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May 1

Muslims mark Eid al-Fitr holiday with joy, worry
Muslims wearing protective masks pray at National Mosque in the morning of the Eid al-Fitr, marking the end the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, May 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
European Union energy ministers hold crisis talks following Russian gas cuts
A Russian ruble coin is pictured in front of St. Basil's cathedral in central Moscow, on April 28, 2022. - A Russian official said Thursday that the ruble will soon be introduced in areas of Ukraine under Moscow's control, despite Russia earlier insisting it was not seeking to occupy captured territory. A civilian and military administrator of the Russian-controlled region of Kherson in southern Ukraine said Moscow would introduce its currency in the region within the coming days. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)
Two people rescued 50 hours after building collapses in central China
This photo released by Xinhua News Agency, shows the site of a collapsed self-constructed residential building in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province on April 29, 2022. (Chen Zeguo /Xinhua via AP)
Conservative Party leadership rivals gather for the first time to make their pitch
Jean Charest speaks to supporters at a campaign event in Laval, Que., Thursday, March 24, 2022. Charest is releasing his plan for the environment as he travels the country, selling memberships in hopes that enough people mark him as their main choice to lead the party. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
The Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames are back in the NHL playoffs. Here’s what you need to know
Source photos: Amber Bracken/The Canadian Press, Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports, Claus Andersen/Getty Images
Archbishop of Canterbury apologizes to residential school survivors for Anglican Church’s role in ‘building hell’
In the foreground are Chakastaypasin Band Chief Calvin Sanderson (in the vest) and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rev. Justin Welby on Saturday April 30, 2022 at the Bernard Constant Community School on the James Smith Cree Nation. Credit: Prince Albert Grand Council *do not have name of Chief standing behind the Archbishop.
Netflix drops Meghan Markle’s animated series ‘Pearl’
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: The Netflix logo is seen on their office in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson//File Photo/File Photo
‘Rolling Thunder’ biker convoy leaves Ottawa after weekend of demonstrations
Rolling Thunder protestors are seen in Ottawa, Ont. on Saturday, April 30, 2022. Spencer Colby/The Globe and Mail
China’s COVID-19 hard line eats into everything from Teslas to tacos
A nearly deserted street in Shanghai, April 25, 2022. As the lockdown of Shanghai and outbreaks in Beijing and elsewhere batter the economy, ChinaÕs leader, Xi Jinping, keeps a distance from the politically charged issue. (The New York Times)
Maple Leafs face huge expectations as the puck drops on their best chance at the Stanley Cup in decades
TAMPA, FLORIDA - APRIL 21: Andrei Vasilevskiy #88 of the Tampa Bay Lightning stops a shot from Kyle Clifford #43 of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first period during a game at Amalie Arena on April 21, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
Canadian women down Honduras to reach quarterfinals of CONCACAF U-17 Championship
Canada's Amanda Allen (7) celebrates after scoring against Honduras during CONCACAF U-17 Championship soccer action, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in a Sunday, May 1, 2022, handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Canada Soccer, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
Kyle Connor’s 47th goal of season rallies Jets to season-ending 4-3 win over Kraken
Winnipeg Jets' Blake Wheeler (26) celebrates his goal against the Seattle Kraken with Nikolaj Ehlers (27) during the third period of NHL action in Winnipeg on Sunday May 1, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Greenslade
Don’t cheat at chess. Odds are, you’ll get caught
Santiago Espinal’s RBI single backs stellar Kevin Gausman outing as Blue Jays top Astros 3-2
Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Matt Chapman (26) scores on a single by second baseman Santiago Espinal (5) past Houston Astros catcher Martin Maldonado during the seventh inning of MLB action in Toronto on Sunday, May 1, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
Rapid rate hikes critical to ‘break’ rising inflation expectations, says former BoC governor David Dodge
David Parkinson
Suncor’s safety record helped make it a target for activist investors
Andrew Willis
After 29 years of failure, is Canadian hockey now defined by losing?
