By Canadian Press on February 12th, 2026
This year’s NBA draft appears to be one of the strongest in several years, and losing enough games to become a lottery team could result in a bigger payoff than even making a play-in game. The NBA has frowned on teams that appear to be tanking for a high pick, and the league implemented a ... Read More »
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FRISCO — Canada’s Denis Shapovalov fired 22 aces en route to downing American Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4, 6-4 on Thursday at the Dallas Open tennis tournament. Shapovalov, the seventh seed from Richmond Hill, Ont., was dominant on his serve with only one double fault in the match. Kovacevic had just four aces to go with a ... Read More »
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Sarai Linder struck in the fifth minute of added time as host Wolfsburg rallied from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Juventus in the Women’s Champions League playoffs on Thursday. Linder fired into the top corner from the edge of the area to seal the draw ahead of next week’s second leg in Turin. ... Read More »
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OTTAWA — Major airlines are claiming the initial findings of a federal probe clear their industry of allegations of unpaid work, but Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says investigators need more data before the issue is settled. On Thursday, the federal government published the initial findings of a probe it launched six months earlier into allegations ... Read More »
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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is optimistic that major leaguers will play in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Manfred, speaking following an owners meeting Thursday, said there are still issues to resolve with the Major League Baseball Players Association before those Olympic aspirations are a reality, but “I think we’re a ... Read More »
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TUMBLER RIDGE — RCMP have named those who died in shootings in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., this week, including the five children and teacher who were killed at a school and the mother and stepbrother of the shooter. The victims at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School were Abel Mwansa, Kylie Smith, Zoey Benoit and Ticaria Lampert, all ... Read More »
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NEW YORK (AP) — PEN America announced Thursday that interim CEOs Summer Lopez and Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf have been appointed to permanently oversee the century-old literary and free expression organization. “Summer and Clarisse have been the guiding force behind PEN America’s extraordinary literary programming and robust defense of free expression,” Dinaw Mengestu, president of PEN’s ... Read More »
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DUNEDIN — Jose Berrios is sorry he missed the Toronto Blue Jays’ World Series appearance last year. Berrios formally apologized to his Blue Jays teammates after arriving at spring training and was contrite Thursday in his first interview with media since last autumn. Berrios was excluded from Toronto’s playoff rosters with tendon inflammation in his ... Read More »
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MADRID (AP) — Barcelona gave Atletico Madrid an unexpected early present in their Copa del Rey match on Thursday when goalkeeper Joan García let the ball slip underneath his foot after a defender’s back pass. Atletico leads Barcelona 4-0 at halftime in a disastrous first half for the visitors. The rout started when García tried ... Read More »
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TUMBLER RIDGE — RCMP have named those who died in shootings at Tumbler Ridge, B.C., this week, including the five children and teacher who were killed at a school and the mother and stepbrother of the shooter. The victims at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School were Abel Mwansa, Kylie Smith, Zoey Benoit and Ticaria Lampert, all ... Read More »
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OTTAWA — Culture Minister Marc Miller accused a Conservative MP Thursday of misleading a Parliamentary committee by claiming a comment from the head of an independent producers’ group in support of the government was made on behalf of the news media. “The job of these people is to make shows. Like with puppets,” Miller said ... Read More »
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