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Marielle Thompson's ski cross gold highlights three-medal day for Canada
VEYSONNAZ - Marielle Thompson's ski cross gold highlighted a three-medal day for Canada at a World Cup event on Saturday. Thompson, of Whistler, B.C., beat Germany's Daniela Maier to top the podium in...
Feb 01, 2025

US military conducts airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump's second ter...
Feb 01, 2025

Blue Bombers re-sign two-time All-CFL receiver Dalton Schoen to one-year contract
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers re-signed star receiver Dalton Schoen to a one-year contract on Saturday. The six-foot-one, 210-pound Schoen returns to Winnipeg for a fourth season after being li...
Feb 01, 2025

Auger-Aliassime advances to Montpellier final with straight sets win over De Jong
MONTPELLIER - Montreal's Flix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the final of the Open Occitanie tennis tournament with a 6-4, 7-6 (4) win over Jesper de Jong of the Netherlands on Saturday. Auger-Aliassime,...
Feb 01, 2025

Canadian Jasmine Jasudavicius makes history with win on UFC card in Saudi Arabia
RIYADH - Canadian flyweight Jasmine Jasudavicius extended her winning streak to four fights with an impressive unanimous decision over Brazilian Mayra (Sheetara) Bueno Silva on a UFC Fight Night card ...
Feb 01, 2025

Canadian winger Tajon Buchanan joins Spain's Villarreal on loan from Inter Milan
Canadian international winger Tajon Buchanan has joined Spain's Villarreal CF from Italy's Inter Milan on a season-long loan with an option to make the move permanent. The 25-year-old from Brampton, O...
Feb 01, 2025

Driver in his 20s dead after car crash southeast of Quebec City
MONTREAL - A man in his 20s has died after a car crash in the Chaudire-Appalaches region of Quebec Friday night. Quebec provincial police say they received a call around 9 p.m. Friday about the crash ...
Feb 01, 2025

Mexico's president says all 6 people on medical transport jet were killed
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Six people on board a medical transport jet that crashed in Philadelphia were killed. That is according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. The dead included a child who was re...
Feb 01, 2025

Defence calls client's role in machete attack minimal, not criminal
PRINCE GEORGE - The lawyer for the second man tried after a Prince George motel resident was seriously injured in an August 2022 machete attack said Friday, Jan. 31 there is no evidence his client com...
Feb 01, 2025

18 Pakistani soldiers killed in fighting with separatist rebels in Balochistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani troops fought insurgents who set up roadblocks in the restive northwestern region of Balochistan, leaving 18 paramilitary security forces and 23 rebels dead in some o...
Feb 01, 2025