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September 5

California wildfire traps campers in national forest
Large crane helicopters drop water on a wildfire that came dangerously close to a home near Japatul Road Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020 in Alpine, Calif. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)
Johnson turns rough day into 1-shot lead at East Lake
Dustin Johnson misses an eagle putt on the 18th green during the second round of the Tour Championship golf tournament at East Lake Golf Club, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020 in Atlanta. Johnson made birdie on the hole. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
Raptors take back the reins with win over Celtics in 2-2 series tie
Toronto Raptors' Pascal Siakam (43) drives to the basket ahead of Boston Celtics' Robert Williams III (44) during the first half of an NBA conference semifinal playoff basketball game Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Islanders beat Flyers in Game 7, will play Lightning in Eastern Conference final
New York Islanders centre Brock Nelson (29) scores on Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Carter Hart (79) during second period NHL Stanley Cup Eastern Conference playoff hockey action in Toronto on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Community centres, more recreational facilities set to reopen across Vancouver
Volunteer Terron Falk, centre, chairman of Hockey HEROS, speaks to kids participating in the program during a practice at Britannia Rink, in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday March 18, 2015. DARRYL DYCK FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Mladenovic out of US Open because of coronavirus quarantine
Kristina Mladenovic, of France, returns a shot to Varvara Gracheva, of Russia, during the second round of the US Open tennis championships, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Pospisil, Auger-Aliassime join Shapovalov in round of 16 at US Open
Vasek Pospisil, of Canada, returns a shot to Roberto Bautista Agut, of Spain, during the third round of the US Open tennis championships, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Ottawa to extend small-business rent relief program as officials consider reforming it, sources say
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, right, speaks as Mary Ng, Minister of International Trade, Small Business and Export Promotion looks on during a press conference in Toronto, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
Horse racing-Authentic holds off Tiz the Law to win Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY - SEPTEMBER 05: Jockey John Velazquez, aboard Authentic #18, celebrates after winning the 146th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on September 05, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
NY attorney general to form grand jury months after Daniel Prude’s death
Demonstrators march through the streets in Rochester, N.Y., Friday, Sept. 4, 2020 protesting the death of Daniel Prude. Prude apparently stopped breathing as police in Rochester were restraining him in March 2020 and died when he was taken off life support a week later. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
Alaskans fined, taken to U.S. after allegedly violating Quarantine Act in B.C.
Part of Canada's land border with the United States is pictured closed at the Peace Arch border crossing in Surrey, B.C., Tuesday, April 28, 2020. RCMP in British Columbia say four Americans have been fined $500 for violating emergency orders under the Quarantine Act, invoked in order to limit the spread of COVID-19.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Coronavirus Update: How race and income will shape Canada’s back-to-school season
TORONTO, ONT (09/03/20) — The cafeteria at Westview Centennial Secondary School pictured ahead of school reopening on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2020. Yader Guzman/The Globe and Mail
Facebook blocks livestream of euthanasia campaigner’s death
(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 12, 2020 Alain Cocq, suffering from an orphan desease of the blood, rests on his medical bed in his flat in Dijon, northeastern France. - Cocq announced on September 4, 2020 that he had been refused by the French President in his request to help him die and that he will cease all treatment from this day on. "Because I am not above the law, I am not in a position to accede to your request", wrote the French President to him. Alain Cocq asks to receive the authorization from the medical profession to prescribe a barbiturate. "I am not asking for assisted suicide or euthanasia", he defends himself. "But an ultimate care. Because I am just trying to avoid inhuman suffering", which the Leonetti law currently does not allow regarding the end of life, according to him. (Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP) (Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP via Getty Images)
N.S. man dies after ingesting substance believed to contain fentanyl: RCMP
The entire We'koqma'q Mi'kmaq First Nation in Nova Scotia is breathing a sigh of relief, Chief Rod Googoo said Saturday, after an Indigenous girl who had been missing for more than a week was found safe. The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., Friday, April 13, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Rival groups gather at Kentucky Derby as summer of protests grinds on
A far-right activist and self-described militia member confronts a Black Lives Matter activist on the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. September 5, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
Lecce aims to reassure parents after Quebec schools see 47 COVID cases
A student is greeted at the Philippe-Labarre Elementary School in Montreal, on Thursday, August 27, 2020. Thousands of Quebec students return to class in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Taliban return to Doha setting stage for Afghan peace talks
FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2019, file photo, a man waves an Afghan flag during Independence Day celebrations in Kabul, Afghanistan. Officials on both sides of Afghanistan's protracted conflict say efforts are ramping up for the start of intra-Afghan negotiations, a critical next step to a U.S. negotiated peace deal with the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
China’s CNBG, Sinovac find more countries to test coronavirus vaccines
BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 05: A booth displaying China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd. shows a COVID-19 vaccine candidate during the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) at Beijing Olympic Park on September 5, 2020 in Beijing, China. As China recovers from the COVID-19 epidemic, about 2,000 Chinese and foreign enterprises will participate and showcase their newest technology in public health and digital technology in the China International Fair for Trade in Services. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
Why Netflix’s uncomfortable office culture works
Netflix Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings, photographed in August 2020 on NetflixÕ Los Gatos, California campus.
