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Behind every team competing in the FIFA World Cup is a community of supporters and superfans rallying behind them. While Team Canada battles it out on the pitch, behind them are the superfans making sure that support is seen. One of those fans is Saskatoon resident Lee Kormish. “It’s the World Cup. It’s every four…
Friday is the day circled on many Canadian soccer fans’ calendars, as the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup gets underway — including Canada’s first game just 90 minutes after. The matches of the 104-game tournament began Thursday, with Mexico playing South Africa and Korea playing Czechia in Mexico City. In total, Canada will…
The first FIFA World Cup game in Toronto is set to take place on Friday when Canada takes on Bosnia and Herzegovina. But if you aren’t attending a match at Toronto Stadium or couldn’t get tickets to FIFA Fan Festival, not to worry, there are plenty of other places in the city to catch a…
Environmental authorities are investigating what caused the death of a popular Port River dolphin, the carcass of which was the latest among several to have been found on the Adelaide metropolitan coastline. Warning: This story contains images that may be distressing to some readers. A Department for Environment and Water spokesperson said park rangers were…
Round 15 of the NRL season continues on Friday night with the Dolphins hosting the Sydney Roosters at Lang Park. Both teams are under strength given their heavy State of Origin representation, but the Tricolours will hand an NRL debut to young gun Rex Bassingthwaite. Bassingthwaite, a former schoolboy rugby star, was man of the…
A woman who allegedly dealt cannabis in exchange for cat food has been arrested after police uncovered a trove of weapons, drugs and gold bullion in her Northern Territory home. NT Police said they started to suspect something fishy after receiving multiple reports of teenagers stealing cat food from a supermarket in the Palmerston suburb…
Unions have won backing from senior Labor ministers over their threat to bring the nation’s busiest export port to a standstill with strike action against BHP. Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King said while she hoped it would not come to a strike, there was nothing wrong with unions taking action at Port Hedland in Western…
At least two people have been killed during a Taliban crackdown on a protest in Afghanistan against the arrests of women for allegedly violating dress code regulations. Eyewitnesses said they saw Taliban police open fire during a demonstration attended by about 100 to 150 people against the arrests of women over the weekend in Herat,…
Russian-installed officials in southern Ukraine have said that Ukrainian drones are dropping mines onto the highway, trying to create “the illusion of a blockade.” Vladimir Saldo, the governor of the occupied part of the southern Kherson region, even compared it to the “Nazi siege of Leningrad” during World War II, describing the menacing of the…
An Indigenous woman from Winnipeg who killed her best friend and roommate in a drunk driving accident three years ago will be allowed to serve her sentence at home, largely because of her racial background and “life circumstances … shaped by a history of trauma and discrimination,” a judge ruled last month. Read More