Voyageur 60
Hamilton's SGA Broke a 63-Year-Old NBA Record, and Poilievre Starts a Week-Long U.S. Tour in Detroit.
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Hamilton's SGA Broke a 63-Year-Old NBA Record
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (“the artist known as SGA”) scored 35 points against the Boston Celtics on Thursday night, lifting the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 104-102 win. It was also his 127th consecutive game with 20 or more points - breaking a record Wilt Chamberlain set 63 years ago.
The streak started in October 2024. During those 127 games, the Thunder went 103-24. SGA has dropped 50 or more five times, including a career-high 55 against Indiana. He won MVP last season and is the favourite to win it again.
"The streak is the streak, the awards are the awards," he said. "But the thing I'm most proud of is winning."
Gilgeous-Alexander grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, and played high school ball at Sir Allan MacNab before heading to Kentucky. His coach Mark Daigneault called him "surgical" - the most precise player he's ever seen. Chamberlain's record stood for 63 years. SGA is 27.
Read more: CBC Sports / NBA.com
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Poilievre Starts a Week-Long U.S. Tour in Detroit
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre started a week-long U.S. tour on Friday in Detroit, meeting with automotive industry leaders and elected officials. His pitch is for tariff-free trade and an integrated North American auto sector - a message aimed at the industry hit hardest by the trade war.
"Canada can't control every decision made in Washington," Poilievre said. "But we can leverage the goodwill and shared interests with the American people."
From Detroit, he heads to Houston on Monday for energy meetings, then Austin for agriculture and state officials, before he wraps up on Thursday with a keynote in New York on Canada-U.S. relations. The Conservative Party is paying for the trip.
It's an unusual move for an opposition leader to take the Canada pitch directly to American audiences while the government does the same in Europe. PM Carney spent this week at NATO exercises in Norway (Voyageur 59) and heads to London on Sunday to meet King Charles.
Read more: CBC News