This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports’ daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what’s happening in sports by subscribing here. Here are some things for Canadian fans to keep an eye on: Track and field: The Diamond League season begins The first of 15 meets in the global series takes…
Two puppies, both Pug crosses, are adjusting to their temporary home in West Kelowna, B.C., after being abandoned in a box on the side of the road in the Shuswap. “They were very, very thirsty. They were dehydrated. They were covered in fleas,” said Romany Runnalls, president of the Okanagan Humane Society (OHS). The seven-week…
There’s been no shortage of speculation about how U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments about Canada might impact the federal election. It’s now time to start asking a new, longer-term question: About how his attitude will impact Canada beyond Monday’s election. It now seems increasingly obvious that Trump’s expansionist aspirations are no fleeting fancy. He kept…
No evidence was heard Thursday at the trial of five former world junior hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018. Michael McLeod, Dillon Dubé, Cal Foote, Carter Hart and Alex Formenton each faces one count of sexual assault. McLeod faces an additional count of being a party to an…
Having municipalities cut development fees is a policy plank shared by both the Liberals and Conservatives to get more housing built, but Calgary’s mayor warns the move could do the opposite. Development fees are paid to municipalities by builders to help fund infrastructure like roads, sewers and electricity. If elected, the Conservatives announced the party…
It’s only April, and 2025 is already shaping up to be the worst year for measles since the disease was declared eliminated in 1998 in Canada. Ontario continues to be the epicentre of the spread. Public Health Ontario is reporting 1,018 confirmed and probable cases of measles so far this year. The vast majority of…
The Professional Women’s Hockey League will expand to Vancouver and begin play next season, the league announced on Wednesday. The decision to expand to Vancouver had been rumoured for weeks, and was finally confirmed at a press conference in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday morning. The official announcement was made by players from a local girls’ under-11…
Katrine Sinclair and Charlie Lastowsky were struck by a vehicle in Las Vegas, suffering life-altering injuries with little to no medical insurance. Source link
Hudson’s Bay Co. will start selling off all merchandise on Friday at the six stores previously spared from liquidation, effectively ending the retail empire’s reign and significantly dimming the possibility that the business dating back to 1670 will stay alive. Canada’s oldest company is making the move because “it is unlikely” that it will find…
Rory Linkletter will return home to Canada next month with a clear-cut goal for his Ottawa Marathon debut. “I want to try to win a marathon,” he told CBC Sports before placing sixth on Monday in Boston, where he took 59 seconds off his personal best, finishing in two hours seven minutes two seconds. “Ottawa was…
