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Lauren Theisen

Connor Bedard skates toward the net with the puck

Connor Bedard Is Your Shitty Team’s Savior

Ray Ratto

Canada's defender #02 Alistair Johnston (L) reacts after Croatia won the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group F football match between Croatia and Canada at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha on November 27, 2022.

Internationals

Canada’s World Cup Is Already Over

Soraya Roberts

Canadian singer Bryan Adams posing in front of a brick wall. Taken in 1984, in Paris.

Music

Why Is Bryan Adams’s “Summer Of ’69” The Only Song On My Radio?

Toronto Argonauts coach gets the Gatorade shower

The Grey Cup Turned Into A Block Party

Patrick Redford

Tajon Buchanan #11 of Canada celebrates a goal during a 2022 World Cup Qualifying match against Jamaica at BMO Field on March 27, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

At Its Second-Ever World Cup, Canada Is Here To Stay

All Of Canada Shall Tremble Before New Jersey’s Might

Kelsey McKinney

Zillowing Out

A Million-Dollar Home Where We Can Commune With Whales

Women's Hockey

Death, Taxes, And Marie-Philip Poulin Crushing Americans

Canada's players react during the women's preliminary round group A match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games ice hockey competition players of Russia's Olympic Committee and Canada, at the Wukesong Sports Centre in Beijing on February 7, 2022. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Olympics

The Canada-Russia Delay Was A Big, Familiar Clusterfuck

Tom Ley

Soccer

Well That Was Annoying

CALGARY, AB - NOVEMBER 24: Winnipeg Blue Bombers fans and a single Hamilton Tiger-Cats fan rally their team prior to the 107th Grey Cup Championship Game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats during at McMahon Stadium on November 24, 2019 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Derek Leung/Getty Images)

Grey Cup Week Is The Anti-NFL At Its Best

CALGARY, AB - OCTOBER 18: A general view of the exterior of Scotiabank Saddledome as fans arrive and are checked for their Covid vaccinations prior to an NHL game between the Calgary Flames and the Anaheim Ducks on October 18, 2021 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Derek Leung/Getty Images)

Canada Has Better Things To Do Than Go To NHL Games

Luis Paez-Pumar

Jonathan Osorio #10 of Canada celebrates a goal by Tajon Buchanan #11 during a 2022 World Cup Qualifying match against Panama at BMO Field on October 13, 2021 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Canada Is Rising

ST PETERSBURG, FLORIDA - SEPTEMBER 22: Kevin Kiermaier #39 of the Tampa Bay Rays celebrates with teammates after defeating the Toronto Blue Jays 7-1 to clinch a playoff berth at Tropicana Field on September 22, 2021 in St Petersburg, Florida. (Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)

A Well-Timed Tampontreal Gambit Leaves Everyone Pissed

Canada Finally Got One Over On The USWNT

The Ghosts Of 2012 Haunt This Year’s U.S.-Canada Semifinal

Maitreyi Anantharaman

Aleksandra Crvendakic #11 of Team Serbia drives to the basket against Kayla Alexander #14 and Kia Nurse #5 of Team Canada during the first half of the Women's Preliminary Round Group A game on day three of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Saitama Super Arena on July 26, 2021 in Saitama, Japan.

The Canadian Women Might Just End Their Nation’s Basketball Woes

The Montreal Canadiens celebrate their Stanley Cup victory

Canadian Hockey Teams, Ranked By How Much They Deserve To Break The Cup Drought

<p><a href="http://www.ddavisla.com"><span style="font-weight: 400">David Davis </span></a>is the author of <i>Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans From World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation</i> and <i>Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku</i>. He lives in Los Angeles.</p>
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David Davis

Hockey’s Cold War Was The Summit Of Two Photographers’ Careers

Senators Week

Who Was Lady Byng, And What Was Her Deal?

OTTAWA, ON - NOVEMBER 8: Members of the Ottawa Senators stand as a large Canadian flag is passed along in the stands during the singing of the national anthem prior to an NHL game against the Winnipeg Jets at Canadian Tire Centre on November 8, 2014 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Jana Chytilova/Freestyle Photography/Getty Images) *** Local Caption ***