Canadian Para cross-country skier Natalie Wilkie wins mass start gold at World Cup season opener
Para cross-country skier Natalie Wilkie put a bow on 2024 with a World Cup victory on Friday at the season-opening stop in Vuokatti, Finland.
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What to watch this weekend and over the holidays
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Kingsbury collects moguls silver medal, halting World Cup win streak at 5
Canadian freestyle skier Mikael Kingsbury's streak of World Cup mogul victories ended at five on Friday.
'If we wish for peace, we have to prepare for war', says Finnish MP for Arctic Circle
But this year in Lapland, the hometown of Santa Claus, NATO held its largest ever artillery exercise. Finland joined NATO in 2023 in direct response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
What to know for the world juniors
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Returning forward Brayden Yager named Canada's captain for world junior tournament
Centre Brayden Yager has been named captain of Canada's team for the upcoming world junior hockey championship.
Which Europeans have better skills in literacy, math and problem-solving?
A new OECD study shows that adults in Finland achieved the highest scores in literacy and numeracy, as well as in adaptive problem-solving.
Hooked on salmon: EU-backed efforts to protect Sweden's threatened wild species
The number of wild salmon in the rivers of northern Sweden goes up and down year to year, it’s notoriously hard to predict. Still, the chance to catch this mighty fish has been attracting anglers from around the world ever since Sweden brought its wild salmon populations back from the edge of extinction a few decades ago. So how did Northern Sweden manage to preserve its wild salmon when many other regions couldn't?