against Delisle in round one of playoffs
The Prince Albert Timberjaks are ready to rumble this weekend as they get set for the first round of the Prairie Junior Hockey League (PJHL) playoffs. The Jr. B club is set to face off with the Delisl...
Feb 20, 2025
Insigne back in Toronto while TFC wraps up Florida training camp ahead of MLS season
Lorenzo Insigne's future with Toronto FC remains murky with news that the high-priced Italian designated player is not with the team, two days before the MLS season opener at D.C. United. "He is in To...
Feb 20, 2025
Service slower, more costly after IT overhaul at Quebec auto insurance board: auditor
QUBEC - Service is slower and more costly after a $1.1-billion overhaul of the information technology system at Quebec's auto insurance board. That's the conclusion of the province's auditor general i...
Feb 20, 2025
Language retention and revitalization is still key at annual gathering
In its 19th year, the First Nations Language Keepers Gathering remains one of Saskatchewan's essential language revitalization events.Over the course of two days, the Saskatchewan Indigenous Cultural ...
Feb 20, 2025
As Trump flags timber tariffs soon, B.C. minister says impact would be 'devastating'
VICTORIA - B.C.'s Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the expectation of more duties and additional tariffs piled onto Canadian softwood lumber would "absolutely be devastating" for the country's indust...
Feb 20, 2025
Poilievre's proposed incentives for First Nations water, resource projects draw fire
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would incentivize First Nations to support natural-resource projects through industry taxes and revisiting how much sway Indigenous Peoples and en...
Feb 20, 2025
B.C. Conservative MLA says drug crisis cost lives of her brothers, niece and nephew
VICTORIA - The House Leader of the Opposition B.C. Conservatives has described the "unsurmountable" personal impact of the toxic drug crisis, which she says claimed the lives of two of her brothers, a...
Feb 20, 2025
