The last few weeks of Alaina Tripp’s life might as well be out of a movie. What began with heartbreak last September when her puppy Teddy was stolen from her downtown Ottawa apartment, led to skepticism, then joy last month when she received a series of phone calls and messages telling her the miniature white poodle had…
This is a web version of the Buzzer, the daily email newsletter from CBC Sports. Subscribe here. Paris officially bid adieu to its Summer Games this evening with a festive closing ceremony featuring joyous athletes, live music, theatrical performances and, yes, Tom Cruise. Summer McIntosh and Ethan Katzberg — Canada’s two youngest gold medallists — shared the role of flag-bearer…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 12, 2024 12:30 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Goodyear Canada is planning to spend more than $575 million to expand and modernize an eastern Ontario plant to produce electric vehicle and all-terrain tires and make its processes more energy efficient. Prime…
The company at the heart of the travel-nurse controversy is now the subject of a complaint over unpaid wages under New Brunswick’s Employment Standards Act. A nurse who moved to the province from France to work for Canadian Health Labs as a personal support worker says the company turned his life upside down when its…
The beauty of the Olympics often comes in the form of the unexpected. Three years ago, after the Tokyo Olympics ended, it would have been hard to predict that Canada would go on to win gold medals in judo, hammer throw and breaking at Paris 2024 — yet that’s exactly what happened. In the four…
From his office overlooking the runway at Gander International Airport, Reg Wright can see all flights in and out of his corner of Newfoundland. But in recent years, those plane spottings have been fewer and farther between. “In Newfoundland, we have a saying called the fisherman’s widow, which is typically anyone that keeps eyes to…
Members of Tina Fontaine’s family and community gathered to honour her memory Saturday night, a week before the 10-year anniversary since she was found in Winnipeg’s Red River. “Tina was a sweet, sweet girl,” said her brother, Elroy Fontaine, 18, while addressing the crowd at the Alexander Docks near where her body was found in…
Lydia Ko completed her Olympic medal collection on Saturday with the most valuable of of them all, a gold medal that puts the 27-year-old Kiwi into the LPGA Hall of Fame. Ko built a five-shot lead on the back nine at Le Golf National as her closest pursuers all collapsed, and then had to hang…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Montreal was drenched in record-breaking rain and hundreds of thousands of homes were plunged into darkness across Quebec as tropical storm Debby‘s last gasps hit eastern Canada on Friday. “The torrential rains that fell on Quebec yesterday caused flooding in several homes and damage in several regions,”…
Torrential rains drenched southern Quebec on Friday, breaking the record for rainfall in Montreal. The rain came in the wake of tropical storm Debby and a low pressure system that had formed over the Great Lakes. According to Environment and Climate Change Canada figures, the city received 157 millimetres of rain on Friday, surpassing the previous all-time…
