Coronavirus death toll climbs, government assures readiness
In the midst of the growing coronavirus problem, government officials have assured the public that everything is under control.
In the midst of the growing coronavirus problem, government officials have assured the public that everything is under control.
Thursday the Toronto Raptors won its first NBA title, but they weren’t the only basketball team in Canada that night with a noteworthy victory.
Jia Zhen Liao remembers the day she lost her family. “I was a young girl then and didn’t know what was happening,” she said. In the early 1940s, young village children in the Canton province of China spent their days playing, tending the crops or performing various chores.
When Microsoft’s chief research officer took to the stage in Tianjin, China, last month, his language skills made an auditorium of hundreds of native Mandarin speakers applaud wildly. But he only spoke English at the conference. As he explained new developments in instantaneous translation and interpretation, Rick Rashid’s English spoken words were simultaneously translated robotically to Mandarin. The stunned crowd applauded the new computer system that can recognize human speech patterns, thanks to a U of T research team.
Christine Sinclair scored her 102nd international goal to lead Canada to a 3-1 victory over China in a soccer friendly at BMO Field on Thursday. Canada’s national women’s team dominated China for most of the…
[audio:http://torontoobserver.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Nicole_CanadaChinaWomensBBall_podcast.mp3|titles=Nicole_CanadaChinaWomensBBall_podcast] After a blowout loss in their opening game of the FIBA women’s world championships, team Canada found themselves down a large margin once again. But this time, the Canadians came out of halftime with…
In their first Olympic games, China’s women’s curling team has impressed by picking up a bronze medal as they defeated Switzerland 12-6 at the Vancouver Olympic Centre on Friday. Two-time Olympic silver medalist Mirjam Ott…
Sweden skip Anette Norberg forced team China skip Wang Bingyu to concede after the ninth end, defeating the Chinese 9-4 in semifinal action of women’s curling on Thursday at the Vancouver Olympic Centre. The rematch…
Not even a head cold could stop team Canada skip Cheryl Bernard. The 43-year-old’s rink came through in the clutch in another nail-biter to defeat Switzerland skip Mirjam Ott 6-5 in semifinal action of…
Australia’s Lydia Lassila took home gold in the ladies’ Olympic aerials event on Wednesday.