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Cam Davis nets first PGA Tour victory in thrilling playoff
Jul 4, 2021; Detroit, Michigan, USA; Cam Davis makes a birdie putt on the 18th hole during the final round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: Raj Mehta-USA TODAY Sports
Shohei Ohtani first all-star picked as pitcher, position player
Jul 4, 2021; Anaheim, California, USA; Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani (17) reacts after hitting a solo home run against the Baltimore Orioles during the third inning at Angel Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports
B.C. officials suspect human cause for devastating Lytton wildfire
A helicopter pilot prepares to drop water on a wildfire burning in Lytton, B.C., on Friday, July 2, 2021. The B.C. Wildfire Service says the wildfire burning near Lytton, B.C., has grown since Friday night as another blaze forced more than 100 homes to be evacuated. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Three dead, 80 still missing in Japan landslides as rescuers fight time, weather
Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces sift through mud and debris as they search for missing people at the scene of a landslide in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, on July 5, 2021. - Rescuers in the Japanese holiday town hit by a deadly landslide were forced to suspend their search for survivors several times on July 4 as more rain lashed the devastated area. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
Tadej Pogacar keeps control of Tour de France as Roglic drops out
Team UAE Emirates' Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia (L) wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey rides during the 9th stage of the 108th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 144 km between Cluses and Tignes, on July 04, 2021. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP) (Photo by ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP via Getty Images)
Cameco says workers will return to Saskatchewan mine as wildfire risk drops
Cameco - Cigar Lake. Handout
Shooting near Fort Worth car wash wounds eight
In this photo on Twitter released by the Fort Worth Police, Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes holds a news briefing at the site of a shooting early Sunday, July 4, 2021, in Fort Worth, Texas. Multiple people were wounded early Sunday in a shooting near a Fort Worth car wash in which it appears multiple guns were used, police said. (Fort Worth Police Dept. via AP)
Meadows gets three hits, Franco homers as Rays beat Blue Jays 5-1
Jul 4, 2021; Buffalo, New York, CAN; Toronto Blue Jays center Randal Grichuk (15) hits a home run during the second inning against the Tampa Bay Rays at Sahlen Field. Mandatory Credit: Gregory Fisher-USA TODAY Sports
After a tough year, are the Canadiens up for another challenge?
Tampa Bay Lightning's Anthony Cirelli (71) celebrates a goal against Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price (31) as Shea Weber (6) and Ben Chiarot (8) look on during the first period in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals in Montreal on Friday, July 2, 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Calgary police say man who intervened after hearing woman tell man to stop hitting her has died
Police vehicles at Calgary Police Service headquarters on April 9, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Pro-Trump social media app GETTR hacked on launch day as half million sign up
Former US President Donald Trump speaks during his campaign-style rally in Wellington, Ohio, on June 26, 2021. - Donald Trump held his first big campaign-style rally since leaving the White House, giving a vintage, rambling speech Saturday to an adoring audience as he launched a series of appearances ahead of next year's midterm elections. The former president, who has been booted from social media platforms and faces multiple legal woes, has flirted with his own potential candidacy in 2024, but in the 90-minute address at a fair grounds in Ohio he made no clear mention of his political future, even when the crowd chanted "four more years! four more years!" (Photo by STEPHEN ZENNER / AFP) (Photo by STEPHEN ZENNER/AFP via Getty Images)
Taliban sweep through northeast Afghanistan as government troops flee
Afghan soldiers pause on a road at the front line of fighting between Taliban and Security forces, near the city of Badakhshan, northern Afghanistan, Sunday, July. 4, 2021. Officials said Sunday that the Taliban’s march through northern Afghanistan has gained momentum with the capture of several districts from fleeing Afghan forces. They said that several hundred of them fled across the border into Tajikistan.(AP Photo/Nazim Qasmy)
At least 25 Myanmar civilians reported dead as soldiers ‘shot everything that moved’
TOPSHOT - Protesters take part in a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon on July 3, 2021. (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***
GTA-based mobile hair-care company for seniors gets back on the road
Alicia Benko, mobile stylist with Haircuts on Wheels, starts colouring the hair of 92-year-old customer Helen Baumgard in the front yard of her Etobicoke home on Wednesday, June 20, 2021.
