Tag: nationals

  • Alaine Chartrand shocks, wins women’s figure skating title at nationals

    Alaine Chartrand shocks, wins women’s figure skating title at nationals

    [ad_1] Alaine Chartrand captured gold in women’s singles at the Canadian figure skating championships, while Gabrielle Daleman dropped to fifth place. Chartrand says the victory was redemption after a heartbreaking season that saw her miss the Pyeongchang Olympic team by a narrow margin. The 22-year-old from Prescott, Ont., skated a clean program to music from…

  • Gabrielle Daleman leads women after short program at skate nationals

    Gabrielle Daleman leads women after short program at skate nationals

    [ad_1] Gabrielle Daleman is the leader after the short program at the Canadian figure skating championships, her first event since taking a break to focus on her mental health. The 21-year-old from Newmarket, Ont., scored 70.18 points for her program to Habanera, by Georges Bizet. The 2017 world bronze medallist and two-time Canadian champion announced in…

  • DOJ charges Chinese nationals for ‘extensive’ global hacking campaign

    DOJ charges Chinese nationals for ‘extensive’ global hacking campaign

    [ad_1] Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein listens as US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh attends the first day of his confirmation hearing in front of the US Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, on September 4, 2018.  The Justice Department on Thursday announced charges against Chinese nationals…

  • Benfeito, Imbeau-Dulac stand tall at diving winter nationals

    Benfeito, Imbeau-Dulac stand tall at diving winter nationals

    [ad_1] Meaghan Benfeito survived a mistake on her final dive to win the women’s 10-metre event, and Francois Imbeau-Dulac’s consistency’s carried him to victory in the men’s three-metre final at the winter nationals diving competition on Sunday. Imbeau-Dulac, of St-Lazare, Que., posted 476.65 points to finish ahead of Philippe Gagne of Montreal at 440.05 and…

  • Nationals MP resigns after ‘sugar baby’ claims

    Nationals MP resigns after ‘sugar baby’ claims

    [ad_1] Nationals MP Andrew Broad has resigned from his position as Assistant Minister to the Deputy Prime Minister following claims he had a “sugar baby”. Nationals leader Michael McCormack issued a statement thanking Mr Broad for his service and said the resignation was appropriate due to the nature of the allegations made. He also stressed…

  • Abel, Riendeau earn individual golds at winter nationals

    Abel, Riendeau earn individual golds at winter nationals

    [ad_1] Vincent Riendeau won the men’s 10-metre event, while Jennifer Abel posted a decisive victory in the women’s three-metre on Saturday at the winter nationals diving competition in Victoria. Riendeau, from Pointe-Claire, Que., scored 486.50 points to finish ahead of Victoria’s Bryden Hattie (460.10) and Nathan Zsombor-Murray of Pointe-Claire, Que., (417.10). Riendeau, a 2016 Olympian,…

  • Canadians Masse, Wog top podium on final night of U.S. Nationals

    Canadians Masse, Wog top podium on final night of U.S. Nationals

    [ad_1] Kylie Masse and Kelsey Wog struck gold on the final day of the U.S. Winter National Championships at the Greensboro Aquatic Centre in North Carolina. Masse won the 200-metre backstroke touching in at two minutes, 9.92 seconds. “I just wanted to put together a good race and see where I’m at,” said Masse, 22. “I…

  • ISIS took 700 hostages in Syria including US nationals

    ISIS took 700 hostages in Syria including US nationals

    [ad_1] AMERICA has blasted claims by Vladimir Putin that ISIS has taken hundreds of people hostage in Syria and will execute ten of those hostages each day. According to The Sun, Mr Putin said the jihadi group had taken almost 700 people from a camp in the war-torn nation, including several European and US Nationals.…

  • Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer reaches 300 strikeouts for season

    Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer reaches 300 strikeouts for season

    [ad_1] Nationals right-hander Max Scherzer has become the 17th major league pitcher since 1900 to strike out at least 300 batters in a season. Scherzer reached the milestone by getting Austin Dean of the Miami Marlins to whiff on an 85 mph slider for the second out of the seventh inning Tuesday night. That was…

  • Nationals give Murphy, Adams shot at playoffs in separate deals with Cubs, Cards

    Nationals give Murphy, Adams shot at playoffs in separate deals with Cubs, Cards

    [ad_1] The Washington Nationals have traded second baseman Daniel Murphy to the Chicago Cubs and first baseman Matt Adams to the St. Louis Cardinals, essentially throwing in the towel on a disappointing season. The third-place Nationals announced the moves Tuesday before beginning a three-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies. Despite a roster that boasts such…

