EDMONTON – Anxious to put last season’s struggled in the rear-view mirror, goaltender Tristan Jarry spent the summer preparing for what he and the Edmonton Oilers hope is a positive bounce-back season.
The Oilers have seven goaltenders in camp, but when the season begins Sept. 29, Jarry will be the main man in net. He’ll be backed by Devon Levi who was obtained in an off-season trade with Buffalo Sabres but has played only 39 NHL games over four seasons.
Frederik Andersen was projected as the No. 1 starter when he was signed as a free agent in July after leading Carolina Hurricanes to a Stanley Cup title. However, he is still recovering from a knee injury suffered during those playoffs. The Oilers expect him to return in late October.
Jarry had a strong start last season with Pittsburgh Penguins but after being traded to Edmonton on Dec. 12 he played only three games before suffering a lower-body injury and missing almost a full month.
“And when he came back, he never found his game,” general manager Stan Bowman said at training camp. “And our team didn’t really play great in front of him either, so it was somewhat of the worst circumstances.
“At that time of the year it’s tough to gain your confidence after you’ve missed some time, you’ve come back, you haven’t played your best the first couple of games when he returned from injury. And from that point forward, it never came together for him.”
Bowman said Jarry worked hard all summer and came into camp in excellent form.
“He’s setting himself up in the best way possible to bounce back,” Bowman said. “And we’re confident and hopeful that will happen.”
Jarry played in 19 games for the Oilers last season, posting a 9-6-2 record with one shutout and a 3.86 goals-against average.
“Obviously, last year didn’t go the way that I wanted. I think it’s just a confidence thing, knowing after what happened and how it did,” Jarry said of his season and the injury. “It was just having the confidence … and knowing that it’s not going to happen again.”
While the Oilers are counting on Jarry to carry the load to start the season, the team is looking at going with three goalies once Anderson returns.
“That’s going to be a little bit of an adjustment,” said Jarry. “It’ll be a great challenge for the three of us to be our best every night. To be able to manager those days when you’re not playing, to when you are playing, that’ll be the situation that you have to excel in.
“Obviously you want the best goalie in the net every night … because every night we want to have a chance to win and whichever goalie is doing that I think should have the net.”
Jarry had a taste last season of how critical of goaltenders Edmonton fans and the media have been over the last many years, even after Stuart Skinner and Calvin Pickard backstopped the team to back-to-back Stanley Cup final appearances.
“There’s obviously a lot of pressure, but there’s a lot of pressure everywhere,” said Jarry. “To be able to play for this team, with these players, and hopefully go a long way and be that last team playing in June, that’s your goal. To be the goalie for that, it would be something special.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 19, 2026.
U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to sell a message of economic strength at the Republican midterm convention in Texas. As Jackson Proskow reports, many of Trump's supporters aren't feeling an uplift from his policies.
Canada looms over Lance Thrailkill’s office as a dead, stuffed bird.
Mounted above the Texas manufacturer’s desk, a Canada goose, flanked by a mallard and four deer heads, fixes a glassy stare on the room. An open bottle of rye whiskey sits on the floor below.
It is a fitting backdrop for a conversation about another Canadian presence hanging over Thrailkill’s business: the escalating trade war between Washington and Ottawa.
At All Metals Fabricating, the third-generation family company he runs near Dallas, the price Thrailkill pays for aluminum has risen 84 per cent since tariffs were first introduced by the US in March 2025, he says. In 2026 alone, it’s up 40 per cent, he says.
But for Thrailkill, the financial pain has not become a political liability – at least not enough to change his vote.
The trade war with Canada looms over Lance Thrailkill in the form of a dead, stuffed Canada goose.
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“Certainly, the inability to get a deal done with Canada affects my … approval rating of Trump,” he says. “But it’s not going to change my vote because of all the other things that align with pro-small business, less taxes.”
That distinction is at the heart of Canada’s political gamble.
In August, after Trump imposed 50 per cent tariffs on $27.6 billion worth of Canadian goods, Ontario Premier Doug Ford urged Prime Minister Mark Carney to impose retaliatory tariffs on products from eight politically pivotal states, including Texas.
“Products from these states should face the full force of Canada’s response,” Ford wrote in a letter dated Aug. 17, days before trade talks between the two countries collapsed. The following day, Carney announced dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs.
