The Globe and Mail (BC Edition)
ONE FAVOURITE FALLS, ANOTHER RISES
France, seen as an unstoppable force in this year’s tournament, meets an immovable object in Spain, Cathal Kelly writes
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OUT AND ABOUT
In Vancouver, a volunteer-driven bike-ride program helps enrich the lives of isolated seniors
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At odds over status of strait, U.S. and Iran step up attacks
The U.S. military said it has launched another round of strikes against Iran “to degrade their ability to attack commercial ships freely transiting the Strait of Hormuz.” The strikes, which took place overnight and into early Monday in Iran, came...
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SHOOTING WAR
Photojournalist Goran Tomasevic returns to Russia’s front lines to document how its forces are using drones to shape the dynamics of war
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PM defends Saudi Arabia visit as he moves to deepen ties
Carney says ‘engagement is not endorsement,’ stresses need to diversify trade on trip to kingdom Prime Minister Mark Carney defended travelling to Saudi Arabia this week to cultivate deeper trade and investment ties – a pivot from his predecessor, who...
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FIRES RAGE IN FRASER CANYON
Strong winds threaten to fan two blazes burning out of control near B.C. community of Boston Bar, officials warn
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OUR CUP RUNNETH OVER
As the final whistle blows in Canada, the country begins to take stock of the tournament’s costs – and its legacy
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BRIDGING THE GAP FOR PRAIRIE PATIENTS
In rural Saskatchewan, volunteer drivers serve as a vital link, transporting residents to out-of-town medical appointments
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Carney expected to announce outcome of sub competition
German, South Korean manufacturers battled for procurement agreement worth tens of billions Prime Minister Mark Carney will announce Monday in Halifax the outcome of a highstakes competition between Germany and South Korea for a lucrative contract to...
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Why is Jesse Marsch the biggest star on the team?
If Canada’s run in this World Cup ends on Saturday, it might be remembered for a few things. The opening game in Toronto; the horror injury to Ismaël Koné; the winning goal by Stephen Eustáquio. However, the moment that has undoubtedly made the...
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Russia launches deadly assault on Kyiv, claiming retaliation for refinery strikes
Russia hammered Kyiv in an 11-hour drone and missile attack overnight into Thursday morning, killing at least 21 civilians in the city and injuring scores more in what Moscow said was retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities. Loud...
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ABOVE AND BEYOND
The Canadian Forces’ Snowbirds soar over a Canada Day ceremony in Ottawa’s LeBreton Flats neighbourhood. Wednesday marked the aerobatics team’s last Canada Day appearance until the 2030s as it transitions to new aircraft after this season.
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Canadians value national unity, but fear it’s under threat, poll finds
More than half of respondents see country’s fissures deepening More than three-quarters of Canadians believe it’s important for the country to remain united, and they’re particularly worried about how a frayed relationship with the United States,...
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As the Large Hadron Collider shuts down, B.C. scientists help ready its next iteration
Equipment will be used to probe deeper into the nature of reality The shiny black segments made of crystalline silicon look fragile and pristine. The researchers leaning over them are gloved and masked to prevent breathing on the delicate...
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CANADA MEETS THE MOMENT
With the world watching, this was the country’s chance to show its quality. In the 92nd minute against South Africa, it delivered As the Canadian soccer team rushed onto the field to celebrate its greatest-ever victory on Sunday, the scoreboard in...
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THE GREAT CANADIAN ECONOMIC QUIZ
Test your knowledge of the biggest business stories of the year – so far
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Thousands missing in Venezuela after powerful quakes hit north
Rescue teams race to find survivors, international offers of help pour in as death toll climbs Venezuelans searched for survivors beneath collapsed buildings Thursday and rescue teams raced to northern areas rocked by a pair of powerful earthquakes...
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Canada crumbles against Switzerland, and tumbles from atop its perch
Coming out for the second half of Wednesday’s game against Switzerland, Canada could claim to have played a faultless opening round of this World Cup. It wasn’t perfect, but it had been under control. Then it wasn’t. And then it really wasn’t. Canada...
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Hometown hero: Soccer star puts his Nova Scotia village on the map
Jacob Shaffelburg makes family and fans proud in tiny Port Williams In the sleepy village of Port Williams, N.S., there’s no obvious sign that this is home to a local soccer hero. There’s not a blast of red smoke or soccer scarf in sight. But inside...
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Officer, civilian killed in Montreal gunfight; police across country warned of copycats
Suspect also dead, with RCMP issuing nationwide alert over manifesto that allegedly calls for violence against law enforcement A gun battle outside a Montreal hotel on Monday left a police officer, a civilian and a suspect dead, and prompted a...
