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Alberta's Bottcher remains unbeaten at Brier with win over Scoffin
REGINA - Alberta's Brendan Bottcher improved to 2-0 at the Canadian men's curling championship with an 8-3 win over Yukon's Thomas Scoffin on Sunday morning. Scoffin made it a 2-2 game in the fourth e...
Mar 03, 2024
Canada's Grondin earns second silver of weekend in World Cup snowboard cross
SIERRA NEVADA, Spain - Canada's Eliot Grondin has won his second silver medal in as many days in World Cup men's snowboard cross action. The Sainte-Marie, Que., native is now up to seven World Cup med...
Mar 03, 2024
Inaccurate data on forest fuels may stoke B.C. wildfires, study finds
VANCOUVER - Wildfire fighting and forest management decisions are potentially being hampered by inaccurate government data that misrepresents forest fuel loads in British Columbia's Interior, a new st...
Mar 03, 2024
Long time between Briers, Newfoundland and Labrador lead back in it 35 years later
REGINA - Alex Smith is back in the Canadian men's curling championship 35 years after his last appearance in Saskatoon in 1989. Newfoundland and Labrador's lead at the Montana's Brier in Regina was a ...
Mar 03, 2024
Lawmakers elect Shehbaz Sharif as Pakistan's new premier. Protests in parliament greet appointment
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Lawmakers in Pakistan's National Assembly elected Sunday Shehbaz Sharif as the country's new prime minister for the second time as allies of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan in pa...
Mar 03, 2024
AI has come for music. So far, there's a Great Big Sea between people and algorithms
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The production is slick, the drums are on point, and the vocals sound great, but a titan of Newfoundland and Labrador's music scene hears something off about "It Could Be Worse" and...
Mar 03, 2024
NHL roundup: Draisaitl scores 30th goal as Oilers clip Kraken 2-1
SEATTLE (AP) - Leon Draisaitl scored his 30th goal of the season off the league-leading 73rd assist from Connor McDavid, Brett Kulak scored early in the third period, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the ...
Mar 02, 2024
Sharangovich shines as Flames rally to burn Penguins 4-3
CALGARY - Yegor Sharangovich scored twice, including the game-winner with 50 seconds left in the third period, as the Calgary Flames rallied from a two-goal, third-period deficit on Saturday for a rou...
Mar 02, 2024
Plane believed to be carrying Norway's king departs Malaysia, a day after he received a pacemaker
LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) - An airplane believed to be carrying Norway's King Harald departed Malaysia on Sunday, a day after he was implanted with a pacemaker. Europe's oldest reigning monarch was hosp...
Mar 02, 2024
Martinez breakaway goal lifts CF Montreal over FC Dallas 2-1
FRISCO, Texas (AP) - Josef Martinez scored on a breakaway in the 60th minute, lifting CF Montreal to a 2-1 victory over FC Dallas on Saturday night, spoiling the Major League Soccer debut of celebrate...
Mar 02, 2024