BEIJING (AP) — A leader of the Canadian government is visiting China this week for the first time in nearly a decade, a bid to rebuild his country’s fractured relations with the world’s second-largest economy — and reduce Canada’s dependence on the United States, its neighbor and until recently one of its most supportive and unswerving allies.

Team U.S. may only have three out lesbian and sapphic hockey players, but Team Canada managed to double that number, including wives Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey, who will be a force to be reckoned with. The XXV Winter Olympic Games will be held in Milano Cortina, Italy, from February 6-22, 2026.