Canada’s Linkletter eyes 1st marathon win next month in Ottawa after ‘surreal’ Boston performance

Rory Linkletter will return home to Canada next month with a clear-cut goal for his Ottawa Marathon debut. “I want to try to win a marathon,” he told CBC Sports before placing sixth on Monday in Boston, where he took 59 seconds off his personal best, finishing in two hours seven minutes two seconds. “Ottawa was…

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Federal leaders remember Pope Francis as humble pontiff who moved reconciliation forward

Canada’s political leaders are remembering Pope Francis as a humble leader with a deep moral obligation and the spiritual courage to help the world’s most vulnerable. “Today, the world lost a man who profoundly touched the lives of billions of people,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said during a campaign stop in Charlottetown on Monday.  “Pope Francis was…

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Records for Poulin, Desbiens as Canada downs Finland 8-1 in world hockey semifinal

Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin and goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens rewrote some women’s world hockey championship history ahead of the final against the United States. Poulin’s first-period goal in Saturday’s 8-1 semifinal win over Finland for her 87th career point in the tournament passed Hayley Wickenheiser for the most by a Canadian. The 34-year-old Poulin from Beauceville,…

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