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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia -- Canada won its eighth women's world hockey championship last night, beating the United States, 2-0. Hayley Wickenheiser and Delaney Collins scored for Canada, which has beaten the United States in all eight finals since the tournament began in 1990. Canada has lost only one game in tournament history, falling, 3-1, to the Americans last Saturday. Kim St. Pierre made 24 saves for Canada. Wickenheiser opened the scoring at 4:17 of the second period, taking a drop pass from Danielle Goyette and beating goalie Pam Dreyer with a high shot.

ATLANTIC CITY - Authorities investigating the stabbing deaths of two Canadian tourists during a mugging said Wednesday that the victims were a 47-year-old woman and her 80-year-old mother, who tried to aid her. Po Lin Wan and her daughter Alice Mei See Leung, both from the Scarborough section of Toronto, were killed by a Philadelphia woman across the street from Bally's Atlantic City, the Atlantic County prosecutor's office said. The office also corrected a chronology of the attack it initially released Tuesday night.

KAPALUA, Hawaii - Kapalua might consider changing its logo to a Maple Leaf this week. Mike Weir of Canada, who only 10 weeks ago qualified for the winners-only Mercedes-Benz Championship with his first victory in more than three years, made an 18-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 6-under-par 67 (8-under 138) yesterday for a one-shot lead over Stephen Ames and Jonathan Byrd (69). Ames, the only player in the field who actually lives in Canada, fixed a flaw in his putting stroke and also shot 67, making birdie on three of his last five holes despite missing a 6-footer along the way. ...

A Pennsylvania woman fatally stabbed two Canadian tourists, one of them an 80-year-old woman, during a botched robbery Monday in what apparently was a chance meeting on an Atlantic City street, authorities said. Sgt. Monica McMenamin, a city police spokeswoman, said Antoinette E. Pelzer, 44, of Philadelphia, was arrested around 10 a.m., just moments after the robbery occurred in the southern New Jersey resort community. Authorities said she may have recently moved to the Atlantic City area, but that remained unclear late Monday night.

PLAYA DE CARMEN, Mexico — A powerful explosion that killed five Canadian tourists and two Mexican workers at a resort hotel on Mexico’s posh Riviera Maya was apparently caused by a buildup of gas from a nearby swamp, authorities said. The blast Sunday at the 676-room Grand Riviera Princess hotel in Playa del Carmen, south of Cancun, blew out windows and ceiling panels, and hurled paving stones and chunks of metal 50 yards onto the palm-fringed lawn of the compound. Five Canadian tourists were killed, said Francisco Alor, attorney general of Quintana Roo state,...

TORONTO - From screaming babies to frail seniors, Canadian-born or recent immigrants, the patients flow continuously through the waiting room of Dr. Kamini Kambli’s clinic. Most have made their appointments that day. None will receive a bill. The receptionist swipes their ID to verify their eligibility as Ontario residents for coverage under Canada’s universal health care system. Kambli’s family medical practice will be reimbursed by the government. Canada’s system is called Medicare, and is much like Medicare in the United States for over-65-year-olds, except that...

Erik Guay won for the first time on the World Cup circuit yesterday to give Canada its first downhill victory in 13 years. He was joined in the top 10 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, by two other Canadians -- Jan Hudec (fifth) and Manuel Osborne-Paradis (seventh). "This is super stuff," Guay said. "There will be a huge party. " The previous Canadian to win a downhill was Cary Mullen in Aspen, Colo., in 1994. Guay was timed in 1 minute 56.80 seconds on the Kandahar course, one of the most demanding on the circuit.

MONTPELIER -- Over the last few weeks, Quebec Provincial Police officers have been directing traffic to keep side roads open just north of the main US border station in Derby Line. Some days, motorists have had to wait hours to reach the US border station, while those entering Canada have not had any delay. At other times, scores of cars could be lined up waiting to go from one country to the other. "During July, there are two or three weeks when we have to send officers over there every day," said Sergeant Erick Labrie of the Quebec Provincial Police office in...

SEATTLE -- Got the blue-state blues? Rudi Kischer feels your pain. The immigration lawyer in Vancouver, British Columbia, plans seminars in three US cities -- Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles -- to tell Americans frustrated with President Bush's reelection that the grass is greener north of the border. And that is not an allusion to Canada's more-lenient marijuana laws. "We started last year getting a lot of calls from Americans dissatisfied with the way the country is going," Kischer said.

