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TORONTO – The 2024 Grey Cup will be broadcast south of the border by CBS Sports Network.

The CFL’s championship game will be held Nov. 17 at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver.

CBS Sports Network is an American digital cable and satellite television network. It is owned by the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global.

CBS Sports Network was scheduled to carry 34 regular-season CFL games in 2024. Included were the season kickoff, the league’s Labour Day matchups.

The American broacaster will carry the Ottawa Redblacks-Montreal Alouettes contest Monday afternoon.

Its final regular-season broadcast before the Grey Cup will be the Calgary Stampeders visiting the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Oct. 18.

“We couldn’t be more thrilled to have the biggest game of the season on CBS Sports Network,” CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie said in a statement. “Since the day we announced this partnership, our American fans have wanted nothing more than to see the Grey Cup on TV.

“And now, with this momentous announcement, the countdown begins to the sights, surprises and spectacle that we have in store for Vancouver.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 10, 2024.

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SHANGHAI (AP) — No. 2-ranked Carlos Alcaraz’s 12-match winning streak was ended by Tomas Machac 7-6 (5), 7-5 in the Shanghai Masters quarterfinals on Thursday.

It was No. 33 Machac’s third tour-level quarterfinal, and the Czech player proved more than a match for the four-time major-winning Spaniard as he earned his second win over a top-five opponent this year in two hours.

Machac will play top-ranked Jannik Sinner in the semifinals.

“I knew that the level of my tennis would be great because I am playing the best right now, for sure,” Machac said. “I beat Tommy Paul (in my) last match with an unbelievable performance. With these types of players, I have to play this level otherwise it’s 6-2, 6-3 (and) you go home, there is no other option.

Alcaraz, who won the China Open in a thriller against Sinner last week, learned of Rafael Nadal’s retirement announcement shortly before going on court but said the news about his idol hadn’t affected his match.

“It is a really difficult thing, really difficult news for everybody, and even tougher for me,” Alcaraz said. “He has been my idol since I start playing tennis. I look up to him. Proudly, thanks to him, I really wanted to become a professional tennis player. Losing him, in a certain way, is going to be difficult for us, so I will try to enjoy as much as I can when he’s going to play.

“But we are going to play in Saudi Arabia, and then Davis Cup, so I’m going to try to enjoy as much as I can the time with him. But, yeah, it is a shame for tennis and for me.”

Sinner advanced to his fifth ATP Masters semifinal of the season when the Italian swept aside fifth-ranked Daniil Medvedev in straight sets.

Sinner started strongly and only faced one break point in his 6-1, 6-4 masterclass over the Russian, who needed treatment on his shoulder from the physio during the second set.

“I’m very happy how I handled today and this match,” Sinner said. “It felt like he had a bit of shoulder pain and couldn’t hit his forehand as well as he wished to. Hopefully, he can recover as fast as possible, but from my side it was a great match, a great battle, and let’s see what I can do now in the semifinals.”

With Thursday’s win, the two-time major winner has leveled his head-to-head series against Medvedev at 7-7, but has won seven of the last eight meetings with the Russian.

Wuhan Open

Second-ranked Aryna Sabalenka rallied from a set down to beat No. 35 Yulia Putintseva 1-6, 6-4, 6-0 to maintain her undefeated record at the Wuhan Open and rise to the top of the WTA rankings.

Thursday’s win for the Belarussian allowed her to regain top spot in the rankings from Iga Swiatek, who is absent from the women’s Asian swing citing personal reasons and fatigue.

Sabalenka, the U.S. Open champion, is 14-0 in Wuhan after winning the title on her first appearance in 2018 and defending her crown in 2019 before the tournament took a five-year hiatus from the calendar due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.

The three-time major winner started slowly but roared to life during the second set and carried that momentum through the decider to clinch a quarterfinal spot against Beatriz Haddad-Maia or Magdalena Frech.

Sabalenka finished with 44 winners to 33 unforced errors, while holding Putintseva to 13 winners and 14 unforced errors.

Coco Gauff advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-1 rout of 17th-ranked Marta Kostyuk.

It was the fourth-ranked Gauff’s eighth consecutive win after the American won the China Open last week which moved her back into the top five in the rankings.

Gauff fired two aces and broke the Ukrainian’s serve five times — for the loss of one of her own — as she clinched a one-sided match and extended her lead in their head-to-head series to 3-1.

Next for Gauff is No. 45-ranked Magda Linette, who continued her impressive form this week by beating eighth-seeded Daria Kasatkina 6-2, 6-3.

“She’s a tough opponent,” Gauff said of Linette. “We haven’t played since (the U.S. Open in 2021). I really don’t know what to expect. But just from watching her play, she’s been playing a great couple of matches here in Wuhan.

