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Laurent Dubreuil has redeemed himself in speed skating’s 500 metres, earning Olympic bronze after missing the medal podium by 3-100ths of a second four years ago. CBC | Sports News
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Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris cleared for slopestyle after crash
Snowboarder Mark McMorris of Canada, a three-time Olympic bronze medallist, said on Friday he had recovered from a recent concussion and received clearance from doctors to compete in the men’s slopestyle event at the Milano-Cortina Games. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canadian mining company employees worked amid gunfire, Mexican cartel checkpoints, says family member
Vizsla Silver Corp.’s workers laboured in an environment punctured by gunfire, cartel checkpoints and drones, says the brother of a geologist with the Canadian mining company in Mexico, who was among five people found dead after they were kidnapped by a suspected faction of the Sinaloa cartel. CBC | World News
Read More »Netanyahu again flies through Canadian airspace en route to Washington
Online flight trackers show that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew hundreds of kilometres through Canadian airspace on his way to meet U.S. President Donald Trump this week — despite Prime Minister Mark Carney previously saying he would honour an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. CBC | World News
Read More »Canadian pairs team Stellato-Dudek, Deschamps will compete at Olympics
Canadian pairs team Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps will get their chance at Olympic glory after all. The pair will leave Montreal on Wednesday and arrive in Milan on Thursday after Stellato-Dudek was cleared to compete, Skate Canada announced Tuesday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canadian short track team wins Olympic silver in mixed team relay
Canada’s William Dandjinou, Courtney Sarault, Felix Roussel, and Kim Boutin won Olympic silver in the short track speed skating mixed team relay final on Tuesday in Milan, Italy. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Poulin injury clouds comfortable Canadian victory in physical contest against Czechs
It’s unclear whether Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin will be healthy enough to play in Tuesday’s game against the U.S., after she left Monday’s game with an injury. CBC | Sports News
Read More »NHLer Macklin Celebrini set to play key Olympic role for Canadian men: ‘It’s no fluke’
The NHL is finally back in the international spotlight at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games following a 12-year ice age. And Macklin Celebrini is a peach-fuzzed beneficiary. “I’m super grateful,” says the centre from North Vancouver, B.C. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Grief grows as bodies of kidnapped workers of Canadian mining company identified in Mexico
Jaime Castañeda was in the coastal Mexican city of Mazatlán on Sunday to identify the body of his 43-year-old brother. José Manuel Castañeda Hernández was working for Vancouver-based mining company Vizsla Silver Corp. when he was kidnapped last month, along with nine other employees. CBC | World News
Read More »Canadian airlines issue travel advisories as Cuban airport warns it will run out of jet fuel
Several Canadian airlines have issued travel advisories for Cuba as the Caribbean island’s major airport warns it will run out of jet fuel by Tuesday. CBC | World News
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