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...

After a blowout loss in their opening game of the FIBA women’s world championships,...

In their first Olympic games, China’s women’s curling team has impressed by picking up...

 Sweden skip Anette Norberg forced team China skip Wang Bingyu to concede after the...

  Not even a head cold could stop team Canada skip Cheryl Bernard. The 43-year-old’s rink...

Australia’s Lydia Lassila took home gold in the ladies’ Olympic aerials event on Wednesday.

The women of Switzerland over powered the women from China in their hockey classification...

  Cheryl Bernard’s Canadian women’s curling rink narrowly avoided an upset Friday night, squeaking passed...

  Marianne St-Gelais led the trio of Canadian short-track women to the 500m speed skating...