But Canada’s retaliation is only one part of a much broader tariff fight. With the midterms approaching, the bigger question is whether tariffs are becoming a political headwind for Trump – and whether Canada’s economic pressure will translate into votes against him at the ballot box on Nov. 3.
With control of Congress being fought over in a narrow field of competitive races, even small shifts in voter sentiment could matter: Cook Political Report currently rates seven Senate contests and 21 House races as toss-ups, including Senate races in Texas.
Dallas offered a rare opportunity to test that political calculus.
Last week, Republicans gathered there for the party’s first midterm convention, hoping to rally supporters ahead of November. Yet inside the arena, a trade war that has overwhelmed political debate in Canada barely registered.
Several Texans and Republican voters interviewed by Global inside the American Airlines Center were only vaguely familiar with the dispute with Canada. Those who were aware of it often repeated Trump’s broader argument that other countries had taken advantage of the US, even as they acknowledged frustration with tariffs, prices, or Trump himself. When asked about tariffs, some answered they believed America had been too generous to the rest of the world.
Canada, in other words, was less a major topic of conversation than a bit character in a much larger political grievance.
GOP members, however, were quick to defend the US president.
“It’s not ,” former Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer told Global News, adding that tariffs could be “a tough sell in certain states,” particularly in Senate battlegrounds along the Canadian border or in states with substantial cross-border trade.
Asked whether going into the midterms amid a trade war and a conflict with Iran was wise, he replied: “No, that’s probably not the best recipe.” He nevertheless argued that Republican voters would reward Trump for being willing to fight on their behalf.
The American Airlines Center had swathes of empty seats during many speeches until Trump arrived.
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Texas might seem like fertile ground for that political risk to play out. Its economy is deeply tied to Canada, yet the relationship barely registers with many voters.
“Canada is the second largest trading partner , and Canada buys a lot of stuff that Texas has to offer and vice versa… But it’s under the radar and if you ask the average Texan they kind of shrug their shoulders and say, Canada, I didn’t know that,” says Laura Dawson, the executive director of the Future Borders Coalition and an expert on US-Canada relations, in a Zoom interview.
Texas and Canada exchanged nearly US$69 billion in goods in 2025, while 830 Canadian-owned businesses employ more than 104,000 Texans. Plastics, computers, trucks and aircraft move north; Canadian automobiles, engines, aluminum and vehicle parts move south; and crude petroleum travels in both directions.
Those economic ties create the potential for political pressure. Republicans have dominated statewide politics for three decades, but this year’s US Senate race is unusually competitive, with Democrat James Talarico narrowly leading Republican Ken Paxton in several recent polls.
Trump’s popularity is waning, too.
An Ipsos poll conducted after Canada-U.S. trade talks collapsed found 57 per cent of Americans opposed additional tariffs on Canada.
Trump’s own approval rating remains low — about 35 per cent, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, barely above a recent second-term low of 33 per cent. Tracking from public opinion research firm Civiqs found his net approval had also declined in seven of the eight states Ford urged Ottawa to target.
There are signs, then, of political vulnerability for Trump, but Canada is an unlikely culprit.
“The size of the Canadian economy is just not large enough to engage in a full-blown trade war with the United States for very long,” says Dawson. “And it’s small business that gets hit first by that.”
Canada may be able to make Americans pay for the trade war. The harder question is whether Trump will be stuck with the political cheque.
The economic consequences of the confrontation are easier to identify.
After Canada-U.S. trade talks collapsed on Aug. 21, Ottawa escalated its response, imposing retaliatory tariffs on roughly $28 billion worth of U.S. goods.
It is unclear whether Ford’s proposed targets influenced Ottawa’s 648-item list. But the measures, which took effect Sept. 8, covered steel and aluminum, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, plastics and electronics – industries with a significant presence in several of the states he named.
That day, when Global News visited Thrailkill at his workshop, he was once again requoting customers as retaliatory tariffs pushed costs higher.
“We’re having to requote every job trying to get in front of it. It’s going up every week,” he said.
About a third of his orders involve aluminum. They buy through distributors supplied by mills, many of which source from Canada, meaning tariff costs can compound as they move through the supply chain.
While he supports Trump’s “overall vision” on trade, he says his business is being negatively affected. He also criticizes the president, saying the way he talks to people is “wrong.”
