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CP NewsAlert: Lions GM Hervey steps down for personal reasons
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Lions are in the market for a new general manager. The CFL club announced Friday that GM Ed Hervey has advised the franchise that he's stepping down for personal reasons. Hervey j...
Oct 16, 2020
Toronto FC captain Michael Bradley could return to action Sunday against Atlanta
Toronto FC captain Michael Bradley, who has missed the last nine games with a knee injury, could return to action Sunday against Atlanta United. "(There's a) very good chance that he could be availabl...
Oct 16, 2020
Toronto FC coach has to watch young sons go into quarantine from a distance
Forced to play games south of the border due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, Toronto FC coach Greg Vanney has had to watch from a distance as his family back home went into lockdown. Vanney's 12-year...
Oct 16, 2020
Awash in red ink: US posts record $3.1T 2020 budget deficit
WASHINGTON - The federal budget deficit hit an all-time high of $3.1 trillion in the 2020 budget year, more than double the previous record, as the coronavirus pandemic shrank revenues and sent spendi...
Oct 16, 2020
Ottawa Senators sign forward Rudolfs Balcers to a one-year, two-way contract
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators have signed forward Rudolfs Balcers to a one-year, two-way contract. The deal is worth US$735,000 in the NHL and $70,000 in the American Hockey League. The 23-year-o...
Oct 16, 2020
'A tragedy for Quebec': Pierre Laporte's death remembered 50 years later
MONTREAL - At age 91, Marc Lalonde still remembers the shock he felt on Oct. 17, 1970 when Pierre Laporte's body was discovered in the trunk of a car at an airport south of Montreal, a week after he h...
Oct 16, 2020
Possible COVID-19 exposures in Sask. communities
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is alerting residents of possible COVID-19 exposures in the province.According to a media release, the SHA is instructing those who were at the locations on the...
Oct 16, 2020
UK says EU trade talks 'over' but bloc sees room for a deal
LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday that the U.K. must prepare for a no-deal break with the European Union unless there is a "fundamental" change of position from the bloc, as th...
Oct 16, 2020
UK's Johnson threatens to impose restrictions on Manchester
LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatened to force the Greater Manchester region into the most severe level of COVID-19 restrictions after local officials refused to accept the government's fin...
Oct 16, 2020
New quantum centre in Ontario to probe nature's deepest and weirdest secrets
WATERLOO, Ont. - Canadian research will probe some of the deepest and strangest properties of the world within the atom in a new centre for the study of quantum matter. Quantum matter is the basic sci...
Oct 16, 2020