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Blue Bombers acquire veteran quarterback Collaros from Toronto Argonauts
TORONTO - The Toronto Argonauts dealt quarterback Zach Collaros to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Wednesday just prior to the league's trade deadline. According to a league source, the Bombers and Argos...
Oct 9, 2019
Coach John Herdman says Canada up for showdown with U.S. in Toronto
TORONTO - Coach John Herdman says Canada's upcoming CONCACAF Nations League match against the United States will come down to who wants it more. And he suggested his young Canadian team is ready ...
Oct 9, 2019
Braves don't give out tomahawks after Helsley's complaint
ATLANTA - The Atlanta Braves have not distributed their traditional red foam tomahawks to fans before Game 5 of their NL Division Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. The foam cutouts are used when...
Oct 9, 2019
Manitoba's government wants to put off court challenge over wage freeze
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is asking a judge to shelve a court challenge launched by unions representing 110,000 workers over the province's public-sector wage freeze. Two years after the...
Oct 9, 2019
Overturned truck snarls traffic near Yellowhead Highway interchange
KAMLOOPS - Emergency crews are on scene of an overturned lumber truck near downtown Kamloops.The truck is lying on its side near the interchange of Battle Street, Columbia Street and the Yellowhead Hi...
Oct 9, 2019 Image Credit: Twitter / Chris Dusseault
Canada condemns Turkish military incursion in northern Syria as destabilizing
OTTAWA - Canada has joined its major allies in firmly condemning Turkey's military incursion into northern Syria. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland made Canada's position clear in a...
Oct 9, 2019
Rays pummel Greinke, Morton clutch vs Astros to win Game 3
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Charlie Morton to the rescue, again. Kevin Kiermaier hit a go-ahead, three-run homer as Tampa Bay teed off on Zack Greinke, and the Rays got another clutch playoff performance f...
Oct 9, 2019
Undercover police officer says accused admitted details of Edmonton attack
EDMONTON - An undercover officer says a man accused of stabbing a constable and striking four pedestrians with a cube van in September 2017 detailed the attack while in a holding cell the ne...
Oct 9, 2019
Bedbound and 'bored stiff' Ozzy Osbourne cancels tour dates
LOS ANGELES - Ozzy Osbourne says he's going off the rails on a crazy train while stuck at home with health woes, but plans to be back on track soon. Osbourne says in a video posted to Twitter Wednesda...
Oct 9, 2019
Trump's firewall holds solid on Fox News' prime time
NEW YORK - Critics of President Donald Trump who wonder about the tenacity of his supporters need only to spend three hours with Fox News Channel's headliners to get an idea why. On his most influenti...
Oct 9, 2019