But he still plans to vote Republican.
“He actually does what he says he’s going to do. And like it or not, that’s more than you can say about most political people,” says Thrailkill.
That refrain came up repeatedly.
Every Trump voter Global News spoke with applauded his perceived follow-through, and often echoed his argument that the US has carried an unfair burden in global trade.
“He’s saying everybody’s been taking advantage of the US all these years and I’m putting a stop to it – we’re not going to subsidy this country and that,” AirTractor CEO Jim Hirsch told Global News at an Olive Garden outside Dallas.
His company imports engines from Canada, though it is exempt from tariffs.
“If we had to pay 25 per cent on the engines, it would be hurting us really hard,” Hirsch said, acknowledging that direct exposure could change some voters’ minds.
But a clearer example of a company caught in the crosshairs of the trade fight sits in a nearby small town.
As Republicans converged on the city, Trump threatened to ban sales of Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier in the U.S. unless it moved production there.
Bombardier responded by pointing out that major components of its aircraft are already produced in the US.
In fact, its facility in Red Oak, a town of about 20,000 people about 30 kilometres south of Dallas, employs 440 full-time Texas workers and a network of specialized contractors to manufacture jet wings.
Red Oak Mayor Mark Stanfill told Global News the factory has a “significant, tangible impact” on the community and local economy.
“Bombardier is an important part of history, and any federal actions or trade disruptions that jeopardize the stability of their operations could have a significant impact on Texas workers, their families, and our regional economy,” Stanfill said.
Stanfill said he appreciated Trump’s efforts to bring more manufacturing and investment to the US, but said Red Oak’s Bombardier operation is “an example of exactly that.” Similarly, in Wichita, Kansas, where Bombardier has its U.S. headquarters, Mayor Lily Wu has also spoken out to protect local jobs.
But both stopped short of criticizing Trump.
That reluctance illustrates the limits of turning economic exposure into political pressure. Canada also enters the fight from a weaker economic position.
“Canada has more to lose. I mean, it’s the Canadian exports of major commodities that would be hurt first,” Dawson says. “Texas is a large economy. It’s got a lot of absorptive capacity. It’s got a lot of options from other places. So it would be Canada that gets hit first.”
And just a few kilometers away in Dallas, Republicans showed little sign of treating the dispute with Canada as an electoral threat.
Most Republican officials Global News spoke with cast the trade fight as a test of American resolve rather than a political liability.
US Rep. Randy Weber of Texas acknowledged the stakes for trade-dependent parts of his state. His district has seven ports, he said, and trade and exports are “hugely big.” Tariff policy therefore had to be “reasonable” and “calculated.”
But he expected little political damage for Trump.
“I don’t think it will lose him a lot of popularity,” Weber said, adding that some voters could instead see the confrontation as proof Trump was willing to stand up to other countries.
Illinois Rep. Mike Bost similarly argued that Ottawa would “lose more in this tariff fight than we are,” warning that continued Canadian retaliation would be “tougher on you all in Canada.”
Others were more willing to accept the costs.
Patti Lyman, Republican National Committeewoman for Virginia, said the United States had spent too long giving other countries “a free ride.” If the escalation continued, she said, “let’s see in the end who needs whose market the most.”
Higher costs, she suggested, were a price worth paying.
“Everyone will have to take a bit of a haircut.”
Republican congressional candidate Jay Feely was more blunt: “Canada needs us way more than we need Canada.”
Other elected Republicans showed little appetite to discuss the Canada dispute at all. Global News contacted 25 Republican senators and members of Congress about the trade war. Just three offices responded; none answered questions.
And Republicans most exposed to the political risks of tariffs weren’t in attendance – many from trade-reliant northern states distancing themselves from both Trump and his agenda.
For others, such as the party faithful in Dallas, the issue was often filtered through something much broader than the price of aluminum or the details of Canadian retaliation: loyalty to Trump and a belief that the United States had been treated unfairly.
Ronny Dudek, from Fort Worth, wore a shirt marking the 25th anniversary of 9/11, which fell the following day. Dudek acknowledged that “tariffs hurt people,” but argued that unequal trade had already hurt Americans.
“Yes, we should be nice to our neighbours, but trade wars are trade wars,” he said. “We still love the Canadians. The Canadian people still love us.”
