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Griner's trial resumes amid intensified diplomacy
MOSCOW (AP) - Since Brittney Griner last appeared in her trial for cannabis possession, the question of her fate expanded from a tiny and cramped courtroom on Moscow's outskirts to the highest level o...
Aug 01, 2022
'Very profound': Hundreds of residential school photos found in Rome archives
WINNIPEG - Raymond Frogner says when he found images of residential school students in the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate archives in Rome, he knew he was looking at something important."It did...
Aug 01, 2022
Canada blanks Jamaica 5-0 to open play at CONCACAF U-15 Women's Championship
TAMPA, Fla. - Nikolina Istocki scored twice as Canada opened play at the CONCACAF Girls' Under-15 Championship with a 5-0 win over Jamaica on Monday. Keira Martin, Annabelle Chukwu and Taegan Stewart ...
Aug 01, 2022
Head of World Health Organization tells Montreal conference progress on HIV at risk
MONTREAL - The director-general of the World Health Organization told an international AIDS conference in Montreal today that growing inequality could reverse a decade of progress made in the fight ag...
Aug 01, 2022
Ukraine paddlers to push hard at Worlds, as reminder "sport must live" despite war
DARTMOUTH, N.S. - Ukrainian paddlers at the world championships are grateful for the tranquility of the Dartmouth lakes - having temporarily left behind sirens and missiles flying overhead. But for Pa...
Aug 01, 2022
Prime Minister Trudeau is routinely offered portraits of himself as gifts: Analysis
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been offered the gift of his own likeness some 17 times since becoming prime minister, including once by the president of China. The portraits, along with a myriad of...
Aug 01, 2022
Mateo Restrepo trades one dream for another, leaving pro soccer for med school
At 25, Mateo Restrepo has already achieved one dream by playing pro soccer. Now the HFX Wanderers FC defender is embarking on another, quitting football for medical school. The Toronto native left Mon...
Aug 01, 2022
Canadian gymnast Dolci takes silver in men's floor event at Commonwealth Games
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom - Canadian gymnast Felix Dolci has picked up his second medal of the Commonwealth Games, taking silver in the men's floor event. Dolci, from Laval, Que., earned a score of 1...
Aug 01, 2022
U15A Softball: Aces, Astros ready for National tournaments
It's been nearly a month since the U15A boys and girls' softball provincials were held in Prince Albert, which saw the Astros win it all and the Aces fall just short. Regardless of how either team fin...
Aug 01, 2022
80 men in South African court on charges of raping 8 women
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - More than 80 men suspected of the gang rapes of eight women and the armed robbery of a video production crew in the South African town of Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, appeare...
Aug 01, 2022
