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Panic at an Indonesian soccer match after police fired tear gas to stop brawls left 129 dead, mostly trampled to death, police said Sunday.

Demonstrations were held in Canadian cities on Saturday in solidarity with people in Iran protesting over the repression of women’s rights following the death of Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the country’s morality police.

Angry protesters attacked the French Embassy in Burkina Faso’s capital Saturday after supporters of the West African nation’s new coup leader accused France of harbouring the ousted interim president, a charge French authorities vehemently denied.

A new Olympic cycle has begun, signaling the start of a four-year grind for Canada’s elite curlers who have hopes of wearing the maple leaf at the next Winter Games in 2026.

Former Canadian senator Don Meredith has been charged by Ottawa police with three counts of sexual assault and one count of criminal harassment.

Saskatchewan’s Minister of Policing and Public Safety Christine Tell says she does not want provincial police resources involved in a federal firearm buyback program, a position the federal government says is reckless.

Rescuers searched for survivors among the ruins of Florida homes flooded by Hurricane Ian, while authorities in the Carolinas began to assess damage from the storm’s second strike.

Some pharmacists say many people have questions about the timing of their annual flu shot, which will coincide with the availability of bivalent COVID-19 vaccines. Here’s what we know about this year’s flu shot.

Immigration has dominated political discourse in the last days and weeks of the campaign. Some see parallels between CAQ comments and former premier Jacques Parizeau blaming his 1995 referendum loss on “money and ethnic votes.”

Before the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea sprung massive leaks this week, spewing out tons of methane into the water and atmosphere, Europe had started planning for a long-term future without Russian gas — prompted by Putin’s war in Ukraine. 

Omicron continues to mutate and produce new strains that have been shown to better evade immunity and have the potential to drive new COVID waves.

For many runners, the race isn’t finished until they have that medal around their neck. But with mounting supply-chain problems and environmental concerns, some Ottawa-area event organizers are rethinking the bling.

‘Losing sucks,’ said Maryam Monsef, the former Trudeau cabinet minister who lost her seat in 2021. But like virtually every defeated member of Parliament before her, Monsef learned that losing isn’t quite the end of the world — and life after politics can be rewarding as well.

Glenn Mori kept expecting to see his father in his room in his retirement home even after his death.

An iconic Aston Martin DB5 replica used for stunts in the James Bond blockbuster No Time to Die sold for more than $4.4 million Cdn at Christie’s auction house in London.

A United Nations committee has found that Australia had violated the human rights of a group of Torres Strait Islanders by failing to adequately protect them from the impacts of climate change.

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