By Canadian Press on February 5th, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers will be the team facing the division-rival Los Angeles Rams in the first-ever regular-season NFL game in Australia next season, and the Dallas Cowboys will be one of the teams playing the first game in Rio de Janeiro, the league said Thursday. The league had announced last ... Read More »
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Brandi Carlile isn’t hedging. When the multi-Grammy winner steps onto the field at Super Bowl to sing “America the Beautiful,” Carlile said she’ll perform fully live — with no prerecorded safety net, embracing the same risk she believes audiences take every day simply by showing up. “The people deserve to have ... Read More »
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NEW YORK (AP) — In 2015, Woody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, went on a trip to Washington, D.C. With the help of their friend Jeffrey Epstein, they were able to tour the White House. Allen’s friendship with Epstein has been known for years, but emails in the huge trove of records released by ... Read More »
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CALGARY — A lawyer for the truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash says his client is one step closer to being deported to India. Lawyer Michael Greene says Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has rejected a request for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu to stay in the country as a refugee. Greene says ... Read More »
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ZAPOPAN, Mexico (AP) — The Mexican state of Jalisco on Thursday issued a health alert and mandated the use of face masks in schools as a measles outbreak hit the state capital, a key host city for the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup. The measures come on the heels of an epidemiological alert issued by ... Read More »
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MONTPELLIER — Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime defeated Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka 6-4, 7-6 (3) in second-round men’s singles tennis action at the Open Occitanie on Thursday. Auger-Aliassime fired 16 aces and won 82 per cent of his first-serve points. The Montreal native broke on two of his 10 chances but held a 34-19 advantage on winners. Wawrinka ... Read More »
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SCOTTSBORO — Canadian Cory Johnston is off to a solid start to the 2026 Elite Series season. Johnston, of Cavan, Ont., took the lead after the first round of the circuit’s opening event on Lake Guntersville on Thursday. Johnston’s five-fish limit weight 24 pounds, nine ounces, leaving him three ounces ahead of American Bryant Smith. ... Read More »
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Mike Tirico doesn’t have many firsts left in what has been an extraordinary broadcast career. However, this isn’t a normal February for Tirico. On Sunday, Tirico will call his first Super Bowl. Immediately following the conclusion of the Seattle-New England game, Tirico will transition to his role as NBC’s primetime host for Olympic coverage. That ... Read More »
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A group of young hockey players north of Calgary will be donning and distributing stickers made in memory of three junior hockey players who died in an Alberta highway crash earlier this week. A parent of the under-13, AA Airdrie Lighting hockey team requested nearly 100 stickers with the jersey numbers of the three players ... Read More »
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey released an affidavit backing the NCAA in its eligibility case against Alabama’s Charles Bediako, who is playing in the SEC for the Crimson Tide over two years after signing an NBA two-way contract. “I respectfully ask the Court to uphold the NCAA eligibility rules challenged in ... Read More »
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The truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash has lost his bid to stay in Canada as a refugee. Lawyer Michael Greene says his client, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, learned of the ruling Wednesday and they plan to ask for a deferral of his deportation to India while another application is being considered. ... Read More »
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