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Summer McIntosh bagged her third world record in days on Wednesday, clocking 4min 23.65sec to better her own 400 medley record at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Victoria.The 18-year-old Canadian prodigy, a three-time Olympic gold medallist, laid down another impressive marker ahead of next month’s World Championships in Singapore with a dominant performance.McIntosh’s blistering time …

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Residents of a town near Vancouver were on stand-by to evacuate Wednesday as Canada’s devastating wildfire season worsened, with officials warning weather conditions through the summer were ripe for further blazes. A state of emergency has been declared in Squamish, British Columbia, just 64 kilometres (40 miles) north of Vancouver, a city where the greater metropolitan …

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Residents of a town near Vancouver were on stand-by to evacuate Wednesday as Canada’s devastating wildfire season worsened, with officials warning weather conditions through the summer were ripe for further blazes. A state of emergency has been declared in Squamish, British Columbia, just 64 kilometres (40 miles) north of Vancouver, a city where the greater metropolitan …

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Niagara Falls, Canada is often packed with visitors, but hotel rooms in the tourist city are currently occupied by hundreds of people who did not come for sight-seeing. Indigenous Canadians from remote communities thousands of kilometers away have been forced to flee their homes because of raging wildfires and are staying at Niagara Falls hotels. Among them …

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Two years after a historically devastating summer, Canada is once again facing a massive fire season, with burned areas already exceeding year-to-date averages from recent years. More than 220 active fires were burning across the country Tuesday, with half of them considered out of control. More than 3.3 million hectares (12,700 square miles) have already been consumed …

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A Pakistani man was extradited from Canada to the United States on Tuesday to face charges of plotting to carry out an attack on Jews in New York City, the Justice Department said.Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, also known as Shahzeb Jadoon, was arrested in Canada in September.According to a criminal complaint, Khan planned to travel …

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Summer McIntosh smashed the decade-old world record in the women’s 200m individual medley on Monday, touching the wall in 2min 05.70sec for her second record at the Canadian swimming trials.The 18-year-old eclipsed Hungarian Katinka Hosszu’s mark of 2:06.12 set at the 2015 World Championships to become the first woman to duck under 2:06.It was triple …

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The Florida Panthers thrashed the Edmonton Oilers 6-1 in a stormy Stanley Cup Final game-three clash on Monday to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.An ill-tempered battle between the two rivals was punctuated by several brawls in the closing stages as the Oilers’ frustration boiled over.The Panthers and Oilers had fought two nail-biting …

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Canada’s military used aircraft to help evacuate members of a remote Indigenous group Monday as wildfires spread eastward from the Prairies region and into the country’s most populous province Ontario.An airlift of Sandy Lake First Nation members started over the weekend as a 156,346-hectare blaze overwhelmed firefighting efforts and brushed up against the remote Indigenous …

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Canada will reach NATO’s defense spending target of two percent this year, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Monday, arguing the country had to revitalize its military “to defend every inch of our sovereign territory.”Carney’s speech at the University of Toronto included stark warnings about the global security order being shaken by US President Donald Trump. But …

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