  • Humbled by nationals, Brandon McBride bounces back with 800m gold at NACAC

    Humbled by nationals, Brandon McBride bounces back with 800m gold at NACAC

    [ad_1] TORONTO — Brandon McBride always reminds himself that anyone can lose on any given day. It keeps the Canadian middle-distance runner grounded and focused on the hard work needed to reach the sport’s pinnacle. The Windsor, Ont., native experienced that firsthand when he was upset by Edmonton’s Marco Arop at last month’s Canadian championships…

  • Gosselin-Paradis’ steady performance earns him gold at Canadian diving nationals

    Gosselin-Paradis’ steady performance earns him gold at Canadian diving nationals

    [ad_1] Laurent Gosselin-Paradis showed once again that consistency is the name of the game in competitive diving on Sunday as he won the men’s 10-metre tower at the 2018 Speedo Summer Nationals. Gosselin-Paradis, of Montreal, averaged 8.0 on his first three dives and slightly lower on his last three to place first with 424.00 points. Victoria’s Bryden Hattie…

  • Montreal divers open summer nationals with victories

    Montreal divers open summer nationals with victories

    [ad_1] Montreal’s Peter Thach Mai and Éloise Bélanger opened the 2018 summer senior national diving championships with victories in men’s three-metre and women’s one-metre respectively, on Friday in Gatineau, Que. ​Thach Mai earned 8.5’s and 9.0’s on his reverse dive en route to the gold with 433.05 points. Victor Povzner of Maple, Ont., took silver…

  • Nationals set team scoring record in 25-4 rout of Mets

    Nationals set team scoring record in 25-4 rout of Mets

    [ad_1] In the highest-scoring game in franchise history, Daniel Murphy hit two early home runs and the Washington Nationals kept pouring it on against emergency reliever Jose Reyes and the New York Mets in a 25-4 rout Tuesday night. Trea Turner, who apologized before the game to his teammates for homophobic and racially insensitive tweets…

  • Caleb Dressel wins 1st event at U.S swim nationals

    Caleb Dressel wins 1st event at U.S swim nationals

    [ad_1] Caeleb Dressel bounced back from a clunker of a swim in the 100-meter freestyle and won for the first time in three events at the U.S. national championships, taking the 100 butterfly Friday night to earn a berth on the team for the Pan Pacific championships. Dressel, winner of seven golds at last year’s…

  • Canada beats Iroquois Nationals at world lacrosse championship

    Canada beats Iroquois Nationals at world lacrosse championship

    [ad_1] Wesley Berg and Mark Cockerton both had two goals and an assist as Canada rebounded from its first loss of the world lacrosse championship in Netanya, Israel with a 10-5 win over the Iroquois Nationals on Monday. Curtis Dickson and Ben McIntosh also scored twice for the defending champion Canadians (3-1), who were coming…

  • Mohammed Ahmed pulls away to win 5,000m at track nationals

    Mohammed Ahmed pulls away to win 5,000m at track nationals

    [ad_1] Fierce competitors on the track. Great friends off it. And part of the greatest crop of distance runners Canada has ever produced. And, they hope, a terrific influence to young Canadian runners coming up behind them. Mohammed Ahmed, Justyn Knight, and Ben Flanagan finished 1-2-3 in the men’s 5,000 metres at the Canadian championships on Thursday…

  • De Grasse-Brown 100m showdown adds intrigue to track and field nationals

    De Grasse-Brown 100m showdown adds intrigue to track and field nationals

    [ad_1] Expect three-time defending champion Andre De Grasse to feel the heat in Friday’s 100-metre final at the Canadian track and field championships. While the recent soaring temperatures in Ottawa will have subsided when De Grasse settles in the starting block about 9:30 p.m. ET, some of the more notable sprinters in the eight-man field are…

  • Pole vaulter Shawn Barber aims to top his meet record, defend title at nationals

    Pole vaulter Shawn Barber aims to top his meet record, defend title at nationals

    [ad_1] Pole vaulter Shawn Barber is in position to break his meet record at this weekend’s Canadian track and field championships, according to his coach, despite mixed results this season on the Diamond League circuit. Jeff Hartwig says the defending champion has overcome his struggles with consistency from a year ago, noting the 24-year-old Barber has met…

