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Ottawa's Rideau Canal Skateway opening scaled back and delayed to Sunday afternoon
OTTAWA - Skaters eager to hit the ice on Ottawa's iconic Rideau Canal will have to wait a few hours longer and will have a shorter stretch to glide on than previously expected. The National Capital Co...
Jan 21, 2024
Ottawa's Rideau Canal Skateway opening scaled back and delayed to Sunday afternoon
OTTAWA - Skaters eager to hit the ice on Ottawa's iconic Rideau Canal will have to wait a few hours longer and will have a shorter stretch to glide on than previously expected. The National Capital Co...
Jan 21, 2024
Dricus Du Plessis wins middleweight title after gruelling war of attrition at UFC 297
TORONTO - Middleweight champion Sean Strickland and challenger Dricus (Stillknocks) Du Plessis had promised their UFC 297 showdown would be a war. "To the death," crowed Strickland before the fight. I...
Jan 21, 2024
Storm beat Summerland Steam
SUMMERLAND - After securing a 5-4 victory over the Wranglers on Friday (Jan. 19), the Kamloops Storm beat the Summerland Steam 6-1 last night (Jan. 20).Ryan Larsen led the team with one goal and two a...
Jan 21, 2024
Canada's Dabrowski advances to women's doubles quarters at Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia - Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe moved on to the women's doubles quarterfinals on Sunday. The duo defeated China's Xinyu Jiang and Hanyu Guo 4-6, 6-1...
Jan 21, 2024
Shiffrin gets career win 95 in first World Cup slalom after season-ending injury for rival Vlhova
JASNA, Slovakia (AP) - Mikaela Shiffrin earned her record-extending career win 95 by triumphing in a women's World Cup slalom Sunday, a day after the American ski star's main rival sustained a season-...
Jan 21, 2024
German skier Strasser takes Kitzbuehel slalom for 1st win in 2 years. Feller leads season standings
KITZBUEHEL, Austria (AP) - German skier Linus Strasser got down on his knees and kissed the snow on an Austrian slope he has known since he was a child, with his wife Maria and their one-year-old daug...
Jan 21, 2024
U.S. gun crime, health insurance woes scare off Canadian diplomats, union says
OTTAWA - The union that represents Canadian diplomats abroad says Global Affairs Canada should consider boosting compensation for those posted to the United States because they face increased risk of ...
Jan 21, 2024
No recharge: long-term Prairie drought raises concerns over groundwater levels
EDMONTON - In the middle of an Alberta mountain playground, adjacent to a popular ski resort, there's a well sunk into the bedrock that has John Pomeroy worried. The Marmot Creek well in Kananaskis Co...
Jan 21, 2024
COLLINS: More empty promises for help down the drain
HOW QUICKLY THINGS CHANGE. Not too long ago, I wrote that help for Ukraine would last until something bigger came along in the news cycle. This, in the midst of Ukraine's heroic battle to hold off the...
Jan 21, 2024
