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Canada's Bianca Andreescu was eliminated from the Australian Open on Thursday, dropping her second-round match 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 to Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia. The loss halted a solid start to the 2019 tennis season for the 18-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., who was coming off her first final appearance at a WTA tournament two weeks ago. […]
It wasn't just Canada's junior hockey team that was devastated Wednesday night — it was the entire country, says defenceman Ian Mitchell. The defending champions were ousted from the world junior hockey championship after a dramatic 2-1 overtime loss to Finland. It's the first time Canada has not won a medal when hosting the tournament and only […]
When a Canadian is on the losing end of a hockey game at any level it's never easy. It doesn't matter if it's a peewee house-league final in Cole Harbour, N.S., or on the bigger stages like the world junior tournament, the world championship or an Olympic gold-medal final. So imagine how the 2019 Canadian world […]
Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime fell to Ivo Karlovic of Croatia 6-4, 7-5 in the first round of the Tata Open Maharashtra on Tuesday. The 18-year-old Auger-Aliassime, ranked 109th in the world, advanced to the main draw of the ATP 250 tournament after defeating Italian Gianluigi Quinzi 7-5, 6-3 in his final qualifier. The Montreal native was […]
Jaakko Rissanen scored in the eighth round of a shootout to give Finnish club KalPa Kuopio a 2-1 win over three-time defending champion Canada in the final of the Spengler Cup on Monday. KalPa goalie Denis Godla led his team to a 3-2 shootout win against Canada netminder Zach Fucale and his squad in Davos, […]
Defencemen Jared McIsaac will be sitting out Canada's final preliminary-round game at the world juniors. The IIHF disciplinary panel handed McIsaac a one-game suspension Sunday for his high hit on Czech forward Jachym Kondelik in Canada's 5-1 win a day earlier. The 18-year-old McIsaac, who plays for the QMJHL's Halifax Mooseheads, was disciplined for "checking […]
Canadian junior defenceman Noah Dobson is proof there are different paths to teenage hockey stardom. Dobson scored Canada's game-winning goal midway through the second period against Switzerland on Thursday when he took a pass from teammate Barrett Hayton and swept a shot through the pads of Swiss netminder Akira Schmid, even though defenceman Janis Moser was […]
Canada's Ivanie Blondin captured her second medal of the weekend at a World Cup speed skating event in Tomakomai, Japan, on Saturday. The Ottawa native won bronze in the women's mass start in a time of eight minutes, 52.260 seconds, just one-hundredth of a second behind the silver time of Italy's Francesca Lollobrigida. Watch the women's mass […]
THUNDER BAY, ONT. — If it were up to Canada's Olympic curlers, the 2026 Winter Games would be in Calgary. Many of this country's past curling champions are all under one roof this week at the Grand Slam Tour Challenge event in Thunder Bay and they're talking about getting the Games back on home soil. […]
A sexual assault trial involving the former coach of the Canadian national women's gymnastics team begins Monday in Sarnia, Ont. Dave Brubaker, 55, is facing multiple sexual offences spanning an eight-year period from 2000 to 2007. The allegations stem from a series of incidents involving Brubaker and a female who he was coaching and was […]