He and his group got free convention tickets through the GOP website the week before. “Trump doesn’t want anyone to miss out,” he said.
Others had only a loose grasp of the Canada dispute.
The Republican Party's midterm convention was nicknamed 'Trump-a-palooza'.
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One convention-goer, dressed in Charlie Kirk-themed attire, said her overriding concern was a “Communist Socialist takeover” and acknowledged that she was unfamiliar with the trade war. Her friend then offered an unverified claim that Canada had been importing Chinese goods and reselling them to evade US. tariffs.
Monique Worthy was more blunt. The transgender former Texas congressional candidate said Canada had been taking advantage of the U.S. “for a long time,” blaming previous presidents for allowing the imbalance to persist.
Of Carney, she said: “You’re talking all this hot sh*t, but we’re the ones securing y’all. If there was no America, there’d be no Canada.” She added that Canada would “probably still be speaking German” without the US.
But that blind loyalty to Trump creates another vulnerability.
For much of the convention’s first day, the American Airlines Center was more than half empty. That changed when Trump arrived: plenty of seats remained, but the arena was suddenly far fuller — and louder.
It had been nicknamed “Trump-a-palooza” for a reason.
In his opening-night speech, Trump repeatedly returned to his own role in the midterm campaign.
“Pretend I’m on the ballot,” he told a cheering crowd.
In Trump’s telling, that makes November a referendum on him and his record — tariffs included.
Yet for all the disruption the trade fight was causing beyond the American Airlines Center, the dispute with Canada barely registered inside. Beyond a jibe about Lake Ontario and an insistence that Canada was “dying” to make a deal, Trump said little about the country even as he repeatedly praised tariffs.
One of his more memorable trade discussions had nothing to do with Canada at all.
Standing inside the Mavericks’ home arena, Trump criticized the team for trading NBA superstar Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers, comparing it to Boston’s infamous sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees more than a century ago.
“Maybe we could redo that trade,” Trump said, drawing cheers from the crowd.
“I redo deals all the time.”
With files from Jackson Proskow and Reggie Cecchini.
The disappearance of 17-year-old Jodi Henrickson has been a nearly two-decade-long mystery on Bowen Island.
There has been much speculation about what happened to her and Global News has learned the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was back on the island this week. Rumina Daya now on what her former boyfriend is saying about that.
The disappearance of 17-year-old Jodi Henrickson has been a nearly two-decade-long mystery on Bowen Island.
There has been much speculation about what happened to her and Global News has learned that the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was back on the island this week.
Henrickson’s ex-boyfriend, Gavin Arnott, was outside an Alberta courtroom this week on an unrelated matter.
Global News asked him about the new police search near his family’s property on Bowen Island.
“They’re not going to find anything just because they haven’t for the last 20 years,” he said.
“There’s nothing to implicate me, the circumstances surrounding my involvement. I know that there’s nothing that’s going to tie me to it, so it’s not really anything to bother me.”
Henrickson, who was from Squamish, disappeared after a house party on Bowen Island in June 2009.
Arnott was identified by police as a “person of interest” early on.
Two weeks before the party, Arnott, who was 19 at the time, was convicted of assaulting Henrickson, who was 17.
He received a conditional discharge and was prohibited from contacting her as part of his probation.
Henrickson has never been found and no charges have been laid.
Her brother, Rob Henrickson, told Global News that they need to know the truth about what happened.
“Justice for me and my family is understanding what happened to Jodi,” he said.
“Right now we have absolutely no idea what happened to Jodi that night.”
Global News asked the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) why investigators were on Bowen Island.
“We did not locate Jodi Henrickson’s remains,” Sgt. Freda Fong from IHIT said.
“A dedicated team of investigators on IHIT’s cold case team is committed to exhausting every lead.”
“A person of interest was identified early in the investigation and that remains unchanged.”
A recent family boating trip on Okanagan Lake turned into a rescue mission to save a baby bear cub. The family said the bear was clearly exhausted.
A recent family boating trip on Okanagan Lake turned into a wildlife water rescue mission.
Christina Zamniuk told Global News that they were boating between their Vernon lakehouse and Adventure Bay last weekend when a baby bear was spotted swimming in the middle of the lake.
She said it was clear that the cub was exhausted and struggling to keep its head above water.
The family called the B.C. Conservation Service for guidance as they were unsure what to do.
