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CP NewsAlert: Canada’s Maude Charron wins silver in weightlifting at Paris Games
By The Canadian Press on August 8th, 2024
PARIS – Canada’s Maude Charron has won a silver medal in the women’s 59-kilogram weightlifting event at the Paris Olympics. More to come... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Top court nixes Jordan Peterson’s appeal of professional college’s remedial orders
By The Canadian Press on August 8th, 2024
OTTAWA – Canada’s top court has closed the door on Jordan Peterson’s legal fight against an order that he enter a remedial coaching program. The author and University of Toronto professor has not had an active clinical practice since 2017 but remains a member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario. In 2022, the professional ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Toronto’s new WNBA franchise turns to fans for help in creating team’s name, identity
By Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press on August 8th, 2024
Toronto’s new WNBA team wants your help. The expansion franchise has issued a “call for inspiration,” asking fans from across Canada to “share ideas, hopes and suggestions” for everything from the team’s name to its colours and identity. “We don’t want to limit people,” team president Teresa Resch said in an interview. “Instead of just ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadians split on FIFA’s Olympics penalty for soccer drone spying, new poll says
By Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press on August 8th, 2024
OTTAWA – Most Canadians are not exactly outraged by the punishment meted out to the Canadian women’s soccer team over its Olympic drone spying scandal, according to the results of a new poll released Thursday. Seventy per cent of the respondents to a Leger poll on the Paris Olympic Games said they were either very ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pumas eliminate Whitecaps from Leagues Cup with 2-0 win in Vancouver
By Jim Morris, The Canadian Press on August 7th, 2024
VANCOUVER – Pumas UNAM forward Cesar Huerta scored in the first half then helped set up another goal in the second, leading the Mexican club to a 2-0 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps in Leagues Cup knockout-round play Wednesday. The loss eliminated Vancouver from the Leagues Cup after the team won both of its matches ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sports scoreboard for Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024
By The Canadian Press on August 7th, 2024
Wednesday’s Scoreboard MLB American League Baltimore 7 Toronto 3 Houston 6 Texas 4 Oakland 3 Chicago White Sox 2 New York Yankees 5 L.A. Angels 2, game 1 L.A. Angels 8 New York Yankees 2, game 2 Kansas City 8 Boston 4 Detroit 6 Seattle 2 National League San Francisco 7 Washington 4 Miami 6 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Blue Jays fall to Orioles 7-3 as Guerrero extends hit streak to 19 games
By Tim Wharnsby, The Canadian Press on August 7th, 2024
TORONTO – Anthony Santander’s two homers and Jackson Holliday’s monster two-run shot in the seventh inning pushed the Baltimore Orioles to a 7-3 comeback win against the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday. Santander smacked a two-run homer in the first inning and a solo shot to begin a three-run eighth off reliever Ryan Yarbrough as ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Auger-Aliassime bounced in Montreal NBO singles opener; Shapovalov, Pospisil also out
By Elias Grigoriadis, The Canadian Press on August 7th, 2024
MONTREAL – It has been a difficult National Bank Open for Canadian men as both Felix Auger-Aliassime, Vasek Pospisil and Denis Shapovalov were eliminated from the men’s singles tournament at IGA Stadium on Wednesday. After placing fourth in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, Auger-Aliassime was upset in the opening round of the Montreal NBO at ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s Leylah Fernandez into second round at NBO; Marina Stakusic also advances
By Joshua Clipperton, The Canadian Press on August 7th, 2024
TORONTO – Leylah Fernandez handled a curveball in advancing to the second round of the National Bank Open. The Laval, Que., product defeated Japan’s Nao Hibino 6-3, 5-7, 6-1 to move on at Canada’s national tennis championship Wednesday. Fernandez, the tournament’s 15th seed, was originally supposed to face China’s Zhang Shuai, but the 63rd-ranked player ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Auger-Aliassime bounced in Montreal singles opener; Shapovalov, Pospisil also out
By The Canadian Press on August 7th, 2024
MONTREAL – Fans at IGA Stadium gave Felix Auger-Aliassime a lengthy standing ovation before his opening singles match in the National Bank Open on Wednesday. It’s a good thing, because Auger-Aliassime, who finished fourth at the Paris Olympics and won bronze in mixed doubles with Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa, was gone 68 minutes later. Flavio ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Happy as punch,’ premiers reflect on Walz as Democrat running-mate pick
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press on August 7th, 2024
WASHINGTON – Premiers that share a border with Minnesota say Tim Walz understands America’s important cultural and trade relationship with Canada, after the governor was chosen as U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris’ running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket. “I was happy as punch,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said of Walz’s candidacy during a news conference ... Read More »
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