COC, Canada Soccer appeal FIFA’s 6-point deduction from women’s team in Olympic tournament

The Canadian Olympic Committee and Canada Soccer are appealing FIFA’s six-point penalty to the national women’s soccer team in the wake of a spying scandal at the Paris Games. FIFA docked the points on Saturday as part of a punishment that included a fine for Canada Soccer and the suspension of three coaching staff members…

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In 1993, Alberta said a private liquor model would bring more choice and stable prices. Did it?

“The Alberta Liquor Control Board is no longer our spiritual leader,” Calgary Herald columnist Don Martin declared in a Sept. 3, 1993, column. Martin was reacting to news that the Alberta government would give up exclusive control over liquor, having regulated sales via the Alberta Liquor Control Board since prohibition ended in the province in 1924….

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Wildfire that ripped through Jasper National Park could burn for months, official says

A wildfire that’s destroyed hundreds of structures in the town of Jasper, Alta., and continues to burn out of control in the national park could still be burning months from now, a Parks Canada official says. “This fire is the largest one that Jasper National Park has recorded in the last 100 years,” Landon Shepherd, a deputy incident…

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