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Ottawa will shut down shady post-secondary institutions if provinces don't: Miller
OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Ottawa is ready to step in and shut down shady schools that are abusing the international student program if provinces don't crack down on them. Miller s...
Feb 27, 2024
Senators-Flyers 2004 brawl in Philadelphia still holds NHL record for most penalty minutes
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The root of one the wildest brawls in NHL history came only a week earlier, when Ottawa's Martin Havlat's rocked Mark Recchi in the face with his stick and drew a two-game suspensi...
Feb 27, 2024
Relive the biggest modern NHL brawl through the words of those who were involved
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The 2004 brawl between the Philadelphia Flyers and Ottawa Senators still holds the NHL record for the most penalty minutes in a game in NHL history with 419. It ended with 21 fight...
Feb 27, 2024
20 years since NHL's record-setting brawl, fighting is down across the league but not going anywhere
Chicago's Marcus Foligno took a hit, delivered one of his own to Minnesota's Jarred Tinordi, and the two big guys dropped the gloves. Outdoors in front of 82,000 people in the Meadowlands, it took eve...
Feb 27, 2024
Former NHL fighter Donald Brashear is still playing hockey at 52 and doing it his way
Donald Brashear fought in the NHL because that was his job, not because he wanted to drop the gloves - which he did more than all but seven players to ever play in the league. "Fighting was never the ...
Feb 27, 2024
Backlog of problems with federal Phoenix pay system bigger than ever: union
OTTAWA - Three unions are calling on the government to provide additional compensation to federal public servants, as issues with the Phoenix pay system continue. Eight years after the system was laun...
Feb 27, 2024
Shohei Ohtani set for Dodgers debut Tuesday in spring game vs White Sox
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Shohei Ohtani is likely to get two or three plate appearances Tuesday when he makes his exhibition debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Chicago White Sox. It'll be the...
Feb 27, 2024
Ottawa freezes merger notification threshold, funds housing innovation projects
OTTAWA - The federal government is freezing the threshold at which the Competition Bureau must be notified of a merger. It also announced $123 million of funding to eight homebuilders that the federal...
Feb 27, 2024
Priest facing sexual assault charge in Nunavut will not be dismissed from Oblates
A French priest accused of sexually abusing Inuit children in Nunavut will be allowed to remain a member of the Oblates congregation after leadership in Rome ruled against his dismissal. Johannes Rivo...
Feb 27, 2024
Changes needed to ensure safer, more resilient RCMP, union mental-health report says
OTTAWA - The union representing front-line Mounties is urging the RCMP to move beyond "patchwork solutions" to ensure the mental health of officers amid concerns they face increasing risks to their we...
Feb 27, 2024