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Carrier a game-time decision with Canadiens facing elimination in Game 5
ARLINGTON - Alexandre Carrier will be a game-time decision with the Montreal Canadiens facing elimination in Game 5 against the Washington Capitals on Wednesday. Head coach Martin St. Louis said "a co...
Apr 30, 2025

Clean-up weeks approaching for Melfort, Nipawin
Spring is here, and a couple of local communities have scheduled their spring clean-up weeks. In Melfort, the clean-up week will be held May 20-24. Director of Public Works Kalyna Cipywnyk told northe...
Apr 30, 2025

Hudson Bay, RM of Hudson Bay enact fire ban
Two more fire bans have been implemented in the northeast. The Town of Hudson Bay and Rural Municipality (RM) of Hudson Bay 394 have both issued a complete fire ban, with both taking effect April 30. ...
Apr 30, 2025

Leafs still in Battle of Ontario driver's seat, but past playoff failures loom large
TORONTO - Auston Matthews stood in a sombre, all-too-familiar-feeling locker room. The Maple Leafs captain said all the right things to a wall of cameras flanked by reporters moments after his team wa...
Apr 30, 2025

Hockey players' sexual assault trial shown security, phone videos
LONDON - A young woman prosecutors allege was sexually assaulted by five hockey players in June 2018 said it was "all consensual" in a cellphone video recorded near the end of the encounter. The video...
Apr 30, 2025

Hockey players' sexual assault trial shown security, phone videos
LONDON - The sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team watched security footage today from a bar and the hotel where the players were staying the night of the al...
Apr 30, 2025

Quebec Inuit representative wants investigation over voting problems in Nunavik
MONTREAL - An organization representing Quebec Inuit wants Elections Canada to investigate reports that some people in Nunavik were unable to vote in Monday's federal election. Makivvik says polling h...
Apr 30, 2025

MacKinnon in the mix for second straight Lindsay Award along with Makar, Kucherov
TORONTO - Colorado Avalanche centre Nathan MacKinnon is in the mix for a second straight Ted Lindsay award. The NHL Players' Association on Wednesday announced the finalists for the award given annual...
Apr 30, 2025

Canadian Dante Leon goes after submission grappling world title in Bangkok
Seventeen years after being introduced to Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Canadian Dante Leon goes after a world title Friday. The 29-year-old from Harrow, Ont., who now calls Toledo, Ohio, home, faces American ...
Apr 30, 2025

Event planners across Canada rethinking security practices following Vancouver attack
TORONTO - Event organizers across Canada say they're combing over their security practices in the wake of Saturday night's deadly attack on a Vancouver street festival, hoping to fill any gaps to prot...
Apr 30, 2025