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Canadian rugby sevens women move into Cup semifinals after two pool wins in Singapore
SINGAPORE - Fancy Bermudez scored two tries Saturday to help Canada defeat the U.S. 31-21 and move into the Cup semifinals at the HSBC SVNS Singapore. The Canadian women, who came into the tournament ...
Apr 05, 2025

Canadian surfer finishes ninth in El Salvador after close round-of-16 battle
LA LIBERTAD - Canadian Erin Brooks finished ninth at the Surf City El Salvador Pro on Saturday after being edged out by American Bella Kenworthy in a tight round-of-16 battle. It was a battle of teena...
Apr 05, 2025

Swiss-born midfielder Maxime Dominguez happy to trade Rio de Janeiro for Toronto
After disappointment in Brazil, Maxime Dominguez hopes to have found a home with Toronto FC. The Swiss-born midfielder arrives in MLS on a season-long loan from Brazil's Vasco da Gama with a purchase ...
Apr 05, 2025

Five years without answers for family of Canadian businessman held in Chinese jail
VANCOUVER - Wang Yan vividly recalls the last time she heard her husband's voice, more than five years ago. It was Dec. 13, 2019, and Canadian citizen Li Yonghui had gone to a public square in Shijiaz...
Apr 05, 2025

'We are not the gods': Fire-torn Jasper prepares for diminished summer tourism season
JASPER, ALTA. - Every summer for 61 years, tourists have piled onto Jasper's SkyTram to see the boomerang-shaped town nestled inside the sprawling Rocky Mountains. It'll happen again this summer, but ...
Apr 05, 2025

Thomas Muller to leave Bayern Munich after this season
MUNICH (AP) - Thomas Muller will leave Bayern Munich this summer after a 25-year career at the German club. The 35-year-old Muller said Saturday, in a joint announcement with Bayern, that his "incredi...
Apr 05, 2025

Caught in the crossfire: Michigan concerned over automobile tariffs targeting Canada
DETROIT - Glenn Stevens Jr. can look out his office window in downtown Detroit and see Canada. The view encapsulates historic automobile achievement between two countries despite a flowing river and i...
Apr 05, 2025

Vancouver voters look to fill two council seats in municipal byelection
VANCOUVER - Voters in Vancouver are heading to the polls today - but not for the federal election that's still weeks away from its conclusion. Vancouverites will instead cast their ballots in the muni...
Apr 05, 2025

Federal leaders set to campaign across the country today
OTTAWA - Federal party leaders are starting the second full weekend of the federal election campaign at opposite ends of the country. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in B.C. while NDP Leader J...
Apr 05, 2025

Senate GOP approves framework for Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts after all-night session
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework, hurling past a hard line of De...
Apr 04, 2025