Award announced tonight; B.C.’s Steve Nash won the award twice in 2005-2006 It’s time: The NBA will unveil this season’s Most Valuable Player on Wednesday night. The winner will be Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver’s Nikola Jokic or Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo. It’ll be the seventh consecutive time that a player born outside of the U.S. …
Better jobs, support with credentials would help keep newcomers, says economist An economist in New Brunswick says Canada’s new immigration minister needs to consider how to keep immigrants in Atlantic Canada, a region that has historically struggled to convince newcomers they should stay for more than a year or two. Lena Metlege Diab, a member …
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List will be reduced to final squad of 23 to 26 players by June 4 Canada has filed its preliminary roster for next month’s CONCACAF Gold Cup, a 60-man list that will be reduced to a final squad of 23 to 26 players by June 4. The 18th edition of the CONCACAF championship runs June …
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The 29-year-old took home gold in the women’s C-1 200 at last summer’s Paris Games Canada’s Katie Vincent captured gold in the women’s C1 500-metre final at a Canoe Sprint World Cup event on Saturday in Szeged, Hungary. Vincent paddled across the finish line in two minutes 5.43 seconds, beating silver medallist Yanan Ma of …
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Brendon Rodney believes that his men’s 4×100-metre relay team is the best in Canadian history. At this year’s world championships, Rodney and his teammates Aaron Brown, Andre De Grasse and Jerome Blake have a chance to make that claim undeniable. Rodney joined CBC Sports Trackside co-hosts Perdita Felicien and Brown to talk about what makes the current relay team successful, and how they …
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Fraudsters using AI to mimic voices of loved ones in ‘very targeted’ scams: investigator A Manitoba woman is speaking up after receiving a phone call she said was an AI scam that used a loved one’s voice. Leann Friesen, a mother of three from the small southern Manitoba community of Miami, got a phone call a …
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Mixed 4x100m team victorious while botched exchange costs men chance at 100m win Canada’s mixed team of 100-metre sprinters will not join its men’s and women’s counterparts at the World Athletics Championships in September but was the lone foursome to claim victory on the final day at the World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China. Sade …
India has extended the closure of 24 airports near the Pakistan border till May 15 after cross-border drone and missile threats. Security has been heightened nationwide, with flights cancelled and stricter checks enforced. The Ministry of Civil Aviation extended the closure of 24 airports near India’s western borders for five more days, till May 15. …
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According to sources in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, every passenger at all airports will now be subjected to a Secondary Ladder Point Check (SLPC) before boarding. Several airlines, inclduing Air India, Akasa Air and Indigo, issued statements to passengers requesting them to arrive three hours early as Centre stepped up security at all airports …
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Phones, TVs, and radios will sound off as part of a national preparedness drill If your phone, radio or TV blares an emergency alert today, don’t worry — it’s just a drill. A test of Alert Ready, Canada’s national public alert system, is scheduled for Wednesday at 12:55 p.m. AT across most provinces, including Prince …
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