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Braathen, the skier and fashion designer, wins Alta Badia GS
LA VILLA, Italy (AP) - Lucas Braathen might be just the type of personality that skiing needs to join Marco Odermatt among the younger generation taking over the sport. The 22-year-old Norwegian with ...
Dec 18, 2022
Shiffrin takes win No. 77 to move within 5 of Vonn's record
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) - Mikaela Shiffrin's first speed race weekend of the women's World Cup season went so well, she believes it might make her even faster in her core technical events, too. T...
Dec 18, 2022
Canadian swimmer Maggie Mac Neil sets world record at short course worlds
MELBOURNE, Australia - Canada's Maggie Mac Neil closed out the FINA World Swimming Championships in style on Sunday by setting a world record in the women's 100-metre butterfly. Mac Neil, from London,...
Dec 18, 2022
Top Stories of 2022: The most viewed & viral stories of the year
NANAIMO - Amazing animal stories, heartwarming rescues, and an April fools joke turned into some of our top viral stories of 2022.Viral Animals In May, a warning about a rare bacterial infection affec...
Dec 18, 2022
Messi wins World Cup, Argentina beats France on penalties
LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) - Lionel Messi finally won the biggest prize in soccer as Argentina beat France 4-2 in a penalty shootout Sunday to claim a third World Cup title despite Kylian Mbapp scoring the fi...
Dec 18, 2022
Shane Wright to serve as Canadian captain at upcoming world juniors
ST. STEPHEN, N.B. - Forward Shane Wright will serve as Canadian captain at the upcoming IIHF World Junior Championship. Hockey Canada issued a news release Sunday saying Ethan Del Mastro, Nathan Gauch...
Dec 18, 2022
'One side or the other': Coutts, Alta. still a village divided after convoy blockade
COUTTS, Alta. - The sound of blaring horns that echoed through this village 10 months ago has been replaced by the steady hum of semi-trailer trucks filing through the border crossing between Alberta ...
Dec 18, 2022
'Hallowed space': Divers pull 275 artifacts from 2022 excavation of Franklin ship
Eleven metres below the surface of the Northwest Passage, deep within the wreck of one of Capt. John Franklin's doomed ships, something caught the eye of diver Ryan Harris. Harris was in the middle of...
Dec 18, 2022
'A labour of love:' new bottlecap mural driving home important message at Departure Bay elementary
NANAIMO - A project nearly a decade in the making is finally finished.A new mural made entirely of bottle caps is now hanging in the library of Departure Bay Elementary Eco-School in Nanaimo, the resu...
Dec 18, 2022
Pierre Poilievre thinks he can win over new Canadians. Here's how he plans to do it.
OTTAWA - A young Pierre Poilievre sits in front of a room of Conservative faithful and explains their party's strategy for winning a majority mandate. That hasn't happened yet. It's 2009 and while the...
Dec 18, 2022