In the meantime, they were able to get a rope around the bear and brought the cub, which they named Boo Boo, onto the boat to warm up.
“His little nose was going under,” Zamniuk said.
“He was blowing bubbles. His little back legs were not moving anymore. He was just paddling with his front and he was just exhausted. So we got him in there… We got him on the boat. He was shivering, shaking, he was absolutely terrified.”
Zamniuk said they kept the bear on the boat to warm up for about an hour.
On the advice of the B.C. Conservation Service, they were told to take Boo Boo close to shore and with a loving shove, he was able to make it onto land and went on his way.
The jury has heard that Kyle Severin’s girlfriend, Jennifer Polak, was found beaten and stabbed in Severin’s Ajax basement apartment in March 2024. Catherine McDonald reports.
The 911 call placed from Kyle Severin’s phone on the night of March 30, 2024, before Jennifer Polak’s body was found in Severin’s basement apartment in Ajax, was played in an Oshawa courtroom Friday.
The male voice, sounding frantic, tells the call-taker he is at 14 Hillman Dr. and claims there were “a bunch of guys” in his house and that his girlfriend was dead in the bedroom. The man then makes a comment about fighting them off and says there is blood everywhere. The caller also says he is afraid to turn on the lights because he is afraid of getting shot. When asked how his girlfriend died, the caller responds, “she got sliced up.”
A series of disturbing text exchanges between the couple dating back to February 2023 was also shown in court.
Severin, 37, who is on trial for second-degree murder and has pleaded not guilty, repeatedly accuses Polak of cheating on him and degrades her. Polak replies that she loves him, is concerned he has been drinking and tells him to stop harassing her.
“Can’t wait until you read all of these while you’re sober,” writes Polak.
“Threaten me ever again, I’ll leave you in the f—in dust,” replies Severin.
“No one threatened you,” Polak writes back.
In subsequent text messages, Severin continues to accuse her of infidelity and asks where she is and who she is with.
Assistant Crown attorney Julie O’Connor told the jury in her opening address last week that Polak and Severin had been in a relationship for several years and that she would often visit him at his basement apartment on Hillman Drive in Ajax.
When the first officer arrived at the apartment after receiving the 911 call, the jury heard that Severin walked out of his bedroom, where Polak’s body was found moments later. Severin had blood on his hands and feet and was immediately arrested.
Polak, a mother of two who worked at a daycare in Ajax, was found behind the bedroom door.
O’Connor told the jury the evidence will show Polak had been badly beaten and her throat slit, and that two knives were found in the bedroom with blood and DNA from both Severin and Polak on the handles and blades.
The jury heard investigators also located drug paraphernalia, including a rolled-up five-dollar bill containing residue and what appeared to be a makeshift bong. Testing would later reveal the presence of cocaine on the items.
O’Connor said in her opening address that the evidence will demonstrate Polak was concerned about Severin’s mental health and substance abuse. She told others that she feared him, said he was acting unpredictably and expressed that she did not want to be around him when he was not sober.
O’Connor said Polak made her concerns known to Severin’s mother and to Severin himself.
On the night Polak was killed, O’Connor said Severin texted her that he was concerned the two had not been intimate in a while. Polak responded that she was stressed about his behaviour, his drug use and his well-being.
At 6:55 p.m. on March 30, 2024, Severin sent Polak a text message asking, “can we just enjoy our evening?”
Polak responded: “If you’re sober.”
O’Connor told the jury that evidence will be presented that Polak had told others she had decided to end her relationship with Severin and intended to do so after she helped him move out of 14 Hillman Dr. on March 31, 2024.
The Crown told the jury it will establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Severin is responsible for the injuries that caused Polak’s death and that his actions in killing the 45-year-old woman were deliberate and intentional.
Montreal Alouettes quarterback Davis Alexander (10) throws a touchdown pass during first half CFL football action against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Hamilton on Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nick Iwanyshyn
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HAMILTON – Davis Alexander and the Montreal Alouettes continue to take care of business in the East Division.
Alexander threw two TD passes to power Montreal past the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 37-25 in the annual Hall of Fame game Friday night. The Alouettes (11-3) improved to 7-0 this season versus East rivals.
“As far as I know we’re still playing for stuff,” said Alexander. “We talk about it all the time, divisional opponents, no matter where we are – whether it’s home or away – it’s a massive, massive game.
