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Air Transat to deny boarding to passengers from Sunwing party flight to Mexico
MONTREAL - Air Transat says passengers who were partying maskless on a recent Sunwing flight from Montreal to Mexico will not be allowed on its planes as they attempt to return to Canada. The airline ...
Jan 05, 2022
Top doctor says Nunavut's COVID-19 outbreak 'testing the limits' of capacity
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Cases of COVID-19 continue to rise across Nunavut, with confirmed or presumptive cases in 14 of the territory's 25 communities. There are 231 active cases of COVID-19 in Nunavut, mo...
Jan 05, 2022
Oilers place captain McDavid in COVID-19 protocol ahead of game with Maple Leafs
TORONTO - The Oilers announced that captain Connor McDavid, forward Derek Ryan and defenceman Tyson Barrie have entered the NHL's COVID-19 protocol hours before Edmonton was scheduled to face the Mapl...
Jan 05, 2022
Bob Bradley brings experience, enthusiasm and hope to Toronto FC
TORONTO - Bob Bradley wasted little time putting down roots after being named Toronto FC's head coach and sporting director. Officially hired Nov. 24, Bradley and Lindsay - his wife of 35 years - took...
Jan 05, 2022
NHL Notebook: A look at some of the stories to watch in 2022
NHL life in 2021 - like regular life - was dominated by COVID-19. The league manoeuvred, contorted and pivoted to play a 56-game campaign that culminated in July with the Tampa Bay Lightning winning t...
Jan 05, 2022
Governor pardons Plessy, of ‘separate but equal’ ruling
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana's governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 to protest racial segregati...
Jan 05, 2022
Some overloaded Quebec health-care facilities forced to cancel staff vacations
MONTREAL - Several Quebec health authorities are being forced to cancel employee vacations as the province struggles with staff shortages and rising COVID-19 hospitalizations, and some workers fear th...
Jan 05, 2022
Veteran sports journalist Machabée joins Canadiens as communications VP
MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens announced Wednesday that veteran sports journalist Chantal Machabe is the team's new vice president, communications. Machabe, a native of Laval, Que., has spent the l...
Jan 05, 2022
Undisclosed number dead in large Philadelphia house fire
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A large house fire in Philadelphia early Wednesday killed 13 people, including seven children, and sent two people to hospitals, fire officials said. Officials said at a news confe...
Jan 05, 2022
Canada's Alphonso Davies latest Bayern player to test positive for COVID-19
MUNICH - Bayern Munich says Canadian star Alphonso Davies has joined the list of players to test positive for COVID-19. The Bundesliga club says the 21-year-old fullback from Edmonton is well and self...
Jan 05, 2022