Unions threaten work stoppages amid calls for racial justice
FILE - In this July 20, 2020, file photo, Audrey Reed, 8, holds up a sing through the sunroof of a car during a rally in Los Angeles. Ahead of Labor Day, major U.S. labor unions say they are considering work stoppages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Indian, Chinese defence ministers meet in Russia amid border tensions
An Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. India said Monday its soldiers thwarted “provocative” movements by China’s military near a disputed border in the Ladakh region months into the rival nations’ deadliest standoff in decades. China's military said it was taking “necessary actions in response," without giving details. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Belarusian opposition activist Kovalkova leaves to Poland after arrest
FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2020, file photo, Belarusian opposition activist Olga Kovalkova attends a news conference in Minsk, Belarus. The Coordination Council, set up by the opposition to negotiate a transfer of power, said police have detained members Sergei Dylevsky and Olga Kovalkova. The council wants a new election, saying that the Aug. 9 vote that kept authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in power was fraudulent. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)
Ex-FBI agent says attacks from Trump ‘outrageous’ and ‘cruel’
FILE - In this July 12, 2018, file photo, then-FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, waits for the start of a House Judiciary Committee joint hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Strzok, a former FBI agent who was fired because of derogatory text messages about Donald Trump, writes in a new book that he believes the president has been compromised by Russia. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
‘Cautious but reasonable optimism’ over Berlusconi’s health, doctor says
Italian professor Alberto Zangrillo, San Raffaele Hospitals personal doctor of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, adjusts his face mask during a press conference after Berlusconi was hospitalised after testing positive for COVID-19, at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, on September 4, 2020. - Italy's flamboyant former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been hospitalised, his aides said on September 4, 2020, days after the media tycoon became the latest high-profile figure to contract the coronavirus. (Photo by Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP) (Photo by PIERO CRUCIATTI/AFP via Getty Images)
Durham police respond to 11 drug overdoses, including one fatal incident
FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019 file photo, a fire medic holds a box containing naloxone hydrochloride which is carried in all their department's emergency response vehicles, in Akron, Ohio. Doctors who prescribe opioid painkillers should tell their patients about a potentially life-saving medication that can reverse drug overdoses, according to new federal guidelines issued Thursday, July 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Activists insist on changes to policing after Prude’s death
Demonstrators march through the streets in Rochester, N.Y., Friday, Sept. 4, 2020 protesting the death of Daniel Prude. Prude apparently stopped breathing as police in Rochester were restraining him in March 2020 and died when he was taken off life support a week later. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
Western Canada: Return to school causes anxieties over COVID-19, class sizes to boil over
A sign is seen on a teachers desk during a media tour of Hastings Elementary school in Vancouver, Wednesday, September 2, 2020. The Vancouver School Board put on a tour to show the COVID-19 precautions being taken to help keep children safe in the new school year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Environment activists blockade UK newspaper printing plants to expose ‘failure’ to report on climate
Two protesters attached to bamboo and two sitting on the roof of a van block the road, outside Broxbourne newsprinters, in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. Environmental activists have blockaded two British printing plants, disrupting the distribution of several national newspapers. The group Extinction Rebellion said it targeted printworks at Broxbourne, north of London, and Knowsley in northwest England that are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Dozens of protesters locked themselves to vehicles and bamboo scaffolding to block the road outside the plants. The facilities print Murdoch-owned papers The Sun and The Times, as well as the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Financial Times. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
Fifteen people test positive for COVID-19 after attending GTA church services
