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Canada’s women’s basketball team won the inaugural GLOBL JAM championship, held this year in Toronto, defeating Team France 78-60 in the finals on the afternoon of Sunday, Jul. 10, 2022. Kingston’s Aaliyah Edwards celebrated a personal victory as well, taking home the tournament’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) award. “It feels
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A 27-year-old Yarker man is set to hit the Olympic bobsleigh run in Bejing, and his mother couldn’t possibly be more excited. Liz Shibley, the mother of Jay Dearborn, speaks on the phone from her home in Yarker and the joy is palpable as she recounts a recent trip to
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Kingston’s two-time Paralympian swimmer, Abi Tripp, is deep into her psychology classes at Laval University, but memories of her Tokyo Paralympic race on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 still fill her with joy, even though she was disqualified from the women’s 100 metre breaststroke. Tripp handled the disqualification with grace, saying,
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Britt Benn is a force to be reckoned with both on and off the field, says her aunt and supporter, Ange Benn. “She’s just been a very determined girl her whole life. And she’s always strived for big things and she made them come true when she made the last
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Kingston Y Penguins swimmer Abi Tripp will be heading to the Paralympic Games in Tokyo this fall as one of about 19 members of Team Canada’s swim team. “Representing Canada is something that not everybody gets the chance to do — it’s incredible and so special. We’re all excited to
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It was a dominant victory for Brad Gushue Sunday night at the Leon’s Centre, as his Newfoundland rink beat Alberta’s Brendan Bottcher 7-3 to claim the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier. The win marks Gushue’s third Brier title in just four years, after the Newfoundland skip won the event back in
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Kevin Koe’s run as Team Canada at the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier came to an end Saturday morning, as his rink fell 8-3 in a tiebreaker against Brad Jacobs. Team Canada finished the championship round with a record of 7-4, which placed them in a four-way tie for the last
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Team Alberta’s Brendan Bottcher, in just his fourth appearance at the Tim Hortons Brier, knows what it takes to contend for a national men’s championship. Bottcher’s Edmonton-based rink has finished runners-up at the last two consecutive Briers. In 2018, the foursome lost to defending champion Brad Gushue, and last year
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Kevin Koe arrives at this year’s Tim Hortons Brier as the defending champion. Last year, in Brandon Manitoba, the Alberta skip won his fourth national championship, earning him a direct berth into this year’s event. In Kingston, the 45-year-old skip will swap his familiar Alberta jersey for a Team Canada
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Kingston has been talking about it and preparing for it for well over a year, and today, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, we can finally say it’s here – The 2020 Tim Hortons Brier begins today. Anyone in the downtown core is sure to notice the Brier is upon us. From
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For local student Hannah Lee, 2019 was a really exciting year, and now, just one month into the year, 2020 is shaping up to be even more exciting. Lee, a first-year Royal Military College (RMC) cadet, has been a celebrated taekwondo athlete during her entire time at the school. The
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Twenty-four-year-old Lindsay Agnew is a fullback on the Canadian Women’s soccer team currently competing at the 2019 FIFA World Cup. While she grew up in Ohio and currently plays as a defender for the Houston Dash, Agnew was born in and has ties to Kingston. Her father, Gary Agnew,
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