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Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak faces disciplinary action for displaying support for Ukraine invasion
Chris Kreider scores twice, powers NY Rangers past struggling Winnipeg Jets
New York Rangers' Chris Kreider (20) scores on Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) during the first period of NHL action in Winnipeg, Sunday, March 6, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Greenslade
Canada’s Leylah Fernandez fights off 5 match points, outlasts Osorio in Monterrey Open final
Tennis - Australian Open - Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia - January 19, 2022 Canada's Leylah Fernandez in action during her women's doubles first round match with New Zealand's Erin Routliffe against Australia's Lizette Cabrera and Priscilla Hon REUTERS/Morgan Sette
Canadians find novel ways to help Ukraine, including booking Airbnb lodgings they’ll never stay in
A factory and a store burn after having been bombarded in Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Frustration swells in Australia over slow flood relief, more rains to lash Sydney
FILE PHOTO: NSW Police Rescue are seen patrolling in floodwater at Windsor, north west of Sydney, Australia, March 3, 2022. AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE. AUSTRALIA OUT. NEW ZEALAND OUT./File Photo
Suddenly, the assumptions that have long fed emerging-markets enthusiasm look quite wrong
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to each other during their meeting in Beijing, China, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Putin on Friday arrived in Beijing for the opening of the Winter Olympic Games and talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, as the two leaders look to project themselves as a counterweight to the U.S. and its allies. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
International court to hear Ukraine case seeking halt to Russian invasion
Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee across the Irpin River in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Ukrainian opera performers sing the national anthem while volunteers help prepare for Russian attack
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Canada’s most decorated Winter Paralympian Brian McKeever competes in sixth Games
(FILE PHOTO) Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disabilty Nominee PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - MARCH 18: Brian McKeever waves to the crowd after collecting his Bronze medal for the 4x2.5km Open Relay Cross-country during day nine of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Games on March 18, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Naomi Baker/Getty Images)
Queretaro matches suspended by Mexican soccer league after brawl injures 26 people
People and soccer fans take part in a prayer vigil after a clash between soccer fans during a match between Queretaro and Atlas in Queretaro left at least 22 people injured, outside Jalisco Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico, March 5, 2022. Picture taken March 5, 2022. REUTERS/Fernando Carranza REFILE - CORRECTING INFORMATION
Some businesses are keeping proof-of-vaccination rules despite changing measures
Jimmy Staveris, manager of Dunn's Famous restaurant scans the COVID-19 QR code of a client in Montreal, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. As several provinces toy with scrapping their COVID-19 vaccine passport systems, experts say it's reasonable to reconsider the policy — but decisions shouldn't be made in haste. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Leafs desperately seek stability inside the crease
Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Jack Campbell (36) reacts after being scored on by the Vancouver Canucks during first period NHL action in Toronto on Saturday March 5, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Netflix, TikTok block services in Russia to avoid government crackdown
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 19, 2021, the Netflix logo is seen on the Netflix, Inc. building on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. - Streaming giant Netflix has suspended its service in Russia, US media reported on March 6, 2022, in protest of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
In Odesa, opera singers and perfurmers seek to defend city from Russian destruction
Volunteers fill sandbags to build barricades during Ukraine-Russia conflict, in the city of Odessa, Ukraine March 6, 2022. REUTERS/Igor Tkachenko
Baseball fans are mostly to blame for the MLB lockout
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Pieces of Her - what if your mom was a super-bad avenger?
