Montreal’s Olympic Stadium needs its roof replaced — and the group that manages the stadium has launched a competition to make the most of the old one. Source link
The “Three Musketeers” of Canadian running will get a feel for racing in Paris this weekend before some of their Olympic competition early next month in the French capital. Thomas Fafard is scheduled to make his Diamond League season debut Sunday at the Meeting de Paris, joining Charles Philibert-Thiboutot in the men’s 3,000 metres at 11:06…
The Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, swept the polls in the United Kingdom this week while Canada is set to get its first female chief of defence staff. And who is Count Binface, the “intergalactic space warrior” who ran against ex-British prime minister Rishi Sunak? Here were some of the top stories this week….
The email from national caucus chair Brenda Shanahan rejecting calls for an early in-person Liberal caucus meeting landed in members’ inboxes around 5 p.m. on the fourth of July. Citing “scheduling logistics,” Shanahan officially dismissed public demands from Liberal MPs for an urgent gathering to discuss the fallout from the byelection loss in Toronto-St. Paul’s. In…
Ariel Helwani sits down with Mississauga, Ont., native as she prepares for her second Olympic Games. Source link
LCBO workers are on strike for the first time in Ontario’s history, with the union representing those workers declaring a “dry summer has begun.” Talks between the Crown agency and the Ontario Public Sector Employees Union (OPSEU) broke down, with the sale of pre-mixed drinks at corner and grocery stores a key sticking point between…
Parents who steal a moment of calm by handing over a smartphone or tablet to a fussy toddler could set off a cycle of poor anger management and other problems, according to a recent study. Research published last week in the journal Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry says using such devices for emotional regulation “can be effective…
Score one more for team Start Slow, Finish Fast. If you’re keeping track of Olympic trials results — and any real track nerd should be — note that Noah Lyles, Sha’Carri Richardson, Shericka Jackson, Andre De Grasse and Kishane Thompson all trailed early in their respective 100-metre finals. And each of them finished first, often against Diamond League-level…
Time to dust off your cowboy boots and hats, Calgary. Stampede season is here and will kick off with Parade Day on Friday. The parade will begin just before 9 a.m. and will start at the intersection of Ninth Avenue and Third Street Southeast. More than 100 entries entries will participate in the parade this…
Charles Evans’s cabin at Gun Lake was once an old mining office, according to what the Penticton man was told. It dated back to the 1950s, was dragged across the frozen lake during winter decades ago, and plopped onto the property he purchased in 2019 in B.C.’s Sea-to-Sky region. It and over 50 other properties were…
