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Teen Andrew Nembhard says playing for Canada sets him up nicely for NCAA season
SHANGHAI - Andrew Nembhard's summer basketball highlight actually happened before Canada's team touched down in China for the FIBA World Cup. Quarterbacking Canada's second unit, the 19-year-old from ...
Sep 08, 2019
Nick Nurse sympathizes with Lithuanian coach after blown call at World Cup
SHANGHAI - Canada's men's basketball coach Nick Nurse has plenty of sympathy for Dainius Adomaitis. The Lithuanian coach was livid after a botched call late in his team's 78-75 loss to France tha...
Sep 08, 2019
Canada's Grand Slam champ Andreescu credits winning mindset to meditation
NEW YORK - Bianca Andreescu began her day Saturday the same way she started every morning during her run to the U.S. Open title. By meditating and visualizing how she could beat her next opp...
Sep 08, 2019
They the North: Raptors coach Nick Nurse happy to share spotlight with Andreescu
SHANGHAI - Count Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse among the legion of Bianca Andreescu fans. Nurse woke up early Sunday morning in China to a flurry of texts from Toronto about the Canadian tennis phe...
Sep 08, 2019
Power utilities, troops begin massive post-Dorian cleanup in Maritimes
HALIFAX - More than 400,000 people are without electricity across the Maritimes this morning as post-tropical storm Dorian left behind a tangled mess of splintered trees and downed power lin...
Sep 08, 2019 (File Photo/The Canadian Press)
Leclerc ends Ferrari's 9-year wait for Italian GP win
MONZA, Italy - Charles Leclerc ended Ferrari's nine-year wait for victory at its home circuit as he held off the Mercedes duo to win the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday, securing his second successive Fo...
Sep 08, 2019
Late arrivals Klassen, Morgan cherishing the chance to play for Canada
SHANGHAI - Owen Klassen had just touched down in Belgium and was going through the entrance protocol with his new pro team when he got the call from Canada. Toronto Raptors forward Chris Boucher had j...
Sep 08, 2019
First Nations given max compensation for Ottawa's child-welfare discrimination
OTTAWA - A Friday ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal about Canada's treatment of Indigenous children demands a full investigation of the federal Indigenous-affairs department,...
Sep 08, 2019
Justices tuning in to cable television civil rights lawsuit
WASHINGTON - Comedian and media mogul Byron Allen wants TV viewers to watch the channels his company produces - from one that runs "Judge Judy"-like shows all day to those dedicated to comedy, cars, f...
Sep 08, 2019
Janelle Monae rocked Ralph Lauren's jazz club of yesteryear
NEW YORK - Janelle Monae brought down the house Saturday at Ralph Lauren's New York Fashion Week show, where "the house" was a jazzy nightclub of yesteryear that Lauren created inside a Wall Street bu...
Sep 08, 2019
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