This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports’ daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what’s happening in sports by subscribing here. Here’s a look at how Canadian athletes performed on the international stage over the past couple days: Swimming: Summer puts a ! on 2024 Summer McIntosh wrapped up her incredibly…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Just hours after Chrystia Freeland resigned from cabinet, a new finance minister is set to be sworn in, sources tell Global News. Three sources told Global News there would be a swearing in at Rideau Hall at 4 p.m. Eastern. Earlier on Monday, Freeland advised Trudeau in…
Former Xatsull First Nation chief Bev Sellars recalls an emergency meeting after the Mount Polley Mine disaster, where elders were in tears as they thought of fish swimming through the toxic waste that had inundated their territorial waters. She thinks of the 2014 disaster often. “There are physical changes you can still see,” Sellars said….
Italy’s Sofia Goggia made a stirring return to competition as she won the women’s super-G in Beaver Creek, Colorado on Sunday for her 25th World Cup victory in only her second race since breaking her right leg in February. Goggia covered the Birds of Prey course in a time of one minute 3.9 seconds to beat…
As the federal government looks to drastically reduce its immigration targets over the next few years, the mayors of northern Ontario’s largest cities say they need more immigrants to sustain local economies and population. The mayors of Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay and Sudbury are calling on Ottawa to deliver on its promise to make…
The Sea to Sky Highway (Highway 99) has reopened between Lions Bay and Brunswick Beach, B.C., after a landslide Saturday that officials say swept one home off its foundations. DriveBC reported the road connecting Vancouver to Whistler, B.C., reopened in both directions around 5 a.m. PT Sunday morning, ahead of an estimated reopening at 9 a.m. PT. Emergency officials…
Cornelia Huetter of Austria navigated the tricky and steep terrain Saturday to win the first-ever women’s World Cup downhill held on the Birds of Prey course. Huetter finished in 1 minute, 32.38 seconds to hold off Italian ski racer Sofia Goggia by 0.16 seconds. Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland wound up third. Reaching speeds near 79…
With a baby on her back, Zawadi Maringa came in quietly to the Utange Field Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, in early November. She had heard about a cleft lip and palate camp offering surgery free of charge by a Canadian medical team called Operation Rainbow Canada. But the help she needed wasn’t for her child….
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is warning a 25 per cent tariff U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is threatening would hurt Canada’s food and energy sectors and be “disastrous” for economic stability and security on both sides of the border. “We’ve dealt with this in the past, and we need to approach it the same way now…
As the newly-named host of the 2034 World Cup in men’s soccer, Saudi Arabia says it will construct or renovate 15 stadiums, create a futuristic city and expand airports in a massive buildout to accommodate millions of athletes, coaches and spectators. That will emit tons of planet-warming greenhouse gases as concrete and steel are manufactured and…
