The Canadian basketball community is a family tree. Take Steve Konchalski, the man affectionately known as Canada’s Coach K, who guided the men’s team at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia for 46 years. Konchalski was an assistant under Jack Donohue, who coached the Canadian men’s national team to Olympic qualification in 1976, 1980,…
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Jeremy Ettawakapow waited years to learn what happened the night his father died in RCMP custody. Following a five-day inquest last month, he knows the tragedy could have been prevented. “He could have had another day. He could have another month, could have another year.… That’s something that I’m very heartbroken about,” he said on June…
Ayaka Furue of Japan made a late charge to win the Evian Championship with an eagle on the last hole to clinch her first major title on Sunday. The 24-year-old Furue held her nerve with another clinical putt, having made three birdies in the previous four holes to finish on 19 under overall in Evian-Les-Bains, France. Furue…
From birth to adulthood, Sherri Jones’ life has been both unusual and rare. The 54-year-old resident of Red Deer, Alb., was born despite her mom using an intrauterine device — a one-in-100 occurrence. “The IUD apparently had gotten stuck on her bladder, and it penetrated her bladder, which is why she was able to conceive,”…
Ninety-three year old Albert Annand has shopped at Frieze and Roy in Maitland, N.S., throughout his life, but the store is about double his age. The business, considered by many as Canada’s oldest general store, is celebrating 185 years of selling goods in the village at the mouth of the Shubenacadie River near Cobequid Bay. “I’d…
Barbora Krejcikova won the Wimbledon’s women’s final for her second Grand Slam title with a 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 victory over Jasmine Paolini on Saturday. Krejcikova is a 28-year-old from the Czech Republic who adds this trophy to her championship at the French Open in 2021. She was unseeded in Paris back then and was only the…
As many parts of Canada reeled under hot weather, a group representing migrant farm workers wrote a letter to Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Monday, urging him to put protections in place for those toiling in the fields. “Farmworkers are 35 times more likely than the general public to die of heat exposure,” Chris Ramsaroop,…
Thousands of Labrador City residents are heading east to Happy Valley-Goose Bay as a wildfire threatens the town. (Darryl Dinn/ CBC) Fire crew teams continue to battle wildfires across Labrador Saturday. Residents of Labrador City were told to evacuate on Friday at 5:30 p.m. AT and to head 500 kilometres east to Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Labrador City…
Paris is magic, glitter, love and style, says the Canadian athletes about to compete there in the Olympic Games. The prospect of performing in the world’s biggest sporting event with la Ville Lumiere, or City of Light, their stage makes their eyes soften and their voices take on a dreamy quality. “Paris is a very…
