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Canada won gold in the women’s 4×50-metre freestyle relay, then took silver in the 4×100 medley relay on Sunday night at the FINA short-course world swimming championships, giving breakout Olympic star Penny Oleksiak her third and fourth medals of the meet. The 4×50 team of Toronto’s Oleksiak and Michelle Williams, Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, B.C., and Sandrine Mainville of Boucherville, Que., finished first in one minute 35 seconds. The …

Winner Maria Rincon (C), first runner-up Prenda Wang (L) and second runner-up Sherry Xue pose for photos during the Miss Chinese Vancouver Pageant in Vancouver, Canada, Dec. 8, 2016. 22-year-old contestant Maria Rincon was crowned as winner for 2016 Miss Chinese Vancouver. Contestants perform on stage during the Miss Chinese …

Tuesday, 29 November 2016 OTTAWA: A Lincoln MKZ sedan dubbed Autonomoose and two other self-driving vehicles hit the road in Canada on Nov 28 in the country’s first test of the technology on public roads.  Ontario is one of the top jurisdictions in North America for auto assembly and the …

Monday, 2 October 2017 :  A team of investigators and engineers headed to Canada today to inspect an Airbus A380 superjumbo operated by Air France which was forced to make an emergency landing after an engine explosion. The double-decker aircraft carrying 496 passengers and 24 crew had taken off from Paris …

Monday, 11 September 2017 :  Canada has become the latest country to introduce a gender neutral ‘X’ option on passports Canadians can now identify as gender neutral on passports after a third gender ‘X’ option was introduced to the application process on 31 August. The Canadian government says it hopes …

Saturday, 1 July 2017   Canada will keep troops in Iraq until 2019, at the very minimum, to “advise and assist” in the fight against Daesh. The announcement comes as multiple reports suggest Daesh’s influence in the region is dwindling by the day. Daesh’s top leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was …

Saturday, 1 July 2017 INRS physicists managed to create the first silicon chip that can be used to both store and manipulate high-dimensional qubits – units of quantum information – which may help simplify the architecture of quantum computers, according to a study published in Nature, a top US scientific journal. Qubits act as memory cells …

Friday, 12 May 2017 OTTAWA – David Vigneault, an advisor on security matters to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, will take over as head of Canada’s spy agency next month following the current director’s previously announced retirement, the government said on Thursday. Vigneault is currently assistant secretary to cabinet advising …

Wednesday, 12th April 2017: Families in Vancouver are mourning the loss of 5 South Korean hikers whose bodies have been recovered from the north face of Mount Harvey in Canada. The bodies of Yong Jun Sohn, Chung Ki Soo, Myung Sung Soo, Kim Ran Hee and Sandul Baram have been recovered …

Tuesday, 11 April 2017 :  The United States, Mexico and Canada will make a joint bid to host the 2026 World Cup, top football officials from the three nations announced on Monday. No nation from CONCACAF, the governing body for football in North and Central America and the Caribbean, has …