“This is a tough place to play and that’s a good football team over there. They’re kind of going through what we went through a little bit last year with the quarterback situation but they’re a heck of a football team … they battled to the end.”
Alexander was 21-of-27 passing for 218 yards while Stevie Scott ran for 108 yards on 21 carries. Alexander earned his fifth win in as many meetings with Hamilton and is now 15-0 in East matchups.
Montreal was also coming off a 48-29 road loss to the B.C. Lions but stormed out to a 24-3 halftime lead Friday night. Hamilton, under quarterback Harrison Frost, scored 22 straight fourth-quarter points to pull to within 34-25 before Gemon Green’s interception with 55 seconds remaining set up Jose Maltos Diaz’s 33-yard field goal at 14:37.
“This was a big game coming off of a loss on the road, (having) about a half-day of practice and trying to figure out who was going to play for us,” said Montreal head coach Jason Maas. “It’s nice to have 11 wins on the season and kind of be in the driver’s seat but we’ve put ourselves there by taking care of business.
“Hats off to (Hamilton) to fight all the way back in the fourth quarter but I’m glad our guys closed the door and came out of here with a victory. That’s what we need to do, especially at this time of year.”
Alexander has yet to lose consecutive games as a CFL starter. Montreal also earned a 3-0 season sweep of Hamilton but receiver Tyler Snead (knee) was hurt in the second half and didn’t return after recording four catches for 40 yards.
Hamilton (4-10) came off a bye week but suffered a fourth straight loss. The Ticats committed six turnovers (four interceptions, fumble, downs) to fall to 1-5 within the East Division and remain third.
But the Toronto Argonauts (7-6) can clinch a post-season berth and home playoff game Saturday with a win over the Edmonton Elks (10-3). Hamilton also trails Winnipeg (7-6), B.C. (7-6) and Calgary (5-8) in the crossover scenario for the East Division’s third and final playoff spot.
Frost completed 33-of-50 passes for 340 yards with three touchdowns and four interceptions in his third start of the season (1-2). The Ticats also lost defensive back Jamal Peters (head).
Hamilton fell to 2-8 without starter Bo Levi Mitchell, who suffered a serious ankle injury July 5. Frost, Canadian Tre Ford and Jake Dolegala have all started games since then.
Montreal was 7-0 last year in games Alexander started but 3-8 when he was out with a nagging hamstring ailment. The Als finished second in the East behind Hamilton, then defeated the Ticats 19-16 in the division final before losing 25-17 to Saskatchewan in the Grey Cup.
Caleb Evans’ two-yard TD run at 1:40 of the fourth pushed Montreal’s lead to 34-3. Frost’s 33-yard TD strike to Kiondre Smith at 4:48 cut the Als’ advantage to 34-9 as the two-point convert was unsuccessful.
Frost threw a three-yard TD pass to Kurleigh Gittens Jr. at 9:46 then found Kenny Lawler for the two-point convert. Frost made it a nine-point game with an 18-yard TD pass to Keric Wheatfall at 13:01 and finding Smith for the two-point convert.
Hamilton regained possession at its 20-yard line with 1:19 remaining before Green’s interception cemented the Montreal win.
“They didn’t quit, they kept fighting, they kept playing hard but the score flattered us,” Hamilton head coach Scott Milanovich said matter of factly. “I thought we got whipped for three quarters.
“We made it something of a game there in the fourth quarter, which I appreciate, but I thought they handled us for most of the game there.”
The Canadian Football Hall of Fame’s 2026 class was honoured at halftime. The inductees included former players Brandon Banks, Sean Millington, Charleston Hughes, Calvin Tiggle and Jim Evenson and builder Frank (Pop) Ivy, the former Edmonton head coach.
Evenson and Ivy were enshrined posthumously.
Donny Ventrelli, Nate Beauchemin and Tyson Philpot had Montreal’s other touchdowns. Maltos Diaz kicked four converts and three field goals.
Marc Liegghio had a field goal for Hamilton.
Liegghio’s 13-yard field goal to end the second quarter cut Montreal’s halftime lead to 24-3. It followed Alexander’s 12-yard TD strike to Philpot at 13:54.
