As per the Alouettes official press release, here is their 2011 season schedule:

Montreal, Feb. 18, 2011 - The 2011 CFL schedule was released today and as defending Grey Cup champs, the Montreal Alouettes will open the 2011 season on Thursday June 30 at 7:30 p.m., when the BC Lions will be the visitors at Percival Molson Stadium.

Marc Trestman's team will then be looking for their 105th consecutive sellout at home. The team has been playing in front of full capacity crowds since July 22, 1999. On Sunday, July 24 at 7 p.m., the Saskatchewan Roughriders will be in town for a rematch of last year's Grey Cup that the Als won 21-18.

The Eastern Semi-Final will be held on Sunday Nov. 13 while the Eastern Final will be on Sunday, Nov. 20. The season will end on Sunday Nov. 27 in Vancouver when the 99th Grey Cup will be played at BC Place.

Below is the complete schedule including pre-season play.

The Montreal Juniors’ 4 game winning streak has come to an end, but they did manage a point as they came from behind but came up short in the shootout against the Shawinigan Cataractes Friday night.

There has been some criticism about the Juniors’ inability to play a full 60 minutes, either having to play catch-up hockey, or unnecessarily squandering the lead. This was not the case on this night as the Juniors managed 30 shots on goal and despite the fact that go-to guys Louis Leblanc and Victor Hertzberg are presently in an 8 and 5 game goal scoring slump respectively.

The good news is that the Juniors are relatively healthy with only Louis-Marc Aubry yet to return to the line-up and the Lewiston MAINEiacs and Quebec Remparts next on the agenda. The juniors are 3-0 Vs both teams.

Please read the official Juniors game recap.

The Habs have answered everyone’s call to add some beef to their line-up, to instil fear in the hearts of their opponents… They have called up Ryan White from the Hamilton Bulldogs. 

While many have been clamouring for a trade which would bring the Habs the likes of a Chris Neil or a Trent Hunter, Montreal has gone the same route as how they chose their GM: “do your research, look under every stone, see what’s out there and in the end, the best person was already in their organisation.”

The Montreal Impact announced today the signing of two French players for the 2011 season, midfielder Idriss Ech-Chergui and defender Kevin Hatchi.

In Ech-Chergui, the Impact hope to replace the gap left by the departure of offensive midfielder, Tony Donatelli who joined the San Jose Earthquakes of the MLS and with Hatachi, look to shore up their central D.