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

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.

VANCOUVER — The surging Vancouver Whitecaps are trying to strike a delicate balance.

The international body that regulates shipping has approved new environmental protections for the Canadian Arctic expected to reduce emissions that hasten the melting of Arctic sea ice.

The numbers favour the Canadian men in Saturday's high-stakes Copa America qualifier with Trinidad and Tobago in Frisco, Texas. Canada is ranked 50th in the world, compared to No. 96 for Trinidad.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Fridayon the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (21,984.08, down 103.18): Canopy Growth Corp. (TSX:WEED). Health care. Up $4.32, or 70.13 per cent, to $10.48 on 15.1 million shares.