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Canada's Gushue claims Pan Continental men's curling title, downs South Korea 11-3
CALGARY - Canada's Brad Gushue won the first men's Pan Continental Curling Championship on Sunday with an 11-3 win over South Korea's Byeongjin Jeong. Gushue and his team from St. John's, N.L., scored...
Nov 06, 2022
Canada's Ellie Black wins silver in balance beam at gymnastics worlds
LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom - Canada's Ellie Black won a silver medal in the balance beam competition on Sunday at the world gymnastics championships. Black, from Halifax, finished with 13.566 points. J...
Nov 06, 2022
Canadian delegation set to tell COP27 about oceans' role in fighting climate change
Lying in plain sight and lapping against our shores is what scientists describe as an unsung hero that has been quietly absorbing heat and keeping the world's temperatures under control. And over the ...
Nov 06, 2022
Australia downs Fiji to win Hong Kong Sevens, Canadian men finish 10th
HONG KONG - Nathan Lawson's last-minute try gave Australia a 20-17 win over Fiji in the final of the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens on Sunday, ending the Fijians' run of five straight tournament...
Nov 06, 2022
Raptors forward Pascal Siakam will be sidelined with strained adductor muscle
Toronto Raptors forward Pascal Siakam is expected to miss at least two weeks with a strained right adductor muscle, the team said Sunday. Siakam suffered the injury when he slipped during the third qu...
Nov 06, 2022
Bayern says Davies' World Cup for Canada 'not at risk'
MUNICH (AP) - Bayern Munich says Alphonso Davies' injury is not as bad as initially feared and that his participation in the World Cup for Canada is "not at risk." The 22-year-old Davies suffered what...
Nov 06, 2022
It's the democracy, stupid: midterm stakes for Canadians are much the same as in U.S.
WASHINGTON - It's not every day that a Canadian prime minister gets name-checked in a political debate in the United States. But in a hyper-polarized midterm election season, it's not surprising it wo...
Nov 06, 2022
Mystery flag to mark 80th anniversary of disastrous Dieppe raid on Remembrance Day
OTTAWA - Legend has that when Canadian troops stormed ashore under a hail of German gunfire at the French port of Dieppe in August 1942, one of the hundreds who eventually died in the attack was carry...
Nov 06, 2022
Monitors say 6 killed in Syria's shelling of tent settlement
IDLIB, Syria (AP) - Syrian government forces shelled tent settlements housing families displaced by the country's conflict in the rebel-held northwest early Sunday, killing at least six people and wou...
Nov 06, 2022
Tanzania: Small passenger plane crashes into Lake Victoria
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A small passenger plane crashed Sunday morning into Lake Victoria on approach to an airport in Tanzania. Local authorities said 26 of the 43 people on board the Precision Air fli...
Nov 06, 2022