Cathal Kelly
For Ukrainians, buying a car becomes a challenge amid dwindling supply and gas shortages
Lucie Hava waits in line at a gas station in Lviv with her husband, Amir Azamat, and their six-month old son, Amir. Lviv Ukraine 01 May 2022 Anton Skyba The globe and Mail
Royals mark seventh birthday of Princess Charlotte with new photos
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Japan is loosening its tourism travel ban, but many Canadians wanting to visit family there still face near-impossible hurdles
YONAGUNI, JAPAN - APRIL 13: A man wearing a face mask waits to board a plane at Yonaguni Airport on April 13, 2022 on Yonaguni, Japan. As Japans westernmost inhabited island, just 111 kilometres away from Taiwan and located close to the disputed Senkaku Islands, Yonaguni has seen an increased military presence as the Japanese government looks to ward off Chinese activity in nearby territory claimed by both countries. Japans Air Self-Defense Force has recently announced that it will permanently station a mobile radar unit on the island, adding to an existing military radar station which allows monitoring of the Chinese mainland and tracking of Chinese ships and aircraft in the area. Japans Ground Self-Defense Force also plans to deploy an electronic warfare unit to Yonaguni in 2023. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
Polar bear shot dead after venturing into residential area in Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula
In this image courtesy of Sophie Bonneville, a polar bear roams a field in Madeline-Centre, Quebec, Canada, on April 30, 2022. - A polar bear was spotted Saturday in a region of Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River, leading wildlife officers and police to alert residents of Madeline-Centre in the Gaspé Peninsula, more than 800kms (497 miles) east of Montreal, to the highly unusual visit. "How did a bear cross over the ice pack, swim and get here? People don't even see them on the north coast!", Sophie Bonneville wondered. "With climate change, anything can happen," said Sophie Bonneville, who had time to take a few photos of the animal before it headed into a wooded area. "What's worrying is why (the bear) is here? Is it global warming? Is it just nature's mistake?" (Photo by Sophie Bonneville / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Sophie Bonneville" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by SOPHIE BONNEVILLE/AFP via Getty Images)
Nadal and Djokovic slam Wimbledon ban on Russian players
MADRID, SPAIN - MAY 01: Novak Djokovic of Serbia waits with his coach Goran Ivanisevic before going on court for a practice session on day four of the Mutua Madrid Open at La Caja Magica on May 01, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)
U.S. president Joe Biden calls former vice-president Walter Mondale ‘giant’ of political history
President Joe Biden speaks at the memorial service for former Vice President Walter Mondale, Sunday, May 1, 2022, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
United Nations chief calls for debt relief, post-COVID investment on W. Africa trip
Abandoned water canisters lie on the arid ground near the village of Tata Bathily in Matam, Senegal March 30, 2022. Picture taken March 30, 2022. REUTERS/Ngouda Dione NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
Italy, Greece relax COVID-19 restrictions before peak summer tourist season
People wear face masks as they step off a public transport bus in Rome, Sunday May 1, 2022. Face masks, for the first time since the start of the pandemic, are no longer required in supermarkets, bars, restaurants, shops and most workplaces throughout Italy, but remain mandatory on public transport, planes, trains and ships, theatres, cinemas, concert halls and for indoor sporting events. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
The best of April TV and where to find it on streaming
John Doyle
Bomb experts disable ‘suspicious device’ along Vancouver marathon route, police say
A Vancouver Police Department patch is seen on an officer's uniform in Vancouver, on Saturday, January 9, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
I wish I could have watched my Mom grow old
Plane crash kills four near Sioux Lookout, Ont., Transportation Board investigating
Ontario's provincial flag flies in Ottawa, Monday, July 6, 2020. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating a plane crash Friday that killed four people near Sioux Lookout, Ont. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
The Judds, Ray Charles join the Country Music Hall of Fame
FILE - Singers Naomi Judd and daughter Wynonna Judd preform during the 5th Annual TV Land Awards, Saturday, April 14, 2007, in Santa Monica, Calif. Naomi Judd, the Kentucky-born matriarch of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, has died, her family announced Saturday, April 30, 2022. She was 76. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas, File)
Researchers returning for assessment of last US slave ship
Traffic passes a mural along Africatown Boulevard in Mobile, Alabama, on Thursday, May 30, 2019. An archaeological report will be released Thursday, May 30, 2019 on the discovery of what experts believe is the last ship known to have brought enslaved people from Africa to the United States. The event in the Africatown community of Mobile also will include a community celebration and commemoration event marking the discovery of the schooner Clotilda , according to the Alabama Historical Commission. (AP photo/Kevin McGill)
Israel blocks Palestinian activist from traveling abroad
FILE - Palestinian American civil society activist Ubai Aboudi holds a copy of the Palestinian police report that includes the investigation and charges against him, at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 14, 2021. In April 2022, Israel prevented Aboudi, the director of a Palestinian civil-society group, from traveling abroad to attend a professional conference in Mexico without explanation. He is the head of Bisan, one of six Palestinian groups that Israel last year designated a terrorist organization. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)
Plastic pollution accelerating the consequences of climate change in Canada’s Arctic, according to new research
Jennifer Provencher, wildlife health specialist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, at Westboro Beach in Ottawa, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Provencher looks out over the Ottawa River with her binoculars Wednesday. Photo by Ashley Fraser/Globe and Mail
A landmark Swedish case is trying Iran for war crimes during the 1988 mass executions