Specimens to be tested for COVID-19 are seen at a lab in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, March 26, 2020. The NHL says the laboratories hired to conduct daily COVID-19 tests on players in Edmonton and Toronto keep their supply chains separate from the public's to ensure never the twain shall meet. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero denied access to lawyer, supporters say
FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 file photo, President Bush awards Paul Rusesabagina, who sheltered people at a hotel he managed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in the East Room of the White House, in Washington. Rusesabagina, who was portrayed in the film "Hotel Rwanda" as a hero who saved the lives of more than 1,200 people from the country's 1994 genocide, and is a well-known critic of President Paul Kagame, has been arrested by the Rwandan government on terror charges, police announced on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)
Portland police arrest 27 as city nears 100 days of protests
A police officer stands guard outside the Portland Police Association building during clashes with protesters on Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in Portland, Ore. On Saturday, protesters will mark their 100th consecutive day of demonstrations following the killing of George Floyd. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Guide aims to help music students play along with physical distancing
Janet Wade, front right, Music Director at W.J. Mouat Secondary School in Abbotsford, and Christin Reardon MacLellan, Director of Education & Community Programs for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, pose for a photograph in New Westminster, B.C., on Thursday, September 3, 2020. Darryl Dyck/The Globe and Mail
How race, income and ‘opportunity hoarding’ will shape Canada’s back-to-school season
Parenting SOS: With school back, how can we make the separation between the kids and their grandparents easier?
Sarah Rosensweet
Growing flowers COVID-19’s silver lining for organic vegetable suppliers
Brittany and Ryan Mason cut flowers at Reclaim Organics near Thorsby, Alberta on Wednesday, August 26, 2020. The vegetable farm has pivoted to also sell farm grown bouquets at the markets. Amber Bracken
Small class sizes are pricey, but the alternative might cost Alberta more
Kelly Cryderman
TIFF 2020: Everything you missed at this year’s festival
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Restaurateurs across country say we all have a stake in their economic health
Moishes steakhouse seen on The Main in Montreal, on Sept. 4, 2020.
Can the submersion of the Toronto Islands be stopped?
Sandbags, left from previous year's flooding on the Toronto Islands, line Seneca Avenue on Algonquin Island.
The key to a low-carbon economy might be under our noses – and under the ground
A flare stack lights the sky from the Imperial Oil refinery in Edmonton on December 28, 2018. The end of the COVID-19 pandemic may be a long way off, but analysts are already looking ahead to how Canada could hasten its recovery and position itself for a low-carbon economy. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Playing down the rabbit hole: The conspiracy-theory crisis isn’t what you might think it is
A man wearing a QAnon vest attends a "No Mandatory Flu Shot Massachusetts" demonstration against Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's order for mandatory influenza vaccinations for all students under the age of 30, an effort to lower the burden on the health care system during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, outside the State House in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., August 30, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
How to know whether you need a wheel alignment or a wheel balance
Web version Lou's Garage advice column logo Driving section credit illustration by John Sopinski/The Globe and Mail
Is it time to decolonize your lawn?
The humble garden could be under threat
We can continue to talk about diversity - or do something to achieve it
Sept. 5: ‘A case of neglect disguised as a naturalized garden.’ Readers debate: Are wild gardens a challenge to lawn order? Plus other letters to the editor
The “natural gardenâ€ù at the front of 66 Hillcrest Drive in Toronto is photographed on August 28, 2020. JENNIFER ROBERTS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Gas pipeline blast kills 16 praying at Bangladesh mosque
Golden Knights beat Canucks 3-0 in Game 7 to knock Vancouver out of playoffs
Thatcher Demko #35 of the Vancouver Canucks allows a goal to Shea Theodore (not pictured) of the Vegas Golden Knights as Mark Stone #61 and William Karlsson #71 celebrate during the third period in Game Seven of the Western Conference Second Round during the 2020 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Sept. 4, 2020.
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