-- "The threats — a chilling echo of the murder of a Colombian player more than three decades ago — against Campaz, 26, began pouring in after he kicked an open shot over the crossbar in extra time during Colombia’s round of 16 match against Switzerland." --
-- "Somalian soccer referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, 33, who was set to officiate games at the World Cup has been blocked from entering the US over his alleged links to terrorist organizations. The US government considers Somalia to be a 'terrorist safe haven,' where bad actors 'plan, facilitate and conduct their operations.'" --'Well, nobody's perfect,' says Comrade Chow...
-- "Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says a Somali man who was set to referee at the World Cup but was deemed inadmissible for admission to the U.S. would be welcome to come referee in Toronto." --Chow would not have been privy to the reasons U.S. officials denied Artan admission to the U.S.
Michael Fazal, a 31-year-old gay man living in Toronto, is the face of the Charter challenge against the federal government, pushing for an end to what he calls a 'deeply hurtful, stigmatizing, and discriminatory' policy that prohibits potentially lifesaving organ donations from gay and bisexual men.
-- "President and CEO Roger Krone told the Associated Press there was 'some backlash,' but said there was a small spike in membership after announcing the rebranding in May. 'The fact that we were going with a more kind of gender-neutral name, a lot of people kind of wanted to know more about it.'" --
-- "At least 30 people were killed and another 60 injured in a stampede at the world’s largest religious gathering early Wednesday, police said, as millions of pilgrims rushed to dip in sacred waters during the Maha Kumbh festival in northern India. Deadly stampedes are relatively common around Indian religious festivals, where large crowds gather in small areas." --
-- "The White House has still not released its visitor logs for July, the month President Biden gave up his re-election bid, leaving questions about who was seeing and advising the president before he made the historic decision to drop out." --Oh, boy... this is gonna be fun...
-- "I ask you to respond publicly to one simple question: if you knew then what you know now about the laptop, would you still have signed the October 19, 2020 letter?" --
-- "Mississauga city council has voted to keep its residential street sports ban in place, meaning hockey and basketball on the road will remain out of bounds." --
LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- "The International Olympic Committee will not change its rules to let boxing great Manny Pacquaio compete at the Paris Games aged five years beyond the entry limit." --
-- Ahead of Super Bowl LVII, the NFL featured the singing of the so-called 'Black National Anthem' to be sung before the proper national anthem." --Don't stop now...
-- "The pictures that were shared on the school's messaging app showed toddlers in blackface." --
-- "Three children and three adults were killed when their throats were slit by kite strings during the annual Uttarayan Kite Festival in the Indian state of Gujarat. The dangerous kite strings are often coated with glass powder, or even lined with metal, making them razor-sharp." --BONUS DARWIN AWARDS...
-- "Two men were killed by knife-wielding roosters in separate freak cockfighting mishaps in India this week, according to news reports." --
-- "The magazine released the cover picture of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on Wednesday, in which they appear with eerily glowing smooth skin, creepy bright eyes and, in Harry’s case, suspiciously fuller hair." --
"But while Carlsson describes experiencing less racism in the chess community than in day-to-day life, calling chess "a vacation from the real world," his shocking descriptions of racist harassment while competing in international tournaments have already galvanized the chess world."RELATED: Oh my gawd... you can't say that!
"NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace on Tuesday night defended his and the sport’s reaction to the “noose” discovered in his garage in light of FBI findings that the rope was actually a garage door pull."
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution was reported desecrated on Friday, as attacks on monuments continued nationwide in association with Black Lives Matter protests.Well, who doesn't have a problem with that?
Engravings on the monument include phrases such as: “Freedom is a light for which many men have died in darkness.”
Actor-comedian Ricky Gervais viciously trolled Hollywood celebrities just hours ahead of Sunday’s Academy Awards, preemptively deflating their self-important acceptance speeches in a series of humorous tweets.
Gervais’s Oscars trolling was in response to a hypothetical question posed to him on Twitter asking what jokes he would make if he were hosting the Oscars tonight.
Eighty-six of Virginia’s 95 counties are now Second Amendment Sanctuaries and various law enforcement figures in the state have made clear their intention to defend gun rights, should the need arise.
For example, Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins made clear he is ready to “deputize thousands” to defend gun rights.
Welsh transgender player Kelly Morgan is ripping through the women’s rugby league and is so over-powering on the field that even the team’s coach has admitted that Morgan is hurting his own players in practice.RELATED: Still a few flies in the ointment
“She’s going to be a good, good player for the next few years,” said coach Brian Minty, “as long as we can stop her injuring players in training.”
"A quick visit to the CBC website gives me a lead story about “How the parties deal with fizzles and flops on the campaign trail” followed by '5 things Jagmeet Singh wants you to know about his turban,' neither of which I can guarantee you is anyone’s ballot question sat around the supper table."Speaking of the big, bloated Mothership...
Journalists aren’t supposed to get gifts, they aren’t supposed to skip lines, and in terms of business, they shouldn’t be bailed out by the government.
Saudi Arabia has said that the team was rogue, misinterpreting an old edict to convince Saudi dissidents to come home and killing Khashoggi by accident.Uh, guys... just spitballin' here, but you might wanna put a little more effort into your alibis...
"Is it possible to put the body in a bag?" asked Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, a senior member of the team, 12 minutes before Khashoggi arrived on Oct. 2.The Arab Miiddle East has its own kind of truth...
Dr. Salah Muhammed Tubaigy, who served as forensic chief at the Saudi General Security Department, responded, "No. Too heavy, very tall too."
Taliban jihadis killed ten people in the attack, including two NATO service members from the United States and Romania.That's some "Religion of Peace."
The assault came days after the top U.S. peace negotiator, Zalmay Khalilzad, proclaimed that nearly a year of peace negotiations with the Taliban had yielded a deal “in principle.”
CORNWALL, Ont. - An eastern Ontario city is facing a human rights complaint over its policy prohibiting women and girls 10 and older from being topless in municipal pools.
The mayor says the woman who launched the gender discrimination complaint doesn't live in Cornwall or the surrounding region.
The complaint also targets an eastern Ontario water park and seven hotel companies.
