Remote control season heats up

The Sports Beat, Brian Salisbury

It’s Monday night. You settle into your favorite chair and grab for your trusty remote. The TV flickers on. Seems relaxing enough, right? Wrong.

Now that Major League Baseball’s playoffs are in full swing, the NFL is off and running, and the NHL is back on the ice, sports fans around Ottawa are going to be pulling their hair out trying to decide which game to watch. read more

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Volunteer screening brings parents and kids peace of mind

By Lisa Marchitto
When NHL star Sheldon Kennedy announced that he had been sexually abused for nine years by his coach, parents across Canada worried about something like this happening to their child.

“We were fielding 30 to 50 (telephone) calls a day,” says Paddy Bowen, executive director of the Canadian Association of Volunteer Bureaux and Centres (CAVBC), “from concerned parents, the media, people in hockey associations. . .” read more

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