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SYDNEY, N.S. — The Canadian team's numbers speak for themselves at the world women's curling championship this week. A stellar 11-1 round-robin record. An overall shooting percentage of 88.4 per cent.

FREDERICTON — Kadriana and Colton Lott defeated Laura Walker and Kirk Muyres 7-5 on Friday to capture the gold medal at the Canadian mixed doubles curling championship. The Winnipeg-based Lotts scored twice in the seventh end to take a 6-5 advantage.

TULSA, Okla. — Chris Johnston is the top Canadian following Friday's first round of the US$1-million Bassmaster Classic. Johnston, of Peterborough, Ont., brought in a five-fish limit weighing 15 pounds two ounces on Grand Lake O the Cherokees.

WINNIPEG — Families of two slain First Nations women received word Friday that the federal and Manitoba governments are putting up $20 million each to help search a landfill for the women's remains.

BELFAST, United Kingdom — Bellator featherweight champion Patricio (Pitbull) Freire stopped Canadian Jeremy (JСÀ¶ÊÓƵ) Kennedy with a flurry of blows in the third round Friday in the Bellator Champions Series. The 31-year-old from Surrey, СÀ¶ÊÓƵ

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Canada's Cynthia Appiah captured a bronze medal Friday in a World Cup women's monobob event. Appiah, of Toronto, posted a two-run time of one minute 59.13 seconds for her first medal of the World Cup monobob season.

Canadians are wishing the Princess of Wales a speedy recovery after she announced she has cancer.

TORONTO — A pilot project that allowed Torontonians to sip on beer, wine and other booze at select parks for a few months last year was a success and can safely become a permanent fixture if council votes in favour of it, according to a city report.

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province has stepped in to pay an outstanding $25,000 bill to a hotel where a social services agency dispatched patients in post-hospital recovery.

TORONTO — Auston Matthews and Connor McDavid have grown closer off the ice. The star centres sometimes skate together in the summer and now share the same agent. They also possess unique perspectives on what the other deals with as a face of the NHL.