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Among Paralympic sports, boccia is one of a kind. Some have compared it to curling. Others have likened it to lawn bowling. But there is no true able-bodied equivalent to boccia, says two-time Canadian Paralympian Brock Richardson. CBC | Sports News
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Jones tops fellow Canadian Lawes to win 10th career Grand Slam of Curling title
Jennifer Jones defeated Kaitlyn Lawes 7-4 on Sunday to win the HearingLife Tour Challenge in Niagara Falls, Ont., for her 10th career Grand Slam of Curling title. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canadian women’s, men’s relay teams strike short track gold at World Cup opener in Montreal
Canada’s short track speed skating team earned its first gold medals of the World Cup season in Montreal on Sunday, with both the women’s and men’s relay teams securing victories in the last two races of the three-day event. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canadian skateboarder, 13, wins gold at the Pan Am Games
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Read More »Erin Brooks, 16, wins Brazil surfing event after bid for Canadian citizenship turned down
Teenage surfer Erin Brooks, whose bid for Canadian citizenship was denied this week, won the Corona Saquarema Pro on Saturday in Brazil. Brooks, 16, defeated Australia’s Sophie McCulloch in the final of the World Surf League’s Challenger Series stop. CBC | Sports News
Read More »U.S. conservatives are using Canadian research to justify anti-trans laws
A Toronto psychologist has become one of the most in-demand expert witnesses helping U.S. states defend laws that ban gender-affirming care. He says he’s just sharing the science, but major medical associations disagree. CBC | World News
Read More »Teen surfing prodigy Erin Brooks’ Canadian citizenship request denied by feds
Teenage surfing prodigy Erin Brooks has had her bid for Canadian citizenship turned down by the federal government. The 16-year-old Brooks was born in Texas and grew up in Hawaii but has Canadian ties through her father, Jeff, who is a dual American-Canadian citizen. CBC | Sports News
Read More »‘We’re ready to go in,’ says Israeli Canadian reservist preparing for Gaza offensive
An estimated 360,000 Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) reservists have been called up since Hamas militants killed more than 1,400 Israelis in a brutal rampage on Oct. 7. A Calgary-born Israeli reservist says he’s ‘ready to go and not come back until Israel is safe and secure.’ CBC | World News
Read More »Canadian sentenced for message suggesting Anne Frank’s diary was not authentic
A Dutch court on Thursday sentenced a man to two months in jail for projecting a message by laser onto the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam that suggested Frank’s diary was a forgery or that she had not written it. CBC | World News
Read More »For Canadian athletes with Chilean roots, Pan Am Games will mean a lot more than just sport
It promises to be an emotional return to Santiago this week at the Pan Am Games for Canadian beach volleyball player Melissa Humana-Paredes, the daughter of two Chilean expatriates. For Skylar Park and her brothers, it’s their first trip to their mother’s homeland. CBC | Sports News
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