World track body creates biennial championships with bigger cash prizes as potential Olympics rival

Track and field announced a new global championships on Monday and promised $150,000 US in prizes — three times its recent cash pledge to champions at the Paris Olympics — for gold medallists. World Athletics said the first Ultimate Championships will be hosted in Budapest from Sept. 11-13, 2026 showcasing Olympic, world and Diamond League…

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After attacking the Speaker, would Poilievre consider parliamentary reform?

While his party has made a cause célèbre out of its battle with the Speaker, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has periodically waxed poetic about the House of Commons — suggesting that its green upholstery is meant to symbolize the fields of the English countryside where commoners met centuries ago before the signing of the Magna Carta. The actual…

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