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[published_date] CBC/Radio-Canada will broadcast the next four Canada Games, beginning with this summer's in St. John's, N.L., the corporation announced on Thursday. This long-term commitment runs from 2025 through to 2031, ensuring audiences across Canada will have more access than ever before to this uniquely Canadian multi-sport event for elite young athletes, and to the stories…

[published_date] Former NFL players Colin Kaepernick and Marshawn Lynch are turning their attention to boosting diversity and inclusion in hockey. The two will join members of the Hockey Diversity Alliance in hosting a road hockey tournament for marginalized youth in Toronto on Aug. 16, the alliance announced Thursday. The HDA is made up of current…

[published_date] The Olympic-style sports venture that will run an event next year with no drug testing signed world champion swimmer Megan Romano as its first female and first American athlete Friday. The Enhanced Games will debut next May in Las Vegas, featuring swimming, track and weightlifting competitions in an event that will allow athletes to…

[published_date] There will be a new women's singles champion at the National Bank Open. Two-time reigning champion Jessica Pegula of the United States is out in the third round after falling to Latvia's Anastasija Sevastova 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 in a major upset Friday afternoon at the WTA 1000 tournament. The 35-year-old Sevastova reached a career-high…

[published_date] The Canadian women's hockey team will begin its quest to defend its Olympic title with three training camps throughout the country this summer and fall. It will be the first time that Hockey Canada must work around the PWHL as it builds the roster that will head to Milan Cortina in February. Players won't be…

[published_date] The past, present and future of Canadian men's hockey will meet at a Hockey Canada national team orientation camp in Calgary later this month. Young stars Connor Bedard (Chicago Blackhawks) and Macklin Celebrini (San Jose Sharks) will join Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Penguins), Nathan MacKinnon (Colorado Avalanche) and Connor McDavid (Edmonton Oilers), who have already been named to the…

[published_date] Andre De Grasse is skipping the Canadian championship in Ottawa due to tightness in his hamstring. De Grasse, a seven-time Olympic medallist and the anchor of Canada's 4x100-metre gold-medal team at the 2024 Paris Summer Games, said the injury will keep him from competing this weekend. "Unfortunately, I won't be competing this weekend," De Grasse told…

[published_date] An Ontario judge urged a teen girl found guilty of manslaughter in a deadly swarming attack on a homeless Toronto man not to forget or minimize the events of that night as he sentenced her to probation Friday. Ontario Superior Court Justice Philip Campbell encouraged the girl to be "clear and candid" about her…

[published_date] Cécile Dionne, one of the world-famous Dionne quintuplets, died earlier this week following a long illness. She was 91. Her death, in a Montreal hospital, was confirmed by Carlo Tarini, a former spokesperson for the family and close friend.   The Dionne quintuplets became a global sensation after their birth in a small loghouse outside Corbeil, Ont., on May…

[published_date] Uber Canada says it has updated its safety protocols for emergency situations after an incident in March where company representatives refused to contact a driver after he drove off with a child.  Julia Viscomi said Uber customer support refused to help her or Toronto police contact the driver after he left with her 5-year-old daughter…

[published_date] B.C.'s fire season is surging as the number of active wildfires more than doubled from 61 on Thursday to 134 by Friday morning, according to the B.C. Wildfire Service (BCWS). The service says the surprising increase in fires can be attributed to the more than 35,000 lightning strikes on July 30 and 31 — with even…

[published_date] Police in London, Ont. are asking the public to be on the lookout for a man who was accidentally released from custody after he was charged with attempted murder. In hurried announcement Friday evening, police said the man was "erroneously released from custody" almost 24 hours earlier after he had attended a court appearance in relation…