Another day, another Paralympic medal for both Aurélie Rivard and Brent Lakatos. Rivard swam to her fifth medal of the Tokyo Games — and 10th of her career — by taking silver in the women's S10 100-metre backstroke. Lakatos stayed one step ahead of her by winning his 11th career Paralympic medal, this in the men's T53 800m wheelchair event. He's now won four medals in Tokyo — all of them silver. Read more about what happened on Day 9 here. 

Rivard and Lakatos have accounted for half of Canada's medal count, which now stands at 18 (three gold, 10 silver, five bronze), with a bunch more podium opportunities coming on Day 10. Rivard, swimming in her final event, is one of several Canadian contenders in the pool, while the women's sitting volleyball team can guarantee itself a medal by winning its semifinal. We'll cover those and other Canadian medal chances in today's Paralympic viewing guide. Plus, the Canadian men's soccer team resumes its quest to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, and three Canadians play their second-round matches at the weather-battered U.S. open today.

Here's what to watch on Thursday night and Friday morning:

Canada's swimmers can go out with a bang

Aurélie Rivard can make it six medals in six events on the final day of swimming competition. (Naomi Baker/Getty Images)

Other top Canadians to watch on Thursday night/Friday morning

Track and field — Marissa Papaconstantinou in the women's T64 100m final at 6:14 a.m. ET: After making her Paralympic debut as a 16-year-old in 2016, Papaconstantinou was ranked third in the world in the 100m leading up to the 2019 world championships. A torn hamstring led to her missing the final there, but she's back in the podium mix in Tokyo. She placed fourth overall in the qualifying heats with a time of 13.22 seconds — her best of the season. Papaconstantinou is also part of the Canadian 4x100m universal relay team, which will compete in the heats at 11:36 p.m. ET. If they make the final, it's at 8:17 a.m. ET. Read more about Papaconstantinou here. 

Women's sitting volleyball semifinals — Canada vs. China at 7:30 a.m. ET: A win would guarantee Canada at least a silver medal, but that looks like a tall order. China is ranked No. 2 in the world (three spots ahead of Canada) and breezed through its three group-stage matches without losing a set. Canada went 2-1. History favours the Chinese too: they won three consecutive Paralympic gold medals before losing the title match to the United States in 2016, while Canada had never reached the semifinals before this. The other semi pits the U.S. vs. Brazil. The winners will play for gold on Saturday night, while the losers square off for bronze early Saturday morning.

See the full schedule of Canadians competing here.

How to watch live events

A variety of Day 10 events will be streamed live on CBC Gem, the CBC Sports app and CBCSports.ca starting at 8 p.m. ET. 

You can also watch Paralympic action on the CBC TV network from 3-5 p.m., 7-8 p.m. and 12:30-2:30 a.m. in your local time. These shows will be streamed on the platforms mentioned above from 2-4 p.m. ET, 6-7 p.m. ET and 11:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. ET.

See a detailed streaming schedule with links to watch live events here.

More on the Paralympics

Seventeen-year-old swimmer Nicholas Bennett is the youngest Canadian athlete at the Tokyo Paralympics. Though he didn't win a medal, Bennett broke the national record in all four of his events and reached the final in three. He hopes those performances can inspire others with autism. Read more about Bennett here.

If you're wondering what T53, S10 and other letter/number combinations listed with each event mean, read this explainer on impairment classifications. 

For round-the-clock updates from Tokyo, follow CBC Sports reporter Devin Heroux on Twitter.

Some non-Paralympic things you should know about

The Canadian men's soccer team kicks off its final round of regional qualifying for the 2022 World Cup tonight. This is the first time the team has reached this stage since the run-up to the 1998 World Cup. But with young stars Alphonso Davies and Jonathan David leading the way this time, there's hope that Canada might make a real run at qualifying for Qatar. The push starts tonight at 8 p.m. ET in Toronto vs. Honduras. Then comes a matchup with the United States on Sunday in Nashville, before El Salvador comes to Toronto on Wednesday. Those are the first of 14 matches for Canada in this round, which runs through March and involves the top eight teams in the CONCACAF region (North and Central America and the Caribbean). Everyone plays one home and one away match against the other seven teams. The three with the best records qualify for the World Cup, and the fourth-place team earns one last shot to qualify via a two-leg intercontinental playoff matchup in June. After next week, Canada plays again in October — at Mexico, at Jamaica and home to Panama. Read more about the path Canada is facing and its chances of qualifying for the World Cup here. 

Canada's two highest-ranked tennis players will try to reach the third round of the U.S. Open tonight. The wild weather that battered New York City last night seems to have passed, clearing the way for women's No. 6 seed Bianca Andreescu and men's No. 7 Denis Shapovalov to play back-to-back in primetime at Louis Armstrong Stadium. Andreescu's match vs. 98th-ranked American Lauren Davis is at 7 p.m. ET, followed immediately by Shapovalov facing 95th-ranked Roberto Carballes Baena. Unseeded Canadian Vasek Pospisil was playing his second-round match at our publish time. Yesterday, 12th-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime and unseeded Leylah Fernandez both advanced to the third round. Fernandez will face defending champion Naomi Osaka tomorrow, while Auger-Aliassime meets No. 18 Roberto Bautista Agut.

You're up to speed. Talk to you tomorrow.