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Jordi Fernandez is stepping down as head coach of Canada’s senior men’s national basketball team, Canada Basketball announced Thursday. CBC | Sports News
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Scarcity behind the medals: Canada’s Olympic sports facing funding crisis
Survey data indicates 80 per cent of NSOs are skipping competitions athletes would normally attend, 70 per cent have paused, scaled back or eliminated programming, 90 per cent have reduced or eliminated training camps and 80 per cent have increased athlete fees, said COC CEO David Shoemaker. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Behind the scenes of Canada’s push to avoid Donald Trump’s punishing tariffs
Despite winning a month-long reprieve from potentially devastating U.S. tariffs, there is a deep sense of anxiety hanging over some of the most senior Canadian government officials who manage the relationship with President Donald Trump. CBC | World News
Read More »Canada’s Davis Cup comeback against Hungary falls short; Pospisil says he’ll retire in 2025
Marton Fucsovics defeated Alexis Galarneau of Laval, Que., 7-6 (8), 6-4, in the decisive fifth match to lift Hungary past Canada 3-2 in the men’s team tennis tournament first-round qualifier. CBC | Sports News
Read More »China’s non-specific response to Trump tariffs stands in contrast to Canada’s retaliatory measures
Beijing says it wants dialogue with U.S. President Donald Trump and will go ahead with unspecified “countermeasures” to new U.S. tariffs on imports from China. CBC | World News
Read More »Canada’s Grondin wins World Cup snowboard cross gold
Canada’s Éliot Grondin raced to World Cup gold at a snowboard cross event in Beidahu, China, on Saturday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Why Canada’s spies worry about Trump’s national intelligence nominee
The U.S. Senate is conducting confirmation hearings for Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence. Gabbard has no background in intelligence, and a history of promoting conspiracies and supporting dictators at odds with the West. Canadian intelligence experts say that could be a problem for Canada. CBC | World News
Read More »Canada’s Marielle Thompson wins ski cross gold in Switzerland
Canadians Marielle Thompson, India Sherret, and Reece Howden raced onto the podium at a World Cup ski cross event in Veysonnaz, Switzerland, on Saturday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Kingsbury, Schwinghammer win World Cup moguls gold
Canada’s Mikael Kingsbury and Maia Schwinghammer won moguls gold Friday night at the World Cup event in Val St. Come, Que. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Kylee Toth relishes uphill battle of ‘punishing’ ski mountaineering ahead of its Olympics debut
For many people, skiing uphill sounds like nothing more than, well, an uphill battle. But for Cochrane, Alta., native Kylee Toth, gliding upwards on a mountain for hours at a time — also known as the sport of ski mountaineering — is where she finds her sense of peace. CBC | Sports News
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