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MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes announced on Friday that the team had reached an agreement with receiver Alex Charette, who signed a one-year-deal. This marks a return for the 29-year-old who wore the Alouettes jersey in 2015 and 2016 after the team drafted him in 2015 (36 overall). Charette will be in his sixth CFL
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For months we’ve been speculating about what could be with all nine CFL teams. As training camps progressed, the picture became increasingly clear and now like an 8K camera following a QB through the sideline after a touchdown drive, everything is coming into focus. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the starting quarterbacks. All
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TORONTO — The children and families victimized by Canada’s residential schools system will be remembered as the Canadian Football League kicks off its 2021 season this week. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Elks will all acknowledge the tragedy as they host home games Thursday, Friday and Saturday.The on-field officials working
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TORONTO – The Canadian Football League has introduced a policy that will apply to any game cancellations caused by COVID-19 issues. “Our goal is to ensure we have zero game cancellations due to issues caused by an outbreak of COVID-19 within our football operations,” said Randy Ambrosie, Commissioner of the CFL. “While this policy spells
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OTTAWA — The REDBLACKS have signed American receiver Charone Peake. The 28-year-old (six-foot-two, 187 pounds) played his college football at Clemson and was a seventh-round pick of the New York Jets in the 2016 NFL Draft. He was with the Jets until the start of the 2019 season. He was with the the Jacksonville Jaguars
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You think Matt Nichols is pissed off? Doubted, questioned and discarded time and again, do you think the veteran Ottawa REDBLACKS’ quarterback has a scalding cauldron of bitterness in his belly? You think he’s continually seething over the slights, over all the “yeah buts” he’s heard over the years and the ones that have surfaced
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With the end of training camp comes difficult decisions and painful releases, as teams squeeze down their numbers to meet CFL requirements. In these cuts there are many players who both have the talent and deserve a chance to play in the CFL that are let go for any myriad of reasons, ranging from playing
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CFL.ca will be previewing the 2021 season, breaking down special teams, defence and offence for all nine teams as they get set to hit the field. With a bevy of talented receivers at his disposal and an offence that let him thrive in 2019, Vernon Adams Jr. could be poised for a big step forward
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TORONTO — The grind of training camp is winding down, but the news cycle is just getting going. CFL.ca will take you through roster finalization on Friday, but for now get caught up on where teams stand as they end their training camps and get ready for Week 1 of the 2021 season. Jump to team:
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KAMLOOPS — With air quality in Kamloops hampered by forest fires in British Columbia, the BC Lions have elected to wrap up their training camp a couple of days early and will return to their facilities in Surrey. RELATED» Lions’ o-line working to let Reilly, offence thrive» Lions release 18, including QB Will Arndt» Lions release DE
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KAMLOOPS — The BC Lions have released American defensive end Chris Casher. The 27-year-old signed with BC as a free agent in 2020 and signed an extension with the team on Feb. 2, 2021. Casher debuted in the CFL with the Calgary Stampeders in 2019 and had 34 defensive tackles, seven sacks and a forced
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Quarterback Michael Reilly had a very up close and personal look at the struggles the BC Lions’ offensive line experienced in 2019. Reilly took a pounding some nights as the Lions gave up a rib-bruising 58 sacks the last season they played. You could excuse the 36-year-old veteran if he felt some apprehension going into
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TORONTO — The Toronto Argonauts are the latest team to make a wave of cuts ahead of Friday’s 10 p.m. ET deadline for final rosters.  The team has released the following nine players: • Canadian DB Shamar Busby• American WR Jaylen Smith• American WR Craig Rucker• American WR Nyqwan Murray• American RB Kenneth Dixon• American
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EDMONTON — Kevin Brown has been released by the Edmonton Elks. The move was announced Monday afternoon, as the club moves towards Friday’s CFL roster deadline (10 p.m ET)  and the start of the regular season Aug. 7 against the Ottawa REDBLACKS. Brown was a free agent signing back in February of this year after
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HAMILTON — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced Monday the football club has signed American placekicker Jimmy Camacho. Camacho, 25, was a member of the BC Lions roster throughout 2020, joining the team after a stint with the Arizona Rattlers in the Indoor Football League in 2019. Prior to turning pro, the 5-10, 180-pound native of Santa
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OTTAWA — The REDBLACKS have signed national linebacker Frederic Chagnon. The 28-year-old from Montreal was a third-round pick of the BC Lions in 2017. After three seasons with the Lions, Chagnon signed with his hometown Alouettes in 2020, but was released by the team this past week. The REDBLACKS  made a string of other moves
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CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders have signed veteran national running back Calvin McCarty. Born in Muskogee, Okla., and raised in British Columbia, McCarty has played more than 200 career games in the Canadian Football League and was a member of Edmonton’s Grey Cup-championship team in 2015. McCarty, 36, had announced his retirement from the CFL
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