Click on the video player above beginning at 12:05 p.m. ET to watch live Olympic athletics coverage. Watch live track action featuring Andre De Grasse in the men’s 200m semifinals at the bottom of this story. Canada’s Alysha Newman is going for gold in the Olympic women’s pole vault final at 12:15 p.m. ET at Stade…
A new study by Statistics Canada is trying to answer the looming question of how the country will be impacted once the remaining baby boomer generation retires — and it points to immigration as a factor that could both help and challenge. The study, released Tuesday, looked at how different immigration levels and labour force…
Kacie Bosch committed blood, sweat and tears to the Canadian women’s 3×3 basketball team at the Paris Olympics. Bosch was wounded in the play-in game against Australia, leaking blood and requiring on-court treatment before finishing out the tournament with a bandage above her right eye. The tournament itself “was definitely the biggest toll on our…
Canadian diver Caeli McKay has fallen just short of the podium again, finishing fourth in women’s 10-metre platform at the Paris Games roughly a week after she and partner Kate Miller landed in the same spot in the synchronized event. McKay, of Calgary, jumped from eighth to fourth place in her third dive but couldn’t…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Winnipeg Humane Society says it has its hands full dealing with a massive influx of animals after a historic seizure by the province. The WHS said Tuesday that the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian-Animal Welfare recently removed more than 130 dogs from a home north of…
Manny Grosse, 73, has lived his whole life in Halifax, most of it in public housing. So have eight of his 10 siblings who, like Grosse, moved into public housing and started families there. It didn’t begin that way. Grosse was baby No. 7 when his parents, Henry and Irene Grouse, were renting on Jacob…
Three years ago in Tokyo, Canadian paddlers Laurence Vincent Lapointe and Katie Vincent stormed back from fifth place in the final 250 metres of the C-2 500m canoe sprint, pushing their way to an Olympic bronze medal. It was the first time the Olympics featured women’s canoe sprint events after years of fighting for women…
With crime on the rise, many people are wondering how to defend themselves. But the laws around self-defence are complicated. Criminal defence lawyer Linh Pham says self-defence claims have three elements. “The first is the person has to have a reasonable grounds to fear that they’re getting assaulted or that they’re under threat,” Pham said….
A family has been forced to find a new home after the house they rented in Winnipeg was completely gutted in a fire that they say was caused by an electronic bike. Catherine Beardy says she, her five young children and two of her brothers had to flee the two-storey house on Toronto Street where she…
Four-time Olympian Damian Warner says withdrawing from the Olympic men’s decathlon competition in Paris was like a “worst nightmare come true.” The 34-year-old from London, Ont., fell out of contention in the decathlon’s third-to-last event on Saturday when he failed to clear the bar on any of his three attempts in the pole vault. Warner…
