Kyle Balzer

3 weeks ago | vancouverisawesome.com | Kyle Balzer

The Canadian women's national soccer team will play an international friendly in Vancouver this week. On Friday, April 4, the red and white will face Argentina at BC Place. It'll be the first match on Vancouver turf since Christine Sinclair's retirement send-off in December 2023. It'll also mark a homecoming for Vancouver's Julia Grosso, who currently plays for Chicago Stars FC in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).

3 weeks ago | vancouverisawesome.com | Jeremy Hainsworth |Elana Shepert |Daniel Wagner |Kyle Balzer

TORONTO — The fallout of the auto tariffs U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed on vehicle imports is already starting to show as Stellantis pauses production at its Windsor, Ont., assembly plant. The two-week shutdown of the Canadian plant, as well as some Mexican plants, comes as automakers work to figure out how to respond to the 25 per cent U.S. import tariffs that came into effect Thursday.

3 weeks ago | vancouverisawesome.com | Jeremy Hainsworth |Elana Shepert |Daniel Wagner |Kyle Balzer

Paul Maurice has led hundreds of meetings across a long coaching career. The video rolls. There are points of emphasis. Players get their marching orders. Alex Ovechkin became a focus in opposing NHL locker rooms shortly after making his debut in 2005. Not much has changed. Every team knows what's coming when the bulldozing Washington Capitals winger with a bullet one-timer sets up in his "office" — the left faceoff circle — on a power play. There hasn't been an answer in two decades.

3 weeks ago | vancouverisawesome.com | Jeremy Hainsworth |Daniel Wagner |Elana Shepert |Kyle Balzer

MONTREAL — Dollarama Inc. raised its quarterly dividend by 15 per cent as it reported its fourth-quarter profit and sales rose compared with a year ago. The retailer says it will now pay a quarterly dividend of 10.58 cents per share, up from 9.2 cents per share. The increased payment to shareholders came as Dollarama says it earned $391.0 million or $1.40 per diluted share for the quarter ended Feb. 2. The result was up from a profit of $323.8 million or $1.15 per diluted share a year earlier.

3 weeks ago | vancouverisawesome.com | Jeremy Hainsworth |Elana Shepert |Daniel Wagner |Kyle Balzer

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