After failing to catch on with an NFL team, Nathan Rourke is making a well-timed return to the Canadian Football League’s B.C. Lions. The Lions announced the star Canadian quarterback’s return Tuesday. Rourke, who was waived on Sunday by the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, was a CFL free agent. Rourke, who starred with the Lions in…
Allergy sufferers in Canada may be able to swap their EpiPen injections for a nasal spray as early as next year. Neffy, made by drugmaker ARS Pharmaceuticals Inc., is the first epinephrine nasal spray to be approved in the United States to treat life-threatening allergic reactions known as anaphylaxis. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
The last few weeks of Alaina Tripp’s life might as well be out of a movie. What began with heartbreak last September when her puppy Teddy was stolen from her downtown Ottawa apartment, led to skepticism, then joy last month when she received a series of phone calls and messages telling her the miniature white poodle had…
This is a web version of the Buzzer, the daily email newsletter from CBC Sports. Subscribe here. Paris officially bid adieu to its Summer Games this evening with a festive closing ceremony featuring joyous athletes, live music, theatrical performances and, yes, Tom Cruise. Summer McIntosh and Ethan Katzberg — Canada’s two youngest gold medallists — shared the role of flag-bearer…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 12, 2024 12:30 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Goodyear Canada is planning to spend more than $575 million to expand and modernize an eastern Ontario plant to produce electric vehicle and all-terrain tires and make its processes more energy efficient. Prime…
The company at the heart of the travel-nurse controversy is now the subject of a complaint over unpaid wages under New Brunswick’s Employment Standards Act. A nurse who moved to the province from France to work for Canadian Health Labs as a personal support worker says the company turned his life upside down when its…
The beauty of the Olympics often comes in the form of the unexpected. Three years ago, after the Tokyo Olympics ended, it would have been hard to predict that Canada would go on to win gold medals in judo, hammer throw and breaking at Paris 2024 — yet that’s exactly what happened. In the four…
From his office overlooking the runway at Gander International Airport, Reg Wright can see all flights in and out of his corner of Newfoundland. But in recent years, those plane spottings have been fewer and farther between. “In Newfoundland, we have a saying called the fisherman’s widow, which is typically anyone that keeps eyes to…
Members of Tina Fontaine’s family and community gathered to honour her memory Saturday night, a week before the 10-year anniversary since she was found in Winnipeg’s Red River. “Tina was a sweet, sweet girl,” said her brother, Elroy Fontaine, 18, while addressing the crowd at the Alexander Docks near where her body was found in…
Lydia Ko completed her Olympic medal collection on Saturday with the most valuable of of them all, a gold medal that puts the 27-year-old Kiwi into the LPGA Hall of Fame. Ko built a five-shot lead on the back nine at Le Golf National as her closest pursuers all collapsed, and then had to hang…