“I expect it to be a tough match. She’s not an easy opponent.”

Gauff will be the only American left in the draw after third-ranked Jessica Pegula and tour rookie Hailey Baptiste lost.

Pegula, the U.S. Open finalist, had a tough afternoon against the 51st-ranked Wang Xinyu of China, who was dominant on serve throughout and clinched a 6-3, 7-5 win.

Wang had won their only previous meeting in three sets in the second round at Wimbledon and got off to a fast start here by breaking Pegula twice in the opening set to take the lead.

After her first win over a top-10 player in the previous round, Baptiste was routed by Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-1, 6-1.

Paris Olympics gold medalist Zheng Qinwen rallied to beat Leylah Fernandez 5-7, 6-3, 6-0 and sixth-ranked Jasmine Paolini defeated Erika Andreeva 6-3, 6-2.

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As a parent, you want your child to spread their wings and fly, not crash down to reality when they first enter the job market.

But how do you help your young person soar when so many other first-time job-seekers in 2024 are landing with a thud?

It’s notan easytime to be a teen or young adult in the job market. The unemployment rate nationally for those aged 15-to-24 years old hit 14.5 per cent in August, according to Statistics Canada. Excluding the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, that’s the highest youth unemployment rate this country has seen since February 2012.

Joblessness has been ticking up gradually in Canada for all ages of workers since mid-2022 as the economy and labour market have cooled. But for young people, the unemployment rate sits at more than double the 6.6 per cent Statistics Canada reported for the general working-age population in August.

Teens and young adults — with their relative lack of experience and tendency to work in more precarious, minimum-wage jobs — are often hit first and hardest by any downturn in the labour market, said Timothy Lang, president and CEO of Youth Employment Services YES in Toronto.

“We know that there’s a lot of people struggling,” Lang said.

“We are seeing a large increase in young people seeking our help. We also see parents.”

Parents know that a first job can be not just a formative rite of passage, but also an important initial building block toward a life-long career. That’s why many parents want to do what they can to help their children tackle the job market.

But Lang said no matter how long your child has been looking for a job, or how frustrated they might be, it’s important to not be a helicopter parent. That means resisting the urge to send in applications on behalf of your children, show up to the interview with your teen, or call employers directly to find out why your child didn’t get the job.

“Some parents may be well-intentioned, but they don’t realize they’re actually doing harm when they’re not giving their child some independence or letting that young person grow up,” he said.

Parents can help and guide in other ways, such as offering resume-writing advice, Lang said. It’s also OK to tap your own network to see if anyone you know might be hiring.

“I know some parents feel self-conscious doing that for their own child, but any sort of networking is always helpful because there can be jobs available that just aren’t advertised,” Lang said.

“And by tapping that network and getting the young person to understand what you’re doing, they actually get better at the concept of networking themselves.”

Since young job-seekers are still in the process of growing up, they may lack confidence in face-to-face settings such as interviews, said Bob Williams, general manager of Calaway Park, a Calgary amusement park that each year hires close to 800 young workers.

They also may not be familiar with the norms of the work world, he added. That’s where parents can be a huge help, simply by reinforcing the basics.

“Just things like, ‘Make eye contact.’ Professional attire helps. Punctuality,” Williams said.

Calgary mom Dalyce Semko said she coached her then-16-year-old daughter Eva through a series of mock interviews when Eva was in the process of searching for her first job.

“She wasn’t even very comfortable at that time just going out there and talking to people, and that’s something that I think was actually quite common among kids who were at home a lot during COVID — their social skills just didn’t develop as much,” Semko said.

“So we got out a list of questions that interviewers might like to ask, and practised a lot of Q and A.”

Lang said that’s a great idea. He said many young people lack confidence when it comes to selling themselves, or don’t realize that they have marketable skills they’ve developed from more casual work experiences like babysitting or lawn-mowing.

“A lot of young people have never even talked about themselves. They feel self-conscious. They think, ‘Oh, I don’t want to brag about myself,'” Lang said.

“And so they’ve got to learn that ‘No, this is the one time you’ve got to.'”

Semko said her daughter did land a job at an Italian restaurant, and still has that job two years later. She said she remembers the day her daughter applied for the position, and all of her interview coaching and preparation paid off.

“I drove her there, and I said, ‘Ok, get out. We’ve practised this a lot. You can go. You can drop off your resume. You can do it,'” Semko recalls, adding she waited in the vehicle while Eva nervously went inside.

“And then she came back to the car and she was just absolutely shaking and excited and laughing. She was like, ‘I can’t believe I did it!’ It was definitely just a thrilling, thrilling challenge for her to take that on and go and apply on her own like that.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 10, 2024.