Defiant ex-leader Zuma compares South African judges to apartheid rulers
Former South African president Jacob Zuma addresses the media in his home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal on July 4, 2021. - South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma, ordered to surrender himself to start a 15-month jail term for contempt, said on July 4, 2021, he would not be doing so by the court-set deadline. "No need for me to go to jail today," he told journalists at his Nkandla homestead in Kwa-Zulu Natal province, where hundreds of his supporters are camped outside in solidarity. (Photo by Emmanuel Croset / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP via Getty Images)
Canada must face its deep systemic racism against Indigenous people
Illustration to go with Bob Joseph indigenous leaders interview series. Credit: Chief Lady Bird. ***PLEASE DO A V2 MANUAL COLOUR CORRECTION FOR PRINT.***
Prayers held for seven people who died in house fire east of Calgary
Mourners gather at the scene where seven people, including four children, have died in a house fire in Chestermere, Alta., just east of Calgary, Friday, July 2, 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Texas Gov. Abbott facing challenge from Tea Party firebrand West in GOP primary
FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2019, file photo, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gives his State of the State Address in the House Chamber in Austin, Texas. Republican Allen West, the former Florida congressman and firebrand who rode into office on the tea party wave a decade ago, said Sunday, July 4, 2021, that he will run for governor of Texas in a bid to again seize on restless anger from the right. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Cape Breton professor Charles MacDonald would leave the priesthood for love
Charles W. MacDonald, lives lived
How I found light in the darkness of ALS
Toronto FC fires coach Chris Armas after sixth straight loss
Toronto FC head coach Chris Armas, right, argues with an official during second half MLS soccer action against FC Cincinnati, in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, June 26, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Phelan M. Ebenhack
RCMP working to identify cause of Lytton, B.C., wildfire
RCMP officers man a roadblock on the Trans-Canada Highway as wildfire burns in Lytton, B.C., Friday, July 2, 2021. The BC Wildfire Service says there has been minimal growth in fire that destroyed much of the village of Lytton, B.C., in the past day .THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Cyprus forest fire leaves at least four dead
A firefighter douses the flames in an effort to contain a fire near the Kotsiatis area, on the outskirts of Cyprus' capital Nicosia on July 4, 2021. - Cyprus said a deadly forest fire that was the worst to hit the island in decades was close to being brought under control Sunday after water bombing by Greek and Israeli aircraft. (Photo by Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP) (Photo by IAKOVOS HATZISTAVROU/AFP via Getty Images)
Ship that blocked Suez Canal to be released as settlement is reached
(FILES) This file photo taken on March 29, 2021, shows a view of the Panama-flagged MV 'Ever Given' (operated by Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine) container ship, a 400-metre- (1,300-foot-)long and 59-metre wide vessel, as it remains lodged sideways impeding traffic across Egypt's Suez Canal waterway. - The megatanker that has been retained since it blocked Egypt's Suez Canal in March is to be released on July 7 as a deal is reached with the vessel's owners, the canal authority announced. (Photo by Ahmed HASAN / AFP) (Photo by AHMED HASAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Verstappen wins Austrian Grand Prix, seven-time champion Hamilton finishes fourth
SPIELBERG, AUSTRIA - JULY 04: Max Verstappen of the Netherlands driving the (33) Red Bull Racing RB16B Honda during the F1 Grand Prix of Austria at Red Bull Ring on July 04, 2021 in Spielberg, Austria. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)
For fully vaccinated Canadian travellers, border restrictions to begin easing
(FILES) In this file photo a car stops at a Canadian Customs booth in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on March 18, 2020. - All new cars and light-duty trucks in Canada will be required to be zero-emissions by 2035, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra announced on June 29, 2021, moving up the timeline for eliminating vehicle pollution. "Today, I'm announcing that we are accelerating our zero emission vehicles goal. By 2035, all new cars and light duty trucks sold in Canada will be zero emission vehicles -- 100 percent of them," Alghabra told a news conference. (Photo by Geoff Robins / AFP) (Photo by GEOFF ROBINS/AFP via Getty Images)
Ontario reports 213 new cases of COVID-19, nine deaths
A person waits to receive their COVID-19 vaccine during a drive-thru clinic at Richardson stadium in Kingston, Ont., on Friday, Jul. 2, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
Tokyo’s new COVID-19 infections hit highest in five weeks