Beauchemin’s 57-yard fumble return boosted Montreal’s advantage to 17-0. Alouettes linebacker Geoffrey Cantin-Arku forced Dolegala to fumble on third-and-inches as Beauchemin picked up the loose ball and scored at 5:43.
Maltos Diaz’s 49-yard boot to end the first put Montreal ahead 10-0. Alexander opened the scoring with a 10-yard TD pass to Ventrelli, the Alouettes’ starting right guard, at 10:05.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 18, 2026.
TORONTO – Kelsey Mitchell scored 33 points to set a WNBA single-season scoring record, and Caitlin Clark added 28 points with 14 assists to lead the Indiana Fever to a 103-85 win against the Toronto Tempo on Friday.
Mitchell finished the game with 1,034 points, passing A’ja Wilson’s 1,021 set in 2024 for the Las Vegas Aces.
The Fever (27-14) won its third straight and eighth in 10 outings, while Toronto (11-30) has lost five in a row and 17 of its last 18.
Laura Juskaite led the Tempo with 22 points, followed by rookie Kiki Rice’s 18. Toronto Raptors guard Immanuel Quickley was among the crowd at Coca-Cola Coliseum.
A Juskaite layup gave the Tempo a 57-55 lead early in the third quarter. But the Fever recovered for a 79-73 advantage after three quarters.
A poor evening at the free-throw line (19 for 30) cost the home side.
Clark and Aliyah Boston represented the United States in its fifth straight FIBA World Cup title in Berlin, Germany, last weekend.
The Fever led 25-19 after the first quarter. The Tempo pulled to within 53-50 with a 14-1 run in the final 2:48 of the first half.
Takeaways
Tempo: The home side was without its top offensive players Brittney Sykes (left foot) and Marina Mabrey (right adductor).
Fever: Boston was held to eight points, well below her season average of 16.9.
Key moment
A Mitchell 22-foot jumper with 3:22 remaining put the game out of reach.
Key stat
Clark recorded her 14th double-double of the season and 33rd of her career.
Up next
Tempo: Home finale against the New York Liberty on Sunday.
Fever: Host the Washington Mystics on Sunday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 18, 2026.
The long-running battle about a popular boardwalk took another turn today. The Hotel Eldorado is blocking public access to the boardwalk, which led the City of Kelowna to announce it will begin expropriation. But as Klaudia Van Emmerik tells us, a judge has put a temporary halt on the city's plan.
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has temporarily halted the City of Kelowna’s plans to expropriate a portion of the waterfront boardwalk in front of the Hotel Eldorado and Manteo Resort.
Justice Warren Milman granted Argus Properties an injunction Friday, preventing the city from advancing its expropriation process while a legal challenge brought by Argus moves through the courts.
The case is the latest development in a years-long dispute over public access to the waterfront walkway.
While the land is privately owned, a decades-old agreement gives the city a legal right of way for public access.
The hotel first closed the walkway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although a subsequent court ruling upheld the public’s right to use the walkway, access has been restricted or closed at various points since then.
In July 2025, the city closed the boardwalk for repairs after identifying deterioration in portions of the structure.
The city has said it encountered difficulties accessing the area to carry out maintenance, while Argus has disputed the City’s handling of the issue.
In July 2026, Kelowna council authorized the city to begin the process of expropriating the section of the boardwalk.
The City said the goal was to secure long-term public access and restore an important connection along the waterfront.
In a statement Friday, the city said public access had been restricted for several years and that staff had worked extensively with hotel ownership to find a mutually agreeable solution.
“Unfortunately, those discussions did not result in a resolution,” the City said, adding that expropriation was the only remaining option to re-establish public access.
The city said it could not comment further because the matter is now before the courts.
Argus filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court challenging the city’s expropriation efforts.
In a news release Friday, Argus said it had made repeated efforts to engage with city council and senior staff since the July 2025 closure.
The company accused senior city staff of pursuing costly litigation and what it described as an “abusive use of expropriation powers,” saying the process had taken place behind closed doors without meaningful input from the hotel.
Argus also disputes the City’s assertion that all other options have been exhausted.
The company says mediation or arbitration remain possible avenues for resolving the dispute and has offered to discuss issues including safety, security, public washroom access, liability and maintenance responsibilities.
RELATED: A Saskatoon Christian school’s former principal Duff Friesen has begun his second trial for assault with a weapon at then Christian Centre Academy, now Valour Academy.