ATLANTA -- You can add Canadians to the list of foreigners who are healthier than Americans. Americans are more likely than Canadians to have diabetes, high blood pressure, and arthritis, according to a Harvard Medical School analysis of a telephone survey of American and Canadian adults. The study comes less than a month after other researchers reported that middle-aged, white Americans are much sicker than their counterparts in England. "We're really falling behind other nations," said Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard and a...

NORTH ADAMS — Denise Markonish grew up in Brockton and still lives in Massachusetts. She is a curator at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. She is, in other words, a local. But Markonish has a treacherous heart. For she has fallen in love with — oh, surely it can't be! — Canada. And after four years traipsing across that vast country, visiting more than 400 artist studios in search of the best in contemporary art, she finds herself in the unusual position of being an American-born ambassador for Canadian art. Opening on May 27, Markonish...

The winds blowing through Canada's broad St. Lawrence Valley and across Vermont's hilltops are stirring up an international tempest over which country's laws should govern how those breezes are harnessed for electricity. Some residents of the Quebec town of Stanstead are upset about plans in Vermont to erect just south of the border two industrial-size wind turbines — one of which would be about 1,000 feet from a few Canadian and Vermont homes. Quebec requires wind turbines to be at least 1,640 feet from homes, and the Canadian homeowners are demanding those...

KANANASKIS VILLAGE, Alberta — Less than an hour's drive from Calgary, the serrated ridges of the Canadian Rockies started to take shape. We took the turn-off for Kananaskis Country, "the playground of the locals," said our guide, Marcy Lee McLellan, and peered up at snow-capped Mount Kidd and Mount Allen. Around another bend the rapids of the Kananaskis River appeared through the thicket of lodgepole pines. After spotting a...

The 2013 Canadian Women's Open will be played at Royal Mayfair in Edmonton, the site of Lorena Ochoa's victory in the 2007 tournament. The LPGA Tour event is scheduled for Aug. 22-25. The 2012 tournament will be played at Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam, British Columbia, on Aug. 23-26.

The expanded Women's World Cup in 2015 will be played in six Canadian cities: Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Moncton. FIFA President Sepp Blatter announced the sites Friday on Parliament Hill for what will be the largest single sports event for women. The tournament set to increase from 16 to 24 countries and from 32 to 52 matches. Sixteen teams competed in the 2011 World Cup in Germany. The federal government has committed up to $15 million to the tournament.

The only Canadian on death row in the United States is asking the Montana Parole Board to instead let him live the rest of his life in prison. Ronald A. Smith of Red Deer, Alberta, was sentenced to death in 1983, seven months after he marched cousins Harvey Mad Man, 23, and Thomas Running Rabbit, 20, into the woods just off U.S. 2 near Marias Pass and shot them both in the head with a .22-caliber rifle. They had picked up Smith, who was partying his way around northern Montana with some friends.

British writer Julian Barnes won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction yesterday for his novel "The Sense of an Ending. " Judges announced the winner of the 50,000-pound ($82,000) award at a ceremony in London. Barnes, 65, who had been a finalist three times before but had never won, beat British writers Stephen Kelman and Carol Birch and Canadians Esi Edugyan and Patrick deWitt . Close "You just want to get your nails done with her and you want to make out with her at the same time.

SALTILLO, Mexico - A drunken driver lost control of his tractor-trailer and slammed into a bus carrying Canadians and Americans touring northern Mexico, killing 11, officials said yesterday. Seven Americans, three Canadians, and the Mexican bus driver were killed, said Jose Angel Herrera, a federal homicide detective in northern Coahuila state. The US Embassy has confirmed the identities of four of the Americans, said embassy spokeswoman Liz Detter. Todd Huizinga, a spokesman for the US consulate in the nearby city of Monterrey, said nine Americans were injured and...

Dassault Systèmes, a French company with a big presence in Massachusetts, said Thursday that it has agreed to buy Gemcom Software International for $360 million in US dollars. Dassault Systèmes specializes in 3D design and product lifecycle management software. Based in Vancouver, Gemcom makes software for the mining industry. "Advanced technologies in 3D modeling and simulation will not only enable engineers and geologists to model and visualize resources but also improve sustainable mine productivity," Rick Moignard, Gemcom's president and chief...

The Quebec government withdrew its offer Thursday to resume talks with university student leaders following the arrests of 85 people during riotous protests by thousands in Montreal over planned tuition hikes. Windows of local businesses, banks and cars — as well as a police station — were smashed after talks broke off Wednesday between the provincial government and student groups over the planned tuition increase of $325 a year. Some protesters fought with police. Three police officers were injured.