*** BESTPIX *** TOPSHOT - A man walks past the Olympic Rings lit up at dusk in Yokohama on July 2, 2021. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)
Vatican says Pope Francis doing well after intestinal surgery
Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives to recite the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, July 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Philippine military’s worst air disaster kills 52, wounds 51
THIS CORRECTS THE NAME OF THE PROVINCE TO SULU, INSTEAD OF JOLO - In this photo released by the Joint Task Force - Sulu, rescuers search for bodies from the site where a Philippine military C-130 plane crashed in Patikul town, Sulu province, southern Philippines on Sunday, July 4, 2021. The Philippine air force C-130 aircraft carrying troops crashed in a southern province after missing the runway Sunday, killing more than a dozen military personnel while at least 40 were rescued from the burning wreckage, officials said. (Joint Task Force-Sulu via AP)
Miami condo collapse: Search back on after rest of South Florida condo demolished
A cloud of dust grows over the site after demolition teams brought down the unstable remainder of the Champlain Towers South condo building, at left, Sunday, July 4, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. The work to demolish the remains had suspended the search-and-rescue mission, but officials said Sunday it should eventually open up new areas for rescue teams to explore. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
England may soon abandon mask requirements, minister says
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson during his visit to Nissan plant in Sunderland, England, Thursday July 1, 2021. Johnson said unspecified “extra precautions” will be needed in coming weeks even as he voiced confidence Thursday that the remaining restrictions on social contact in England will be lifted on July 19. During a visit to the Nissan car plant in the north England city of Sunderland, Johnson said he is planning to reveal details of what the end of lockdown restrictions will look like in the coming days. (Jeff J Mitchell/Pool Photo via AP)
Ethiopia’s Tigray demands troop withdrawals for ceasefire talks
FILE PHOTO: A tank damaged during the fighting between Ethiopia's National Defense Force (ENDF) and Tigray Special Forces stands on the outskirts of Humera town in Ethiopia July 1, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo/File Photo
Israel arrests Palestinian rights lawyer who protested Abbas
Demonstrators close the road in front of riot police during a rally protesting the death of Palestinian Authority outspoken critic Nizar Banat, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, July 3, 2021. Hundreds of Palestinians gathered to demonstrate against President Mahmoud Abbas, hoping to inject new momentum into a protest movement sparked by the death of an outspoken critic in the custody of security forces. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Canadian startup Side Door aims to democratize the concert business
Henry_Beckwith-IMG_4509.jpeg Dan Mangan playing to an empty venue at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto Friday March 13, 2020. Credit - Henry Beckwith​
Serbian team member tests positive for COVID-19 on arriving for Tokyo Olympics
FILE PHOTO: A jogger runs past a newly installed Olympic rings for celebrating the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in Yokohama, Japan, June 30, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Two bodies discovered in Lytton, B.C., after wildfire, officials say
A helicopter pilot prepares to drop water on a wildfire burning in Lytton, B.C., on Friday, July 2, 2021. The B.C. Wildfire Service says the wildfire burning near Lytton, B.C., has grown since Friday night as another blaze forced more than 100 homes to be evacuated. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Death by a 30-slide deck? It’s time to kill PowerPoint presentations, say experts
Radhika Panjwani is a former journalist turned blogger in Toronto
Are dogs safe being driven in cars with no air conditioning?
A dog is seen in a car during a heat wave in Washington, U.S., July 20, 2019. REUTERS/Eric Thayer
July 4: ‘How much more do I have to do to prove that I belong?’ Readers respond to racism in Canada, plus other letters to the editor
Aruba Mahmud pauses at the memorial for the 4 members of a Muslim family who were run down in a terrorist attack, in London, Ont., Tuesday, June 15, 2021. While discrimination against Muslim women who wear a hijab is not a new phenomenon, Mahmud and other Canadian Muslim women say have been fearful of more violent attacks as Islamophobia takes another spike in the country. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Geoff Robins
The problem with hydration challenges? They’re based on a myth
Canada Cup National team member Rapha‘l Gagne, hydrates before the start of competition during the Canada Cup XC Race at Bear Mountain Resort in Victoria, B.C., March 5, 2016. Gagne won gold at the Pan Am Games in Toronto last year. Chad Hipolito For The Globe and Mail
Your lookahead horoscope: July 4
Cancer.
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