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UTICA, N.Y. — Haley Winn scored twice while Hilary Knight had a goal and two assists, and the United States opened its title defence with a 4-0 win over Switzerland at the 2024 world women's hockey championship on Wednesday.

TORONTO — Auston Matthews climbed another rung in his pursuit of 70 goals. The Maple Leafs, however, will have to wait a little longer to secure a spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs for an eighth straight season.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Justin Gill, Isaac Dufort and Justin Poirier each scored twice as the Baie Comeau Drakkar thumped the Charlottetown Islanders 7-1 to complete a first-round sweep on Wednesday night in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League playoffs

MONTREAL — Swimming Canada is searching for a new site for the Olympic and Paralympic trials due to an extended closure of Montreal's Olympic pool.

ZEBALLOS, СÀ¶ÊÓƵ — Plans are now underway to airlift a stranded killer whale calf out of a remote tidal lagoon off northern Vancouver Island in an effort to reunite the young orca with its extended family.

VICTORIA — British Columbia has tabled legislation to enact a 20 per cent flipping tax on those who sell their home within the first year of ownership.

VANCOUVER — The mayor of Vancouver says the city is disappointed about the new location of an overdose prevention site in the downtown core.

LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA — A Crown prosecutor said Wednesday that the trial for three men charged over their roles in an Alberta border blockade two years ago has nothing to do with their beliefs or right to protest.

OTTAWA — Canada's national approach to combating foreign interference rather than tackling it on a riding-by-riding basis was unfair to voters, Conservative leader Erin O'Toole told a federal inquiry Wednesday — and he thinks it could even have cost

HALIFAX — A weeks-long strike at a transshipment facility near Halifax is over after union members ratified a three-year collective agreement. More than 230 unionized workers at the CN Autoport facility in Eastern Passage, N.S.