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The Ontario Hockey League says it is taking recent sexual assault allegations against eight former players “very seriously” and will co-operate with any police investigation into the claims. CBC | Sports News
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Ontario woman recounts ‘frightening’ moment with Harrods’s owner Mohamed Al-Fayed
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Read More »Ontario funding new research on sports-related traumatic brain injuries
Ontario’s Minister of Sport Neil Lumsden said Wednesday he intends to one day donate his brain for concussion research, while announcing new funding for a provincewide study on traumatic brain injuries. CBC | Sports News
Read More »How a New Jersey man was wrongly arrested through facial recognition tech now in use in Ontario
A New Jersey man is sharing with CBC News the ordeal he endured after being wrongly jailed following a misidentification through Idemia facial recognition technology, the same system recently implemented by police in Ontario’s Peel and York regions. A lawsuit blames the “misuse of biased technology.” CBC | World News
Read More »It’s ‘a labour of love’ on and off the rink as Ontario roller derby team preps for playoffs in U.S.
Tri-City Thunder, based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., has players from across southern Ontario. Ranked 12th in its division, the team is fundraising to go to the playoffs in May. CBC | Sports News
Read More »McCarville books spot at Scotties with win over Burns in Northern Ontario final
Clancy Grandy of Vancouver Curling Club defeated Corryn Brown of Kamloops 11-3 on Sunday to win the B.C. women’s curling championship and book her spot in the national championship next month in Calgary. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Ottawa downs Toronto to remain perfect in PWHL’s Battle of Ontario
Ottawa’s Lexie Adzija scored an empty-net goal with 42.5 seconds remaining to give Ottawa’s Professional Women’s Hockey League team a 3-1 victory over Toronto on Tuesday night for its first home ice victory at TD Place. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Multiple sports withdraw from 2024 Ontario Winter Games in Thunder Bay
High costs and travel issues are forcing some of Ontario’s provincial sports organizations to pull out of the upcoming 2024 Ontario Winter Games in Thunder Bay. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Desbiens’ return headlines Canadian roster for upcoming Rivalry Series games in Ontario
Hockey Canada has announced the 23-player roster for the next two Canada-United States Rivalry Series games in December. The team that will play in Kitchener, Ont. on Dec. 14 and Sarnia, Ont. on Dec. 16 is headlined by starting goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens (PWHL Montreal). CBC | Sports News
Read More »El Salvador’s civil war left unmarked graves countrywide. Ontario researchers are helping find them
A Western University project documenting dozens of massacres that took place during the Salvadoran civil war is allowing survivors to reconcile their country’s history and grieve lost loved ones. CBC | World News
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