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Alaphilippe wins crash-marred first stage of Tour de France
LANDERNEAU, France - The mass return of Tour de France fans coincided with chaos and crashes while world champion Julian Alaphilippe avoided most of the carnage to win the opening stage with a punchy ...
Jun 26, 2021
Braves' Soroka tears Achilles tendon again, lost for season
Atlanta Braves right-hander Mike Soroka is facing season-ending surgery after again tearing his right Achilles tendon. The Braves said Saturday Soroka suffered the new tear on Thursday while walking t...
Jun 26, 2021
Decathlete Warner wins the Canadian 110-hurdles title in pouring rain
MONTREAL - Decathlon star Damian Warner won the 110-metre hurdles in pouring rain at the Canadian Olympic track and field trials on Saturday. Warner, who's using the trials as finetuning for the Tokyo...
Jun 26, 2021
RCMP make 18 arrests at old-growth logging blockades on Vancouver Island
PORT RENFREW, B.C. - Police arrested 18 people Friday as they continued to enforce an injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island. The RCMP say in a ...
Jun 26, 2021
Riders report loss of $7.5 million after 2020 CFL season cancelled due to COVID-19
REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders reported a loss of $7.5 million at their 2020-21 annual general meeting as the club deals with the financial fallout from the cancellation of the 2020 CFL season....
Jun 26, 2021
Kamloops Arts Council hires TRU alumnus as new executive director
KAMLOOPS - Tanya Nielsen was introduced as the Kamloops Arts Council's new executive director Friday (June 25)."My interest has always been in the ability to take some words and turn them into poetry,...
Jun 26, 2021
Victoria organizers get green light to have fans at Olympic basketball qualifying
Victoria will feel like home court for Canada's men's basketball team after all. Organizers for Canada's last-chance Olympic qualifying tournament which tips off Tuesday in Victoria have been given th...
Jun 26, 2021
COVID-19 restrictions could still limit celebrations as Habs try to win Stanley Cup
Montrealers won't be the only ones to start celebrating next week as the Habs make a run for Canada's first Stanley Cup in 28 years. Fans and beer drinkers from across the country will be lifting thei...
Jun 26, 2021
'Staying alive is an obsession:' Family of survivors reflect on residential schools
The weeds of residential schools are tangled throughout the family tree of Clayton Episkenew and many other Indigenous people in Canada. "I have come a long way but at times feel guilty that I am here...
Jun 26, 2021
Flames hamper rescue effort amid rubble of Florida condo
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) - Fire has spread amid the rubble of the collapsed condominium in South Florida, hampering rescue efforts, officials said Saturday. The flames are deep and firefighters have not be...
Jun 26, 2021