A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidential office shows Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi taking part in a rally marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) day in Tehran on April 29, 2022. - An initiative started by the late Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Quds Day is held annually on the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. (Photo by Iranian Presidency / AFP) / === RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO / IRANIAN PRESIDENCY" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS === (Photo by -/Iranian Presidency/AFP via Getty Images)
Ontario reports 17 new deaths linked to COVID-19 as hospitalizations dip
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
Playoffs with full buildings is ‘return to normalcy’ for NHL
FILE - In this March 12, 2020, file photo, a woman wearing a mask pulls her suitcase in front of Scotiabank Arena, home of the Toronto Maple Leafs NHL hockey club, in Toronto Scotiabank Arena is one of the possible locations the NHL has zeroed in on to host playoff games if it can return amid the coronavirus pandemic. The league will ultimately decide on two or three locations for games, with government regulations, testing and COVID-19 frequency among the factors for the decision that should be coming within the next three to four weeks. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
Hockey Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur lies in state at Montreal’s Bell Centre
Former hockey star Guy Lafleur poses next to one of 10 paintings of moments from his career by artist Mario Beaudoin Tuesday, May 18, 2004 in Montreal. Montreal Canadiens legend Guy Lafleur has died at age 70. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Quitting Russian oil by late summer realistic, Germany says
FILE PHOTO: View shows railroad freight cars, including oil tanks, in Omsk, Russia May 1, 2020. REUTERS
Amazon, union face off in a rematch election in New York
FILE - Amazon JFK8 distribution center union organizer Jason Anthony speaks to media on Friday, April 1, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The top lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board said Thursday, April 7, she will ask the board to rule that mandatory meetings some companies hold to persuade their workers reject unions is in violation of federal labor law. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
Indigenous women more likely to face violence if they were in care as a child, report says
Sheridan Martin from the Gitxsan Nation, whose sister Cindy Martin went missing along Highway of Tears, speaks during Vancouver's annual Women's Memorial March for missing and murdered indigenous women and gender diverse people, to honour the memory of all those in the Downtown Eastside who have died due to physical, mental, emotional and spiritual violence, in Vancouver, Canada, February 14, 2022. REUTERS/Amy Romer
Cities in Western Canada consider gondolas as part of transit, tourism plans
Jeffrey Hansen-Carlson, president of Prairie Sky Gondola, is pictured at the location for a proposed urban gondola in Edmonton on Friday, April 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Pope Francis defends media freedom, pays tribute to killed reporters
Pope Francis waves during Regina Caeli prayer, in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, May 1, 2022. Vatican Media/­Handout via REUTERS
Few traces of ‘Rolling Thunder’ rally left in Ottawa after church service
People stand next to graffiti that was spray painted on the Capital City Bikers' Church following the Motorcycle-borne "Rolling Thunder Ottawa" protest in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada May 1, 2022. REUTERS/Patrick Doyle
Britain asks North Sea oil and gas sector to set out plan to reinvest profits
FILE PHOTO: A section of the BP Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) oil platform is seen in the North Sea, around 100 miles east of Aberdeen in Scotland February 24, 2014. REUTERS/Andy Buchanan/pool/File Photo
COVID-19 is killing fewer people, but Quebec still reporting dozens of deaths daily
Maggie Quart Robitaille, front right, who recently died of COVID-19, is pictured with her husband, Pierre Robitaille, front left, and her sister, Percylla Battista, along with her brother-in-law, Mario Battista, in this undated handout image provided by Percylla Battista. Percylla Battista said she last spoke to her sister a week before she tested positive for COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Percylla Battista **MANDATORY CREDIT**
Evidence mounts of GOP involvement in Trump election schemes
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo insurrections loyal to President Donald Trump riot outside the Capitol in Washington. The House panel investigation of the riot at the U.S. Capitol issued sweeping document requests on Friday, Aug. 27, to social media companies, expanding the committee’s investigation as it seeks to examine the events leading to January’s insurrection. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
As Beijing tightens COVID-19 curbs, hard-hit Shanghai sees signs of life
Workers in protective suits ride an electric tricycle on a street during lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Shanghai, China, May 1, 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song
May Day rallies in Europe honor workers, protest govts
Protesters take part in the annual May Day (Labour Day) rally marking the international day of the workers on May 1, 2022 in Toulouse, southern France. (Photo by Valentine CHAPUIS / AFP) (Photo by VALENTINE CHAPUIS/AFP via Getty Images)
Pickleball’s growth raises a racket in Victoria, amid bans over noise complaints
From left to right, Tony Gibb Joanne Rakers, Tania Brachmayer and Peter Brachmayer, play a game of pickleball at a court in the Central Park neighbourhood of Victoria, B.C., on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Ukrainian civilians evacuated from Mariupol steel plant
Civilians who left the area near Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol walk at a temporary accommodation centre during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the village of Bezimenne in the Donetsk Region, Ukraine May 1, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Why do we switch to summer gas and why is it more expensive?
FILE — Evening traffic in Atlanta, June 8, 2021. When prices soared years ago, Americans launched broad efforts to wean the nation off oil and gas to protect households from price swings. But then supply rose and plans fizzled. (Audra Melton/The New York Times)
Should companies hire for a culture fit? Yes, but how about we call it a match for values
Cropped shot of an unidentifiable businesswoman extending her arm for a handshake
May 1: ‘Number of times climate change appears: one.’ Ontario budget 2022, plus other letters to the editor
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, left, and Vic Fedell Minister, of Economic Development, react as Minister of Finance Peter Bethlenfalvy delivers the 2022 budget at the Queen's Park Legislature in Toronto on Thursday, April 28, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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