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Death toll nears 6-million as COVID-19 pandemic enters third year
FILE - Registered nurse Rachel Chamberlin steps out of an isolation room where Fred Rutherford recovers from COVID-19 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H., Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. The official global death toll from COVID-19 is on the verge of eclipsing 6 million — underscoring that the pandemic, now in its third year, is far from over. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Mackenzie Investments names new CEO as McInerney announces retirement
Mackenzie Investments CEO, Barry McInerney is photographed in his Toronto office on August 1, 2017. JENNIFER ROBERTS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
I love sitting in my car and watching the ocean - and I’m not the only one
Zelensky made a ‘desperate’ plea for foreign warplanes. Here’s why Ukraine needs them to fight Russia’s invasion
(FILES) This file picture shows a serviceman guarding the Ukrainian SU-27 plane in Ozerne air base, in Zhytomyr region in northern Ukraine on December 6, 2018, as a pilot was killed on December 15, 2018 in a crash in central Ukraine. - A Ukrainian fighter pilot died when his plane, a Su-27 fighter, crashed during a training flight, the army said on December 15, 2018 at around 1300 GMT. It is the second fatal accident in two months in the country, the Ukrainian military announced. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP)SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images
Woman killed in attack at B.C. university campus remembered as kind, helpful
Harmandeep Kaur, shown in a family handout photo, died after being attacked last weekend at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia, where she worked as a security guard. THE CANADIAN PRESS-HO
Carol Noriko Genn was very good at teaching the artists in her life how to thrive
Carol Noriko Shimozawa Genn; lives lived
U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner arrested in Russia on drug charges
FILE PHOTO: Brittney Griner of the United States in action with Sandrine Gruda of France at Saitama Super Arena during their Tokyo 2020 Olympic women's basketball Group B game in Saitama, Japan August 2, 2021. REUTERS/Sergio Perez/File Photo
Convoy protesting COVID-19 mandates begins beltway circuit surrounding Washington
A crowd of supporters fill the New Design Road bridge over I-270 in Frederick County as the “People’s Convoy” passed through the county as they made their way from Hagerstown to Washington, Sunday, March 6, 2022. (Bill Green/The Frederick News-Post via AP)
Photos capture desperate faces of civilians fleeing Irpin, Ukraine
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Germany to spend $220-billion for industrial transformation by 2026
Employees work on a hydrogen fuel cell at the commissioning of the Hydrogenics Cummins GmbH factory in Herten, western Germany on March 3, 2022. - Hydrogenics Cummins GmbH supplies Alstom trains, who produces world's first hydrogen fuel-powered passenger trains. North-Rhine Westphalias State Minister President Hendrik Wuest is visiting three companies in the Ruhr region whose innovation projects are setting important milestones on the path to the climate-neutral economy of the future today. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP) (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)
Ontario is running out of landfill space. Will it embrace the circular economy or sleepwalk into a crisis?
Ted Comiskey, the Major Ingersoll, Ontario, poses for a photo in front of a quarry, that was going to be used for a garbage dump, February 5, 2022. Photo by Brett Gundlock/ The Globe and Mail
Quebec doctors are providing virtual training for Ukrainian health-care workers
McGill University's campus is seen Tuesday, November 14, 2017 in Montreal. A group of Quebec's doctors are providing virtual training to Ukraine for basic life support and emergency life-saving procedures that can be done by non-surgeons.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
More privacy breaches in handling of military sex misconduct settlement deal
A Canadian flag patch is shown on a soldier's shoulder in Trenton, Ont., on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. The company administering the federal government’s $900-million settlement deal with Armed Forces members and veterans who experienced sexual misconduct while in uniform has admitted to having released private information about more claimants. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
Alleged plot against Michigan governor signals ominous shift, say experts
Militia members wait inside the Senate chamber at the Capitol building during the "American Patriot Rally on Capitol Lawn" protest in Lansing, Mich., Thursday April 30, 2020, during the coronavirus outbreak. Experts say far-right groups in the U.S. are taking a more dangerously radical turn as four men go on trial in an alleged scheme to kidnap Michigan's governor. (Nicole Hester/Mlive.com/Ann Arbor News via AP, File)
Newfoundland-Ukrainian band pushes back against Russian narratives with album launch, packed shows
Brian Cherwick (right) and Matt Hender, shown in a handout photo taken on Oct. 16, 2021, are part of St. John's, N.L.-based band The Kubasonics, who play what they call "Ukrainian-Canadian speed-folk." The band released a new album this weekend with two sold-out shows and Cherwick said he felt that by playing he shows, he was disproving Russian narratives about Ukraine not having its own culture. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Christopher Deacon **MANDATORY CREDIT**
U.S., Europeans discussing ban on Russian oil imports, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says
FILE PHOTO: A general view of the liquefied natural gas plant operated by Sakhalin Energy at Prigorodnoye on the Pacific island of Sakhalin, Russia July 15, 2021. Picture taken July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Vladimir Soldatkin/File Photo
