Tournament wrapped Saturday with Canada defeating Finland in OT for gold Tickets for Edmonton’s world junior men’s hockey championship haven’t been a hot commodity this summer and International Ice Hockey Federation officials say the high price of admission, the tournament’s odd timing and a spectre of scandal are to blame for low attendance. The 2022 tournament wrapped Saturday with Canada defeating Finland 3-2 in overtime for the gold medal. While the final was expected to draw the biggest crowd of the tournament so far to Rogers Place, average attendance beforeRead more

Paris 2024 Summer Olympics to feature sport for 1st time When Samuel Cyr took up breakdancing 15 years ago, he never thought he’d be training to represent Canada in the sport at the Olympics. “I was very, very bad at the beginning,” laughed Cyr, now a breaker on the small Canadian national team headed by the non-profit Breaking Canada. Now, with breakdancing making its debut at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, Montrealers like Cyr and other Olympic hopefuls are showcasing their talent at Montreal’s Olympic Park, where one of Canada’s biggest action sports festivals is takingRead more

Transport minister blamed travel chaos on COVID-19 and labour shortage Fatima Sherefa, 17, had a rough night at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Aug. 6. Her flight from Toronto home to Winnipeg had been delayed several times and then, just after midnight, it was cancelled. Sherefa says Air Canada staff didn’t offer hotel accommodation for the night, and instead passed out yoga mats to stranded travellers. Sherefa says she slept that night on one of the mats on the floor of a women’s nursing room at the airport. “It was very terrifying, butRead more

Paramedics say the children were taken to hospital with minor injuries Karen Butting and Bryanne Smart both say they felt the ferry going too fast to properly dock. “I kind of braced myself and we hit the dock,” said Butting, who was riding a Toronto Island ferry Saturday afternoon when it crashed while pulling in to the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal. Butting said the force of the crash caused Smart to topple onto her daughters. “People at the top of the stairs had fallen on everybody on the bottom,” she said. “OurRead more

Woman in her 60s accelerated into crowd at outdoor wedding, say investigators. She is co-operating with police Emergency responders in West Vancouver, B.C., say two people were killed and 10 others were injured after a vehicle drove through the yard of a residence where a wedding party was taking place Saturday. West Vancouver police spokesperson Const. Nicole Braithwaite said that just after 6 p.m. PT a woman in her late 60s driving a vehicle on a shared driveway “accelerated forward and crashed into multiple individuals who were attending a wedding.” She did not sayRead more