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'A specific form of anti-Black racism:' Scholars want Canadian apology for slavery
More than a year after Canada proclaimed Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day, Black leaders and scholars are renewing their calls for Ottawa to make a formal apology for the country's history of slavery and it...
Jul 31, 2022
It's coming home! England rejoices as soccer women win Euros
LONDON (AP) - "It's coming home!" England won a major international soccer tournament on Sunday for the first time in more than half a century. The fact it was the women's team, not the men's, that en...
Jul 31, 2022
It's coming home! England rejoices as soccer women win Euros
LONDON (AP) - "It's coming home!" England won a major international soccer tournament on Sunday for the first time in more than half a century. The fact it was the women's team, not the men's, that en...
Jul 31, 2022
Monkeypox: Experts at AIDS conference say the current global response is not enough
MONTREAL - A panel of scientists and activists at the AIDS 2022 conference in Montreal are urging worldwide governments to ramp up resources to handle the monkeypox outbreaks. The plea comes as intern...
Jul 31, 2022
Tony Cote Summer Games: summary and results
The 2022 Tony Cote First Nations Summer Games wrapped up in Saskatoon and on the Whitecap Dakota First Nation this past weekend where Saskatchewan First Nation youth from across the province competed ...
Jul 31, 2022
England beats Germany 2-1 in European Championship final
LONDON (AP) - England beat Germany 2-1 in the final of the European Championship after extra time on Sunday to win its first major women's soccer title. Chloe Kelly scored the winning goal on a reboun...
Jul 31, 2022
Olympic champ Mitchell races to her third cycling silver of the Commonwealth Games
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom - A day after Kelsey Mitchell joked that she was "consistently silver," Canada's Olympic champion added one more. The 28-year-old from Sherwood Park, Alta., won silver in tr...
Jul 31, 2022
Berrios strikes out six in seven innings in Blue Jays' 4-1 victory over Tigers
TORONTO - Matt Chapman drilled a two-out, two-run homer in the second inning, and Jose Berrios struck out six in seven innings to push the Toronto Blue Jays to a 4-1 win against the Detroit Tigers on ...
Jul 31, 2022
England beats Germany 2-1 in European Championship final
LONDON (AP) - England beat Germany 2-1 in the final of the European Championship after extra time on Sunday to win its first major women's soccer title. Chloe Kelly scored the winning goal on a reboun...
Jul 31, 2022
Bill Russell, NBA great and Celtics legend, dies at 88
BOSTON (AP) - Bill Russell, the NBA great who anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years - the last two as the first Black head coach in any major U.S. sport - and marched...
Jul 31, 2022