Korea beats Canada
A lack of offence was a concern throughout the 22nd World Junior championships.
And it was a major difficulty in the semi-final as Korea held Canada to four hits in the semi-final, a 6-1 Korea win. Rather than playing Team USA for gold, Canada will now play Mexico for bronze.
A win would have given Canada a chance for only its second gold-medal and first since 1991 at Kindersley, Sask. Canada has won the bronze medal four times before: in 2002, 1997, 1987 and 1983.
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Korea Becomes Pop Music Source in East Asia
To the surprise of people whose image of Korea is that of a rather serious-minded economic powerhouse, Korea is becoming a favorite source for popular music throughout East Asia.
Hearing Korean singers crooning in the taxicabs of Beijing or Tokyo is becoming an increasingly common experience. But at the same time, Korea is now a global pace-setter in state-of-the-art technologies — nowhere more so than in the area of information and telecommunications technologies that enable the rapid, seamless and enjoyable dissemination of digital content, including music.
Famously, Korea has the highest broadband penetration in the
Air Canada says it will offer the airline industry's first-ever subscription to unlimited flights.
The price of the two-month pass is $6,998, plus tax.
The Montreal-based carrier (TSX:ACE.B) said Tuesday its new North America Unlimited Pass lets pass holders fly as often as they wish - for a two-month period from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30 - to more than 100 destinations served by Air Canada and subsidiary Air Canada Jazz in Canada and the continental United States.
The pass will be available for purchase for two weeks starting Wednesday.
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New Zealand Beats S. Africa, Japan to Host 2011 Rugby World Cup
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- New Zealand upset Japan and South Africa to claim the right to stage the 2011 Rugby World Cup, the world's third-biggest sport's event by television audience.
New Zealand beat Japan in the final round of voting in Dublin after South Africa was eliminated in the initial stage today. It was the first three-way bidding contest in the 18-year history of the tournament.
New Zealand, which hosted and won the first World Cup in 1987, boasts the world's top-ranked national team. The 2003 event, which attracted
Canada bounced from U-20 soccer tourney
Canada is leaving the world womens under-20 soccer championship earlier than ever before.
And the fact that the Canadian women put on their best showing of the tournament in a 1-0 loss to favoured China on Wednesday will do little to ease the long flight home.
Canada (1-2-0) finished third in Group B behind China (3-0-0) and Nigeria (2-1-0). Only the top two in the group advance to the quarter-finals.
Nigeria cruised by Canada into second spot by thumping winless Finland 8-0.
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Canada 5, Germany 1
First Period_1, Canada, Wade Redden (Simon Gagne, Joe Thornton), 4:52. 2, Canada, Joe Sakic (Todd Bertuzzi, Rick Nash), 7:29 (pp). 3, Canada, Simon Gagne (Robyn Regehr, Brad Richards), 10:49. Penalties_Chris Pronger, Canada (holding), 1:00 Sven Felski, Germany (elbowing), 6:24 Dany Heatley, Canada (slashing), 9:43 Daniel Kreutzer, Germany (hooking), 10:14 Alexander Sulzer, Germany (tripping), 12:08 Tomas Martinec, Germany (hooking), 15:16 Vincent Lecavalier, Canada (interference), 19:42.
Second Period_4, Germany, Christian Ehrhoff (Christoph Schubert, Stefan Ustorf), 9:13. 5, Canada, Dany Heatley (Adam Foote), 15:37. Penalties_Christian Ehrhoff, Germany (holding), 3:49 Bryan McCabe, Canada (holding), 6:59 Chris Pronger, Canada (interference), 7:15 Florian
