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The Canadian national senior men’s wheelchair basketball team dropped a 70-57 semifinal decision to the United States, and will now have to refocus on a bronze-medal game with host Colombia on Wednesday. CBC | Sports News
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Jerome Blake on becoming the fastest man in Canada ahead of Tokyo 2025
Hosts Perdita Felicien and Aaron Brown are joined by Jerome Blake to discuss his impressive season heading into the World Championships in September. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Pin pals: The ‘unofficial sport’ of the Canada Games is breaking down barriers
There are 19 sports on the programme for the 2025 Canada Games, but the unofficial 20th sport is underway absolutely everywhere in the city. Pin trading is happening at every venue, the athletes’ village, on the streets. The reason behind the practice remains the same since it began: to open up the lines of communication between everyone at the Games. ...
Read More »Canada in ‘facility crisis’ as aging public pools face wave of major repairs or closures
More than half of Canada’s publicly owned indoor pools are at least 25 years old, and less than half of the country’s 25-metre pools are rated in good physical condition, according to a Swimming Canada report released this year. CBC | Sports News
Read More »‘We play for the honour of our ancestors’: Box lacrosse is here to stay at the Canada Games
Wildfires prompted an evacuation alert in the community of Paradise and forced the relocation of the box lacrosse competition at the 2025 Games on Tuesday. That moved the action in this year’s women’s tournament from the Paradise Double Ice Complex venue to the DF Barnes Arena. CBC | Sports News
Read More »24 countries, including Canada, call for ‘urgent action’ to halt starvation in Gaza
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Read More »‘Like whoa, it makes me feel fast’: Canada Games’ youngest athlete makes a splash
More than 2,000 athletes are in St. John’s, but 11-year-old Louisa Henry is the youngest. She also won her heat in the 50-metre breaststroke, her favourite event. Not bad for an 11-year-old who just finished Grade Six. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Team Manitoba kayaker Luke Enns leading by example at the Canada Games
Luke Enns is one of the most accomplished athletes at the 2025 Canada Games. That’s not just because of the way the Olympic-hopeful kayaker carries himself in competition, but for how he does in everyday life – as a quiet leader on and off the water. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Major opportunities on the line as rugby sevens returns to Canada Games
Rugby Canada hopes the return of rugby sevens to the Canada Games will go a long way in identifying talent earlier, and building stronger national teams. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada alone in G7 with call for prisoner release as Armenia, Azerbaijan in peace talks
The federal government is calling for the release of Armenian detainees and prisoners of war in Azerbaijan as it praised the road to peace paved by a White House-brokered meeting last week between the two countries locked in decades of conflict. CBC | World News
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