  • Blue Jays hit back-to-back homers in 8th to sweep Nationals

    Blue Jays hit back-to-back homers in 8th to sweep Nationals

    [ad_1] Teoscar Hernandez and Yangervis Solarte broke a tie with back-to-back home runs in the eighth inning, Randal Grichuk added a pair of solo homers and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Washington Nationals 8-6 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep. Hernandez showed no ill effects from being hit by a pitch earlier in…

  • Estrada outduels Scherzer as Jays top Nationals

    Estrada outduels Scherzer as Jays top Nationals

    [ad_1] Devon Travis had some experience with Max Scherzer after facing him in spring training years ago. He knew heading into Saturday’s game how deadly Scherzer’s stuff can be. And he was ready for it. Travis hit a two-run homer off the Nationals ace, backing a solid start from Marco Estrada, as the Toronto Blue…

  • Solarte’s big night helps Jays fend off Nationals

    Solarte’s big night helps Jays fend off Nationals

    [ad_1] Yangervis Solarte hit a pair of homers, including a two-run shot in the seventh inning as the Toronto Blue Jays held off the Washington Nationals 6-5 on Friday night. The switch-hitting Solarte became only the ninth Blue Jays player to homer from both sides of the plate. Devon Travis also hit a home run…

  • Ottawa expands program to collect fingerprints, photos from foreign nationals coming to Canada

    Ottawa expands program to collect fingerprints, photos from foreign nationals coming to Canada

    [ad_1] Canada is expanding a program to collect biometric data — including fingerprints — from foreign nationals coming to this country, while experts are warning of the potential for heightened risks to privacy. The expanded biometrics program will be rolled out over two years, beginning next month, with new requirements to collect biometric data from people from Europe, the Middle East…

  • Watch the 2018 Volleyball Canada Youth Nationals

    Watch the 2018 Volleyball Canada Youth Nationals

    [ad_1] Comments To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada’s online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part,…

  • Youth duo stealing the show at mixed doubles curling nationals

    Youth duo stealing the show at mixed doubles curling nationals

    [ad_1] A 23-year-old and an 18-year-old are stealing the show at the mixed doubles national championship in Leduc, Alta. Colton Lott, 23, and partner Kadriana Sahaidak, 18, are still the only undefeated team at the event and have punched their ticket into a semifinal game. They defeated Kalynn Park and Charley Thomas on Saturday night.…

  • Big names abound as mixed doubles curling nationals kick off in Alberta

    Big names abound as mixed doubles curling nationals kick off in Alberta

    [ad_1] LEDUC, Alta. — In just a couple of months, mixed doubles curling has gone from being an unknown quantity for Canadian curling fans to the talk of the sport — especially among some of the best in the game. “It’s been pretty special,” said two-time world champ Jeff Stoughton. “The reception was more than could be expected. Anyone I…

  • Hometown heroes: Brother-sister duo leads U of Alberta sweep of curling nationals

    Hometown heroes: Brother-sister duo leads U of Alberta sweep of curling nationals

    [ad_1] LEDUC, ALTA. — It had been everything Selena and Karsten Sturmay dreamed about while growing up in Leduc — playing in a national curling championship to earn the right to wear the maple leaf at an international event. Within minutes of each other inside the Leduc Recreation Centre on Wednesday afternoon, the hometown curling siblings realized their dreams. …

  • Barnaby Joyce to resign? Nationals leader tipped to step down

    Barnaby Joyce to resign? Nationals leader tipped to step down

    [ad_1] AFTER a tumultuous month for the Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce is tipped to step down as Nationals leader in an imminent press conference. The announcement in Armidale is expected at 2pm (AEST) and news.com.au understands the scandal-struck politician is set to announce his resignation. Pressure has been mounting on Mr Joyce ever since…

  • Wall Street pares gains after U.S. indicts Russian nationals, entities

    Wall Street pares gains after U.S. indicts Russian nationals, entities

    [ad_1] (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rose for a sixth straight session on Friday, putting the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq on course for their best week in more than six years, strengthening Wall Street’s pullback after a brutal selloff earlier this month. The markets gave up a chunk of the gains after U.S. Special Counsel…

  • 13 Russian nationals charged in Mueller investigation

    13 Russian nationals charged in Mueller investigation

    [ad_1] Thirteen Russians and three Russian entities have been charged in what is being called an elaborate plot to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, federal prosecutors announced Friday. The indictment, brought by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, alleges Russians used bogus social media postings and advertisements fraudulently purchased in the name of…