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CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston announced the league's rule changes during a press conference in Toronto last Monday.

Mark Carney has lately taken to framing this country’s political calendar in terms of its football schedule – promising, repeatedly, that the next in a promised series of nation-building projects will be announced before the Grey Cup.

Exactly how many Canadians know that date (Nov. 16, for the record) off the top of their heads is debatable.

Nevertheless, the Prime Minister seems to be leaning into the Canadian Football League as one of this country’s much-needed, all-too-rare cultural differentiators – which is more than can be said, right now, for the people running it.

If ever there were a year for the CFL to play up its Canadian-ness, this would have b

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