A jury has found former Saskatoon Christian school principal Duff Arthur Friesen guilty on three counts of assault with a weapon involving former students and not guilty on two others.
The jury found the offences in the three counts occurred between September 1997 and June 2007 and that Friesen intentionally applied force with a weapon to the victims without their consent.
Defence lawyer Daniel Mol told jurors Thursday it would be “unsafe” to convict his client based on the accounts of the five witnesses, arguing some memories may have been influenced by people outside the case, including through a separate class-action lawsuit launched by former students against the school.
Judge Daryl Labach reviewed the evidence and the students’ testimony with jurors before they began deliberations.
The five former students testified about the physical and emotional toll of being struck with a paddle by Friesen at what was then known as Christian Centre Academy, now known as Valour Academy.
Labach noted the school’s policy of physically punishing students and heard testimony that the paddles used for discipline were handmade by a member of the church.
He noted testimony that students were paddled for missing punctuation or misspelling words in their schoolwork.
Labach also relayed testimony from a former student who said he did not view spanking by his parents as abusive, but considered Friesen’s actions abusive because of the severity of the blows.
Several past coworkers of Friesen testified in support of Friesen, including former administrative assistant Louis Brunelle.
Brunelle testified the school’s discipline policy included three swats with a paddle.
He identified himself in a 1997 Maclean’s magazine article entered as evidence, in which he was photographed holding a paddle that victims testified was likely used on them.
Brunelle also testified that he is named as a defendant in a lawsuit for systemic abuse involving the school and the associated church, Christian Centre Ministries, now known as Mile Two.
The 2022 lawsuit is continuing this year after the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal overturned an abuse-of-process ruling by the Court of King’s Bench in Saskatoon.
Friesen has now been convicted of four counts of assaulting students with a weapon during his time at the school, including one count from another trial less than a year ago.
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Coalition Avenir Québec Leader Christine Fréchette changed her schedule to meet Montreal’s mayor on Friday, as the discovery of a one-year-old child at a homeless encampment continued to send waves through the provincial election campaign.
Fréchette announced a list of promises aimed at municipalities ahead of the meeting with Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada, including the creation of a $250-million emergency fund for homelessness.
The Coalition Avenir Québec leader said that the Sept. 11 discovery of a young child in the Montreal’s Notre-Dame St. encampment was heartbreaking to her as a mother. “We can’t accept that, that’s not Quebec,” Fréchette said.
Montreal police have said an investigation is underway after officers located a woman and the child at the encampment in the city’s east end. They said the child’s health and safety were not at risk.
Martinez Ferrada described the infant’s presence in the camp as a wake-up call and has said she’ll take action if the province won’t.
Late Friday, Fréchette told reporters after the meeting at Montreal City Hall that she promised to work with the mayor on issues such as transitional housing and mental health if her party forms government after Oct. 5. She also called for better co-ordination between different levels of government as well as community organizations and the private sector in order to address homelessness.
When asked if she’d reassured the mayor, she said “I think so.” Martinez Ferrada did not address reporters.
The news of the infant in the camp also prompted Fréchette’s opponents to criticize her government’s record and to weigh in on how to address homelessness. All five leaders spoke Friday in Quebec City at a meeting organized by Quebec’s union of municipalities, where they pitched their plans to reduce the number of people who are unhoused and addressed other issues facing cities, such as infrastructure and public transit funding.
Liberal Leader Charles Milliard said he would invest an additional $60 million per year in an effort to reduce homelessness to zero.
Both Québec solidaire and the Parti Québécois have said they would name a homelessness superminister if elected, with PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon promising to take on the role himself.
St-Pierre Plamondon said Friday that a government led by him would invest $1 billion in the fight against homelessness, with a focus on social and supportive housing and homelessness prevention.
“When we look at what countries that have succeeded have done, they gave a vision, they mobilized all the actors, they based their social intervention on housing,” he said.
Québec solidaire co-spokesperson Ruba Ghazal had proposed the superminister post back in August. She said the minister would have significant power and a large budget, and would work closely with herself as premier.
Conservative Leader Éric Duhaime has proposed hiring 100 more doctors to work in the community, as well as more social workers and more stable funding for community organizations.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 18, 2026.
— With files from Thomas Laberge and Patrice Bergeron in Quebec City
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