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CFL Beat: Your 2025 Season Wrap-Up

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Another season, another end-of-year wrapup. Once again, the Grey Cup surprised and entertained us all, in the best way possible! And best of all, my end-of-year recap was finished before baby's arrival. So glad to be so punctual. Before the recap, we'll lead off with the final round of league

CFL Beat: Playoffs – Grey Cup

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It's the final weekend of CFL action. I'll miss Canadian football greatly when it's done, of course - but I have so much to do between now and May 2026 with this whole new baby thing going on that I feel like I'm barely going to have time to catch

CFL Beat: Playoffs – Division Finals

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We're down to the final three games of the 2025 CFL season - I certainly hope we have some entertainment left here. I With just over a week until baby's expected due date, I would just like a final chance to get my report cards done and final CFL Beats

CFL Beat: Playoffs – Division Semifinals

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We made it! The playoffs are here! It's one of my favourite times of year for football; with most of my backyard leaves down relatively early this year, I should have more time and space to watch football than I have in years previous. Now if only I can deal

CFL Beat: Week 21

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What a treat it is when the final week of the regular season still results in meaningful, significant football to be played. In this case, we still have several important playoff races to settle! In the East, Hamilton and Montreal are tied with identical 10-7 records, with Hamilton currently holding

CFL Beat: Week 20

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In the second-last week of the season, the West playoff race remains wide open, with just one team having clinched a playoff spot and all four others remaining eligible in the race even now. With the ineptitude of Ottawa and Toronto in the East Division this year, this also opens

CFL Beat: Week 19

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We're headed into the Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend - huzzah for earlier days off! I am looking forward to hopefully having the chance to properly celebrate both Thanksgiving holidays this year, as I believe my brief parental leave should be taking place over the week that American Thanksgiving is happening

CFL Beat: Week 18

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A strange juxtaposition of summer weather and colourful leaves for me this week. I am not used to sweating profusely while raking leaves - something's got to give here. If this is indeed to be one of the final hurrahs of warm weather for the year, it seems only right

CFL Beat: Week 17

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So I had a whole slew of different people message me following the CFL's press conference on Monday afternoon earlier this week, in which they announced a gigantic litany of rule changes that will be gradually phased in over the next few seasons. Specifically, they wanted to know if I