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More than 50,000 people attended the event in 2017, where Sung Hyun Park earned a two-shot victory in Ottawa.

Due to COVID-19, the team's first season consisted of a handful of games as part of the CEBL Summer Series held in St. Catharines.

"My client is happy with the settlement, happy to put it behind him, and glad to move forward with his life," says lawyer Charles Desmond.

The move comes after the CFL couldn't solve a number of issues in an effort to try to salvage a season.

"To be able to sign players of James and Ted Chapelhow's calibre shows everyone how appealing our project is," says Ottawa coach Laurent Frayssinous.

The OHL says it hopes to play a 64-game season, four fewer games than usual, despite starting more than two months later than its traditional late September opening date.

Gilmore joins French international halfback Louis Jouffret on the Ottawa roster.

Henderson, who has played a rigorous schedule since turning pro in 2015, has enjoyed the break.

On Friday, the league extended the deadline to this week as it awaited word on government assistance. But it appears both federal and provincial officials also awaiting further certainty from the league regarding its ability to go ahead with an abbreviated 2020 campaign

U Sports cancelled the 2020 Vanier Cup and the two bowl games that served as semifinals because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Canada West, Ontario and Atlantic conferences won't operate a football schedule this fall.