What you need to know
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Canada forward Meghan Agosta (2) and the Canadian bench react after losing to the United States in shootout women’s gold medal final.
Hockey heartbreaker: Canada lost to the U.S. in the sixth round of a shootout in the women’s hockey gold-medal game at the Pyeongchang Olympics. Canada had won gold at the previous four Olympics. READ MORE
Early curling: Canada is playing the U.S. in a men’s curling semifinal match at the Winter Olympics this morning, and the winner will compete for gold early Saturday. Meanwhile, Canada’s Kim Boutin won silver in the women’s 1,000-metre short-track speedskating race, her third medal at the Games, and the men’s short-track speedskating team won bronze in the men’s 5,000-metre relay. READ MORE
Embarrassing error: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a man convicted of trying to kill an Indian cabinet minister “never should have received an invitation” to receptions in Delhi. Jaspal Atwal — who attended an event with Trudeau this week — was invited by British Columbia MP Randeep Sarai. READ MORE
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In case you missed it
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The jury has started deliberation in Raymond Cormier’s murder trial.
Jury weighs case: The jury in the second-degree murder trial of Raymond Cormier began deliberations Wednesday. Cormier is accused of killing 15-year-old Tina Fontaine in 2014, wrapping her body in a duvet and dumping it in the Red River. Katie May reports. READ MORE
All accomplices: The death of Tina Fontaine “is on all of us” regardless of the verdict, columnist Niigaan Sinclair writes. “We must be better. Men, particularly. Indigenous and Canadian men. All men,” Sinclair says. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
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Winnipeg Jets’ Blake Wheeler (26) skates down the ice during third period NHL hockey action against the Vancouver Canucks, in Winnipeg, Monday, December 11, 2017.
Wheeler keeps on rolling: Three-quarters of the way through the NHL season, Jets captain Blake Wheeler is a legitimate candidate for the Hart Trophy as the league’s most valuable player. Mike McIntyre takes a look at five main contenders and 10 dark-horse candidates. READ MORE
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Lobbyists and attorneys listen as student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, scene of a mass shooting last Wednesday, interrupt a house legislative committee hearing to challenge lawmakers on gun control reform in Tallahassee, Fla., Wednesday.
#StudentsStandUp: Survivors of the Parkland high school mass shooting in Florida travelled to the state capitol to lobby lawmakers on stricter gun control laws. Thousands of supporters gathered outside as the students went in to speak to their elected officials. READ MORE
On this date
On Feb. 22, 1954: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a 21-year-old youth collapsed on the dock in the courtroom when the judge sentenced him to five years in prison for punching and robbing a female cab driver of her cab. A 22-year-old Winnipeg R.C.A.F. reserve pilot was killed when his Mustang fighter crashed in a farmer’s field near Teulon. READ MORE
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