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Lindsey Vonn finishes 24th in downhill in her first race since announcing her return at age 40
COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) - Lindsey Vonn finished 24th in a lower-level FIS downhill race on Saturday as she returned from retirement to compete for the first time in nearly six years. The 40-year-o...
Dec 07, 2024

Notre Dame reopens its doors to Macron and other world leaders in a rare symbol of unity
PARIS (AP) - Howling winds couldn't stop Notre Dame's heart from beating again. With three resounding knocks on its doors by Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich, wielding a staff carved from fire-scorched...
Dec 07, 2024

Quebec Conservative Party leader hospitalized with heart problem
MONTREAL - Quebec Conservative Party leader ric Duhaime has been hospitalized with a heart problem. Duhaime says he suffered heart trouble Friday night and his spouse immediately brought him to hospit...
Dec 07, 2024

Canada's Danae Blais claims World Cup short track gold in Beijing
BEIJING - Canadian short track speedskater Danae Blais captured her first World Cup gold medal in an individual distance Saturday when she was first in the women's 1,000 metres. The 25-year-old from C...
Dec 07, 2024

Trump receives a Paris welcome full of presidential pomp from France's Macron
PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Donald Trump to Paris on Saturday with a full a dose of presidential pomp as the two men resumed the relationship they established during Trump's...
Dec 07, 2024

Beaten by Australia, Canadian women miss out on semifinals at Cape Town Sevens
CAPE TOWN - Australia, fresh off a fifth straight title in Dubai, downed Canada 26-10 in pool play at the Cape Town Sevens on Saturday to advance to the semifinals. The unbeaten Australian women will ...
Dec 07, 2024

Syrian opposition activists say insurgents have reached the suburbs of Damascus
BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian insurgents have reached the suburbs of Damascus as part of a rapidly moving offensive that has seen them take over some of Syria's largest cities, opposition activists and a rebel...
Dec 07, 2024

Apiaries abuzz over ruling against widening cross-border trade in live honeybees
OTTAWA - The dismissal of a class-action lawsuit over rules governing the cross-border live bee trade is casting a spotlight on political division within Canada's beekeeping community. A federal judge...
Dec 07, 2024

Not just for your parents: Facebook's buy-and-sell platform drawing back millennials
HALIFAX - A historic 400-kilogram anchor that was dragged up from the ocean floor off Cape St. Mary's in Newfoundland sits propped up against a tree in front of Tyler Stapleton's house. The two-metre-...
Dec 07, 2024

LGBTQ+ refugees languish as Kenyan government blocks Canadians from resettling them
NAIROBI - In a low-income neighbourhood on the outskirts of Nairobi, seven people gather in an air-conditioned home around a dinner table for a Ugandan stew of matoke bananas with peanut sauce. Like m...
Dec 07, 2024