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SANTIAGO, Chile — Canada's Ethan Katzberg has struck gold once more in the men's hammer throw at the Pan American Games on Saturday. The 21-year-old from Nanaimo, B.C., set a Pan Am Games record with a throw of 80.96 metres to emerge as champion.

LAVAL, Que. — Canadian skaters won five medals during Saturday's opening day of the ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships at Place Bell. Steven Dubois of Lachenaie, Que., was crowned 500-metre champion, sprinting to a gold medal in 40.

A breakdown in contract negotiations has prompted plans by Rogers Communication Inc. to lock out nearly 300 former Shaw technicians on Monday after the union issued a 72-hour notice of workers' intent to walk off the job.

VANCOUVER — Mushrooms large and small, tasty and toxic, are popping up across British Columbia this year in what experts say is a bumper season for fungi. B.C.

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Marathon women's record, which has stood for 20 years, could go down Sunday with one of the strongest fields assembled in the history of the race.

OTTAWA — The head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service told employees he stood by the spy agency's handling of sensitive information following a "troubling" leak of classified material, a newly released memo shows. In a Feb.

EDMONTON — Jason Camlot was chatting with his new boss in the English department of Montreal's Concordia University in 1999 when he spotted a dusty cardboard box of 80 reel-to-reel tapes in a corner of the department head's office. He asked about it.

Protesters voicing support for residents of the Gaza Strip gathered at rallies in more than two dozen cities across Canada on Saturday, calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict after war broke out last month.

TORONTO — Sheldon Keefe wasn't impressed. Ryan Reaves added the situation was discussed internally.

LONDON, Ont. — The top-ranked Western Mustangs are back in the Yates Cup for the eighth straight year. Western defeated the Queen's Gaels 47-20 on Saturday to book its ticket into the Ontario University Athletics football championship game.