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Leafs sign defenceman Marshall Rifai to two-year contract extension
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed defenceman Marshall Rifai to a two-year contract extension, the club announced Thursday. The deal begins in 2025-26 and carries an average annual value of...
Sep 05, 2024
Canadian wheelchair racer Brent Lakatos wins Paralympic gold medal
PARIS - Canadian wheelchair racer Brent Lakatos has won a Paralympic Games gold medal. The 44-year-old from Dorval, Que., won the men's T53 800 metres. Lakatos collected his second medal in Paris afte...
Sep 05, 2024
Crozon, Team Canada look to finish on top to end Olympic year
The Canadian Women's 3x3 basketball team has left for Hangzhou, China with the goal of becoming back-to-back-to-back world champions.After what the team stated wasn't their greatest performance at the...
Sep 05, 2024
Drug investigation leads to arrest in Melfort
A Melfort man faces several charges after a drug investigation in the city. Saskatchewan RCMP's Prince Albert Crime Reduction Team and Melfort RCMP executed a search warrant at a home on Burns Ave. in...
Sep 05, 2024
Canadian Medical Association to apologize for Indigenous harm
VICTORIA - The Canadian Medical Association says it will formally apologize for the role doctors played in harming members of Canada's Indigenous communities. The group representing the country's phys...
Sep 05, 2024
US charges former Trump 2016 campaign adviser Dimitri Simes over work for sanctioned Russian TV
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government has charged a Russian-born U.S. citizen and former adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign with working for a sanctioned Russian state television net...
Sep 05, 2024
Court hearing legal arguments in sex assault case of five hockey players
LONDON, Ont. - A London, Ont., court is hearing legal arguments in the sexual assault case of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team. Dillon Dube, Carter Hart, Michael McLeod, Cal Fo...
Sep 05, 2024
B.C. residents can still get COVID shots until arrival of updated vaccines: province
British Columbia says its current supply of COVID-19 vaccines will remain available until new formulations are approved, unlike other provinces that say they're following instructions from the Public ...
Sep 05, 2024
Discord users tipped off FBI last year about suspect in Georgia school shooting, report says
WINDER, Ga. (AP) - Users of the social media site Discord tipped off the FBI last year about the teenager charged with opening fire at a Georgia high school, a sheriff's report said. A sheriff's inves...
Sep 05, 2024
Canadian swimmer Aurelie Rivard strikes gold at Paralympics, Routliffe earns bronze
PARIS - Canada's Aurelie Rivard has struck gold at the Paralympic Games. The 28-year-old from St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., won the women's S10 400-metre freestyle with a time of four minutes 29.20 sec...
Sep 05, 2024