The Batman earns $128-Million for second-biggest pandemic debut
This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Zoe Kravitz, left, and Robert Pattinson in a scene from "The Batman." (Jonathan Olley/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)
Why Israel is assuming the mediator role between Russia, Ukraine
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 6, 2022. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)
Quebec reports nine more COVID deaths, hospitalizations drop from 20 patients
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is prepared at the Palais des Congres, as efforts continue to help slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada March 15, 2021. REUTERS/Andrej Ivanov
Ontario reports 684 COVID-19 patients in hospital, 247 in ICU on Sunday
Doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared at a one-day pop-up vaccination clinic at the Muslim Neighbour Nexus Mosque, in Mississauga, Ont., on April 29, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
Johnny Gaudreau scores 37 seconds into overtime as Flames beat Avalanche 4-3
Calgary Flames left wing Johnny Gaudreau, left, scores against Colorado Avalanche goaltender Pavel Francouz during overtime in an NHL hockey game Saturday, March 5, 2022, in Denver. Calgary won 4-3. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Many Ontario police services keeping COVID-19 vaccine mandates for now
A Toronto Police Services logo is shown at headquarters, in Toronto, on Friday, August 9, 2019. Ontario police services that implemented mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policies — under which some employees faced possible termination for not getting the shots — are sticking with the requirement for now.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
Jin Young Ko wins on return to LPGA Tour after three-month break; Henderson ties for sixth
SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE - MARCH 06: Jin Young Ko of South Korea poses with the HSBC Women's World Championship trophy as she celebrates after winning during the Final Round of the HSBC Women's World Championship at Sentosa Golf Club on March 06, 2022 in Singapore. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
GM takes new approach to worker diversity as Oshawa production returns
Auto worker Angely Labo works in the body shop producing the Chevrolet Silverado, at the GM Assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont., Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Canada adds bronze medals in Alpine super-G, cross country at Beijing Paralympics
Alana Ramsay of Canada celebrates during the flower ceremony in the women's super-G, standing, at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, Sunday, March 6, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Cousins used trapping skills, body spray to survive stranded on northern Saskatchewan lake
A February 2022 handout photo shows Julian Herman as he dries out his gear and Ron Hyggen preparing to saw wood after their snowmobiles got stuck in slushy snow on Triveet Lake. The two men and another cousin, Thomas Barnett, used traditional trapping skills and Old Spice body spray to start a fire to keep warm while waiting to be rescued. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Thomas Barnett, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
Leonard Cohen’s estate sells his song catalogue to management company Hipgnosis
FILE PHOTO: Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen performs at the Glastonbury Festival 2008 in Somerset, southwest England, June 29, 2008. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File Photo
Canadian team makeup reflects gender gap in Winter Paralympic Games
YANQING, CHINA - MARCH 06: Michaela Gosselin of Team Canada competes in the Para Alpine Skiing Women's Super-G Standing during day two of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics at Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre on March 06, 2022 in Yanqing, China. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)
14 workers confirmed dead in China coal mine collapse
Foreign nationals who fled Ukraine team up to help others escape, amid reports of discrimination
Students from Congo and China, who were all living in Ukraine, wait for friends to arrive after crossing into Poland at the pedestrian border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Feb. 28, 2022. Africans who had been living in Ukraine say they were stuck for days at crossings into neighboring European Union countries, held up by Ukrainian authorities who pushed them to the ends of long lines and even beat them, while letting Ukrainians through. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)
Richmond, B.C., hotel restaurant Bruno struggles to please all
Truffle lavender duck at Bruno Restaurant & Bar at Versante Hotel, in Richmond, B.C., on Monday, February 28, 2022. Darryl Dyck/The Globe and Mail
Ukraine presses west for more sanctions on Russia as number of refugees expected to reach 1.5 million
A group of children evacuated from an orphanage in Zaporizhzhia wait to board a train for their transfer to Poland after fleeing the ongoing Russian invasion at the main train station in Lviv, Ukraine, March 5, 2022. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Individual Mounties should be compelled to testify at N.S. mass shooting inquiry, experts say
RCMP officers prepare to take a person into custody at a gas station in Enfield, N.S., Sunday, April 19, 2020. Public trust in the inquiry investigating the mass shooting in Nova Scotia almost two years ago will be undermined if the RCMP officers involved are not compelled to testify, legal experts say. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tim Krochak
Russia strikes Ukrainian military air base with long-range weapons
