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Starc torments England with bat and ball in 2nd Ashes test as Australia eyes another big win
By Canadian Press on December 6th, 2025
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Mitchell Starc has been menacing England with the ball in this Ashes series. Now he’s doing damage with the bat, too. At stumps on Day 3 of the second test, England was teetering on 134-6 in its second innings and still needed to score 43 runs to make Australia bat again. ... Read More »
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By Lethbridge Herald Obituaries on December 6th, 2025
VIROSTEK, Blaine
BRAND, Bradley
AIMOTO, Yoshio "Yosh"
CONNERS, Charles
IRON SHIRT, Roland
SWEET GRASS, Arthur
MULLIN, Ronald
COMSTOCK, Robert "Bob"
HOLZ, Willy
RAE, Judith "Judie"
BRUGOS, Joseph "Joe"
HRANAC, Darlene
LEIER, Philip "Phil"
Nearly half the tickets for Milan Cortina Olympics still unsold with 2 months to go
By Canadian Press on December 6th, 2025
ROME (AP) — Construction on the main hockey arena is still not finished. Spectator and media areas at the controversial sliding venue also need to be completed. And with exactly two months to go to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, there is another major area that local organizers are concentrating on: only slightly more than ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hamilton crashes in final practice for F1 title-deciding Abu Dhabi GP ahead of qualifying
By Canadian Press on December 6th, 2025
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton crashed in the final practice of the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ahead of qualifying later Saturday. The thrilling three-way title battle will be decided on Sunday at the Yas Marina Circuit. McLaren driver Lando Norris is 12 points ahead of Red ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mitchell Starc torments England with the bat and ball in 2nd Ashes test
By Canadian Press on December 6th, 2025
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Mitchell Starc has been menacing England with the ball in this Ashes series. Now he’s doing damage with the bat, too. At stumps on Day 3 of the second test, England was teetering on 134-6 in its second innings and still needed to score 43 runs to make Australia bat again. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tyler Adams sets bold goal of farthest US World Cup advancement
By Canadian Press on December 6th, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tyler Adams has set a bold goal for the U.S. soccer team, aiming to reach the World Cup semifinals for the first time since the inaugural tournament in 1930. “Everyone’s going to want us to say winning it is obviously the goal,” the American midfielder said Friday after the World Cup draw, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Summer Olympians begin torch relay for Milan Cortina Winter Games on 2-month countdown
By Canadian Press on December 6th, 2025
ROME (AP) — Olympic swimming champion Gregorio Paltrinieri and fellow Summer athletes started off the torch relay for the Milan Cortina Winter Games on Saturday — which marked exactly two months before the Feb. 6 opening ceremony. Paltrinieri carried the sleek torch around the track of the statue-lined Stadio dei Marmi at the Foro Italico ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Zacharias Kunuk is making Inuit stories for the future with TIFF-winning ‘Wrong Husband’
By Canadian Press on December 6th, 2025
Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk says his new fantasy feature is as much about the future as it is about a 4,000-year-old tale. “We’re thinking a hundred years from now, when we’re down in the ground, people will study these films,” says the 68-year-old. “So we have to try to do it right.” Set in 2000 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Potential Canada-Italy World Cup game in Toronto would be ‘electric,’ fans say
By Canadian Press on December 6th, 2025
TORONTO — The draw for next summer’s World Cup has opened the possibility that Canada will face Italy in its June 12 opener in Toronto, and hopes in the city’s Little Italy neighbourhood are running high. The Canadian men’s soccer team drew Switzerland, the fifth-ranked team in Pot 2, and Qatar, the 10th-ranked side in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Events to mark 36 years since Polytechnique attack, honouring 14 women slain in 1989
By Canadian Press on December 6th, 2025
MONTREAL — Polytechnique Montréal and others across the country will pay tribute today to the 14 women who were murdered at the engineering school 36 years ago in a brazen anti-feminist attack. Wreaths of white roses will be laid in front of a commemorative plaque at Polytechnique’s main building during an early morning ceremony that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Frank Gehry’s AGO expansion became the backdrop to Torontonians’ lives: CEO
By Canadian Press on December 6th, 2025
TORONTO — Without Frank Gehry, the Art Gallery of Ontario wouldn’t be what it is today. So says the gallery’s CEO, Stephan Jost, who points to the renowned architect’s 2008 transformation of the space as a formative moment for the century-old institution. “It didn’t just solidify its position in Toronto or Canada. It solidified its ... Read More »
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