The United States wrested the gold medal back from Canada at the women’s hockey world championship with a 4-3 overtime win in Sunday’s final in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. Tessa Janecke scored the overtime winner as the U.S. claimed its second world title in three years after beating host Canada in the 2023 final in Brampton, … Read more
The United States will open the CONCACAF Gold Cup against Trinidad and Tobago on June 15 at San Jose, California, play Saudi Arabia four days later at Austin, Texas, and close first-round play in Group D against Haiti on June 22 at Arlington, Texas. CONCACAF announced the match schedule on Friday, a day after the … Read more
Éliot Grondin didn’t let up after securing the men’s snowboard cross overall World Cup season title. About 24 hours later, the Sainte-Marie, Que., native defeated Frenchman Aidan Chollet in the big final on home snow at Mont-Sainte-Anne on Sunday. Loan Bozzolo, Chollet’s teammate, placed third in the final World Cup event of the season Grondin has back-to-back Crystal … Read more
The Canadian relay team of Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney, and Andre De Grasse ran the 4x100m at the Florida Relays in Gainesville, Fla. on Saturday, winning in 38.09 seconds. The same squad took home gold for Canada at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, finishing in 37.50. De Grasse also won the men’s 200-metre final at the Florida Relays on … Read more
The path of sprinter Kenny Bednarek has been far from easy or conventional. Plenty of uphill climbs, too. His experiences, though — foster care, being adopted, going the community college route, constantly overshadowed — has only added power to his alter ego, “Kung Fu Kenny.” That version of him emerges when he steps on the … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — ChatGPT maker Openai this week announced it raised a whopping $40 billion as it races to dominate a competitive AI landscape against tech giants like Googleand rivals including Anthropic and Chinese upstart DeepSeek. The investment was the highest ever raised for a startup and places OpenAI at a $300-billion valuation, tying it with … Read more
Canadians came away with a pair of medals in the penultimate finals of the World Cup season on Saturday in Idre Fjäll, Sweden. Reece Howden, of Cultus Lake, B.C., won the men’s big final to capture the gold medal. Italy’s Simone Deromedis and Sweden’s Erik Mobaerg won the silver and bronze medals, respectively. The gold was the sixth … Read more
The genetic testing company 23andMe, which holds the genetic data of 15 million peopledeclared bankruptcy on Sunday night after years of financial struggles. This means that all of the extremely personal user data could be up for sale—and that vast trove of genetic data could draw interest from AI companies looking to train their data … Read more
A gold medal at the 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games for 15-year-old Cory Beardy had friends, family and supporters cheering last week. Beardy, a cross-country skier from Shamattawa First Nation who lives in Thompson, Man., won gold for Canada in the 4x1K relay – free technique, with teammates John O’Neil, Sarah McCarthy and Marley Gayler. He took part in multiple … Read more
Clodagh Stenson, Jonathan Eden and William McLennan BBC England Investigations Blenheim Palace The solid gold toilet weighed 98kg (216lbs) and was insured for $6m (£4.8m) In the early hours of 14 September 2019, Eleanor Paice jolted awake to the sound of smashing glass. Living in a staff flat above Blenheim Palace, the guest services supervisor … Read more
