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[published_date] Canadian sprint canoeist Katie Vincent set a world record in the women's C-1 500-metre event on Sunday at the national trials in Montreal. The 29-year-old Olympic champion clocked a time of two minutes 0.609 seconds in the final at the Olympic Basin, breaking the previous mark of 2:00.73 set by Alena Nazdrova of Belarus at the 2019 world championships in Szeged, Hungary. 2022…

[published_date] B.C. Ferries says it's clarifying its internal policies to no longer allow tow trucks carrying non-operational electric vehicles (EVs) on board its vessels. Transport Canada has had a policy on the books since 2014 that mandates damaged or defective vehicle batteries be removed and transported separately from the vehicles themselves on board ferries. It comes…

[published_date] Mitch Marner appears set to call Sin City home. According to multiple media reports Monday, the Maple Leafs are trading Marner to the Vegas Golden Knights in a swap that ends his at-times mesmerizing, at-times frustrating Toronto tenure. The talented winger reportedly agreed to an eight-year, $96-million US contract with the Leafs ahead of…

[published_date] U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says President Donald Trump's renewed 51st state rhetoric can be taken as a compliment, suggesting that's how it's seen by Prime Minister Mark Carney. In an interview with CBC's Power & Politics, Hoekstra suggested Carney saw the comments as a "term of endearment," while clarifying Canada's leader "didn't exactly use this word." When…

[published_date] The federal government says it has removed all interprovincial trade barriers under its jurisdiction.  Ottawa has eliminated the remaining federal exceptions from the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), Internal Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a press release on Monday.  Of the 53 exceptions removed, most of them focused on procurement, according to the press…

[published_date] A Toronto senior is speaking out after she was left without her Old Age Security benefit for months because of a simple error by Service Canada that left her in a dire situation: the wrong year was allegedly entered into its system. Debbie Westfall says she applied for OAS in January, well before she turned 65 in March, because…

[published_date] Lululemon is accusing Costco of infringing on its intellectual property by selling knock-offs of some of its most popular products. A lawsuit filed in a California court recently alleges Costco sells "dupes" of Lululemon's Scuba hoodies and sweatshirts, Define jackets and ABC pants. Some of the alleged fakes Vancouver-based Lululemon identified are sold under Costco's private…

[published_date] The Blanchard's Cricket Frog is so tiny it can fit on your thumb, and the distinctive call for which it is named would make it easy to hear — if it hadn't recently been declared locally extinct in its wetland habitat of southwestern Ontario.  Thomas Hossie, assistant professor of biology who studies amphibians at the province's Trent University, described the sound as "shaking…

[published_date] From the classic symbols like the beaver and a Tim Horton's cup, to more niche Canadian references like bagged milk and the North American house hippo, Calgary-based artist Lynne Rennie is piecing together a "cultural mosaic" of Canadian-ness — one drawing at a time. "I am very interested in how symbols create a shared…

[published_date] British Columbia farmers lost $456.9 million in 2024, according to Statistics Canada, with a lobby group saying there are multiple reasons the province's agricultural sector suffered the largest net loss in Canada last year. Statistics Canada data shows that B.C. farms, as a whole, haven't turned a profit since 2017, and the farm sector has seen a larger net loss…

[published_date] Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has announced 83 appointments to the Order of Canada — a list that includes doctors, diplomats, athletes and authors. Simon's office announced two new companions — the highest level of the Order of Canada — 19 officers and 62 members, the introductory honour level in the order. One appointment is a…

[published_date] As Canada prepares Tuesday to blow out 158 birthday candles, Alberta plans three days later to formalize rules making it easier to have an independence celebration of its own. Beginning Friday, Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative government is officially lowering the required threshold for citizens to initiate a provincewide referendum, including on separation. Mitch…