As the notes of the beloved Universal Fanfare played, Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabaté appeared to panic. His arms flailed and a left foot stretched out, immediately wobbling. That was a bad idea. Read More

School shootings are the most senseless, shattering event that can befall a community. A feeling of ultimate loss grips the entire nation. Read More

When Marc Kennedy was a young curler, Canada’s mission statement was simple: Gold or bust.  Read More

MILAN — Nathan MacKinnon is a Stanley Cup champion, so the idea that maybe he's a little too dialed up is a bit of a hard one to take seriously. Read More

MILAN — Every single job at the Milan-Cortina Games is important. Read More

The International Olympic Committee should know better than to think an athlete who throws himself down an icy track at 140 km/h would back down over a threat. Read More

The Norwegian biathlete who inadvertently stole the spotlight from his gold medal-winning teammate by making an on-air admission of infidelity has apologized to his fellow countryman and ex-girlfriend for airing the personal drama. Read More

Tuesday “started as any other” for Tumbler Ridge, B.C, mom Cia Edmonds, but within hours she was sitting in the Vancouver children’s hospital with her 12-year-old daughter, Maya, “fighting for her life” due to gunshot injuries to her head and neck. Read More

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Tumbler Ridge will never be the same. Read More

World leaders are reacting in shock and sympathy to one of Canada's deadliest school shootings. Nine people were killed and at least 25 more injured after the shooting in the community of Tumbler Ridge in eastern British Columbia on Tuesday. Read More

Yiannis Exarchos, the chief executive of Olympic Broadcasting Services, sat at the centre of the dais while a short video played on the big screen over his shoulder. It was filled with highlights of the most unexpected star of the Milan-Cortina Games: The drones. Read More

MILAN — There were too many moments that went horribly wrong in the worst Canadian women's hockey loss in Olympic history to easily digest the magnitude of what had happened. Read More

OTTAWA — An emotional Prime Minister Mark Carney said it's a "time to come together as Canadians always do" to mourn as a nation after a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.left 10 dead, including the suspect. Read More

So you thought curling was Canada's game? Calgary writer and comedian John Cullen, a semi-professional curler for more than 20 years, explains how a former U.S. football star and his buddies are helping popularize the sport, in this excerpt from Curling Rocks! Chronicles of the Roaring Game. Read More

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Canada’s contingent at the Milan-Cortina Games is loaded with decorated athletes in the twilight of storied Olympic careers: Sidney Crosby, speedskater Ted-Jan Bloemen; a Golden generation of curlers vying to go out on a high note. Read More

Universities clearly have a “trust deficit.” From left to right, faith in higher education has cratered as the search for evidence-based knowledge has been replaced with McCarthyite pursuits and litmus tests. By serving as platforms for pseudo-academic ideological campaigns, universities have surrendered their core credibility. Read More

Canada has a productivity problem. And it’s not a small one. Read More

Laura Cooper (not her real name) headed to Edmonton International Airport on Sunday with the intention of travelling to the East Coast of the U.S. to work for four days. Read More

By the time repeat violent offender Oral Carver Lewis threatened to kill an Ontario Crown prosecutor, he had already been under a deportation order for two years. Read More

MILAN - Players working on collecting pucks off boards is not unusual. The same cannot be said of the main rink at the Milan-Cortina Games, where the furious rush to complete construction meant there has been precious little time for anyone to learn how the playing surface might behave in a game. Read More

By entering into negotiations with Ottawa, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has tacitly conceded that it needs news content and that it is valuable for Meta. You might think that, having conceded this, Meta would do what normal companies do and pay for this vital input to its business. Instead, Meta appears to be actively lobbying the Government of Canada to gut the Online News Act so that it can reinstate news on its services without having to pay for it. Having Canadian news back on Meta would be good, but not at the cost of massively damaging Canadian journalism. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to block a new bridge from Detroit to Canada followed a meeting between his commerce secretary and a billionaire who owns an existing border-crossing bridge just miles from the new span, according to two people familiar with the matter. Read More

What is your favourite Marie-Philip Poulin moment? Read More