A view a part of a rocket is pictured after the shelling is said by Russian forces in Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv on March 3, 2022. - Ukraine and Russia agreed to create humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians on March 3, in a second round of talks since Moscow invaded last week, negotiators on both sides said. (Photo by Sergey BOBOK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images)
Russian assault halts Mariupol evacuations for a second time
Smoke rises after shelling by Russian forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
South Korea will implement export controls against Belarus over support of Russia
Protesters march during a rally supporting Ukraine for peace and safety in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, March 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Seven dead after tornadoes tore through central Iowa
Cleanup efforts are underway in Winterset, Iowa, on Sunday, March 6, 2022, after a tornado tore through an area southwest of town on Saturday. (Bryon Houlgrave/The Des Moines Register via AP)
Fleeing sanctions, Russian oligarchs seek safe harbour for superyachts
FILE PHOTO: The Dilbar, a luxury yacht owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, sails in the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey May 29, 2019. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik
Footage captures a shell exploding near civilians fleeing Irpin, killing at least three
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Physicians who spread misinformation may be eroding trust in health care system, experts say
People queue up for their COVID-19 vaccine booster shots at a clinic inside the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, as the latest Omicron variant emerges as a threat, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Cole Burston NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
Allies consider sending warplanes to Poland if Warsaw delivers Soviet-era jets to Ukraine
Rafale jet fighters of the French Air Force patrol the airspace over Poland on March 4, 2022, as part of Nato's surveillance system conducted in collaboration with the military aviation of other countries of the Alliance. (Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP) (Photo by NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images)
In photos: Civilians try to flee as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues
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A destroyed car is seen in front of a house damaged by shelling in the village of Marhalivka in the Kyiv region of Ukraine March 6.
Russian forces target civilians trying to flee besieged Ukrainian cities
Local residents cross a destroyed bridge as they evacuate from the town of Irpin, after days of heavy shelling on the only escape route used by locals, while Russian troops advance towards the capital, in Irpin, near Kyiv, Ukraine March 7, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Limited Russian ceasefire revived in Ukraine; talks planned
Smoke rises after shelling by Russian forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
‘Speaking into a black hole’: Honesty may not be the best policy during exit interviews
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March 6: ‘Doubtless there will be a need for loans of mansions, private islands and yachts.’ The party’s over for Russia’s oligarchs, plus other letters to the editor
FILE PHOTO: The Dilbar, a luxury yacht owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, sails in the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey May 29, 2019. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik
Russia-Ukraine updates: Here’s what happened Mar. 6
People cross an improvised path under a destroyed bridge while fleeing the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Sunday, March 6, 2022. In Irpin, near Kyiv, a sea of people on foot and even in wheelbarrows trudged over the remains of a destroyed bridge to cross a river and leave the city. (AP Photo/Oleksandr Ratushniak)
Watching Ukraine, Bosnians remember the trauma of Sarajevo and their war
A general view of a residential building devastated during the Bosnian war in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Friday, March 4, 2022. Survivors of the 1992-95 siege of Sarajevo cannot look away from what they say is a very similar tragedy now unfolding in Ukraine. Bosnian Serbs laid siege to Sarajevo in the early 1990s, leaving some 350,000 people trapped in the city, subjected to daily shelling and sniper attacks and cut off from regular access to electricity, food, water, medicine, and the outside world.(AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Your lookahead horoscope: March 6
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At least 22 injured in brawl at Mexican soccer match
Fans of Queretaro and Atlas clash during a Mexican soccer league match at the Corregidora stadium, in Queretaro, Mexico, Saturday, March 5, 2022. The match was suspended after fans invaded the field. (AP Photo/Eduardo Gomez Reyna)
Trucks, RVs and cars converge on outskirts of Washington to protest COVID-19 restrictions
People participate in a rally while hundreds of vehicles including 18-wheeler trucks, RVs and other cars are parked as part of a rally at Hagerstown Speedway after some of them arrived as part of a convoy that traveled across the country headed to Washington D.C. to protest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) related mandates and other issues in Hagerstown, Maryland, U.S., March 5, 2022. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith
Six dead, four injured as tornado sweeps through Iowa
New U.S. ambassador Nicholas Burns arrives in Beijing amid tense relations over Taiwan, Ukraine
Nicholas Burns, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be Ambassador to China, testifies at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times)
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