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Iron signs three-year contract to call NHL games in Cree
Clarence Iron has confirmed he will be calling six more NHL hockey games this season in the Plains Cree language in conjunction with Sportsnet and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). Iro...
Jan 09, 2020 Clarence Iron signed a three-year contract to call NHL games in Cree. (APTN/Facebook)

Montreal businessman Starke frustrated by Alouettes ownership situation
Clifford Starke is happy for Montreal's long-suffering football fans but feels the CFL didn't give him a real chance to purchase the Alouettes. The 36-year-old Montreal businessman made repe...
Jan 09, 2020

Toronto FC goes local and then global in first two rounds of MLS SuperDraft
Toronto FC went local and then global in Thursday's MLS SuperDraft, choosing Canadian defender Nyal Higgins before picking players from Nigeria, Senegal and Denmark. The 21-year-old Higgins, a native ...
Jan 09, 2020

Demolition of Dorintosh School up for discussion at board meeting
The Dorintosh School closure is presenting some challenges for Northwest School Division #203. The board met this morning to discuss the fate of the school grounds as the announcement of its closure c...
Jan 09, 2020 (Nicole Reis/meadowlakeNOW Staff)

Prosecutors raid lawyer's office where Ghosn worked on case
Tokyo prosecutors on Wednesday raided a Japanese lawyer's office where former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn had visited regularly before skipping bail last week and fleeing to Lebanon. Japanese news fo...
Jan 09, 2020

Former NBA star Charles Barkley donates $1M to Miles College
FAIRFIELD, Ala. - Charles Barkley has donated $1 million to historically black Miles College. The Basketball Hall of Famer and former Auburn star told interim president Bobbie Knight about the donatio...
Jan 09, 2020

Canadian world junior players on the move ahead of CHL trade deadlines
The Moncton Wildcats showed this week they are serious about chasing the Memorial Cup. Director of hockey operations Ritchie Thibeau proved as much by orchestrating five separate deals, including a bl...
Jan 09, 2020

After a month in Australia, two Manitoba fire experts arrive home
WINNIPEG - Some of the first Canadian wildfire experts to help out in Australia are back home. Gerry Rosset and Andrew Prokopchuk, two Manitoba conservation officers, landed at the Winn...
Jan 09, 2020

Bombers' coach has sights set on winning another Grey Cup, not repeating
Mike O'Shea has moved on from the euphoria of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' 2019 Grey Cup victory. Winnipeg ended its dubious Grey Cup drought with a stunning 33-12 victory over the favoured Hamilto...
Jan 09, 2020

Official quits amid charges he paid women to give up babies
PHOENIX - An elected official in metro Phoenix resigned Tuesday, months after being charged with running a human smuggling operation that paid pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to give up their...
Jan 09, 2020