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Elephant in the room: U.S. travel policies cast shadow over Ivory Coast fans’ World Cup cheer
Toronto’s BMO Field was rumbling with the throaty chants of thousands of Germany fans when a rival noise pierced the din. A loud pocket of supporters in orange jerseys at the other end of the field answered back, waving flags, clapping in unison and...
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High-stakes game
How a burgeoning illegal wildlife trade is funding organized crime in Canada and beyond our borders Behind a series of locked doors in a secret location near Canada’s capital is one of its most unusual inventories. Some items arrived from abroad:...
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A NEW CLASS OF HEROES ARRIVES
Canada silences the naysayers, and puts itself firmly in the mix, with a dramatic first win on soccer’s biggest stage As he ran from the front of the net after scoring what was, for just a moment, the biggest goal in Canadian men’s soccer history,...
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REDEMPTION IN REACH
In its showdown with Qatar, Canada hopes for a soccer breakthrough after a long scoring drought
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MEETING IN THE MIDDLE
At G7 summit in France, leaders seek to turn focus back to Ukraine, while Carney appears to pitch Trump on Chinese EV plan
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Russian attack strikes Ukraine’s historic Dormition Cathedral
At least 11 killed in five-hour assault on Kyiv and Kharkiv, drawing international condemnation International outrage is mounting after one of the most important cathedrals in Orthodox Christianity was damaged early Monday during a Russian missile and...
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SOARING SNOWBIRDS
Canada’s famous aerobatic demonstration team is off and flying for one more season before it enters a multiyear hiatus
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OH, CANADA!
Canadian men tie Bosnia-Herzegovina to earn historic first tournament point on home turf
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THE WAIT IS OVER
Mexico’s triumphant opener against South Africa draws thousands of fans at viewing parties in Vancouver, Toronto
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VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN BELFAST
Anti-immigration protests grip city after alleged stabbing by asylum seeker puts open border between Ireland and U.K. back in focus
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READY TO SERVE
New Governor-General Louise Arbour vows to draw on country’s defining qualities as she’s sworn in at Ottawa ceremony
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CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
Women and LGBTQ+ drivers are finding community and thrills in the male-dominated world of demolition derby
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Federal AI plan commits billions to fund startups, boost adoption
Strategy to build up domestic sector draws criticism for lack of detail on safety and job protection Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the federal government’s long-delayed artificial intelligence strategy in Toronto on Thursday, a plan that lays...
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Ukrainian civilians caught up once more in the grim pattern of Putin’s war
Russia aims to shake public morale with devastating attacks on cities There is a grim pattern to Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine: Whenever the Russian army is bogged down, or is being driven backward, his forces strike at Ukrainian civilians with...
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IN FINE FORM
Canada’s Auger-Aliassime advances to the French Open quarter-finals, a feat he has now achieved at all four Grand Slam tournaments
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PARTY ON
The Canadian Screen Awards honour Mike Myers, Heated Rivalry and more. See the night’s best, worst and weirdest moments at TGAM.CA/ARTS
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REVENGE, SERVED COLD
Three months after Olympic heartbreak, Canada ousts the U.S. at hockey worlds to advance to semi-finals
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AGAINST THE CURRENT
A 50-year-old rowing event reveals the resilience of Venice in the face of change, while honouring the city’s beginnings
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At a McMaster lab, body donors offer the ultimate gift to medical education
When teaching anatomy, there’s no replacement for the real thing Patrice Henry and her mother, Dorothy Johnson, moved through life as a bonded pair. Over decades and across continents, they lived together, travelled together, and had sleepovers every...
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BLAZING A TRAIL
An intergenerational Toronto club strives to make running more inclusive for people of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds
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MAID PROVIDER UNDER SCRUTINY
Regulator cautions Ontario doctor, allows him to continue assisted-dying practice after probe flags concerns
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LESSONS LEARNED
How Canada’s military colleges, once facing potential shutdown, are marching toward the future
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VICTOIRE LEADS THE CHARGE
Canada gains its first Walter Cup as Montreal drubs Ottawa 4-0 in Game 4 to become PWHL champions. For the full story, visit GLOBESPORTS.COM
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Recipe for success: A batch of programs turns home cooks into business owners
Efforts help women – many of them newcomers – scale up legally Crissy Ventura passes an inch-thick puck of dough through a commercial sheeter, a stainless-steel box with a spinning cylinder attached to it that flattens the dough until it’s as thin as...
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MOSQUE SHOOTING JOLTS SAN DIEGO
Five dead, including two teenage suspects, after attack police are investigating as a hate crime
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SHELL SHOCK
PEI fisheries brace for years of hardship as a pair of diseases devastates the province’s oyster industry
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We’re losing trees far faster than nature can grow them or humans can plant them. With fire season upon us, Erin Anderssen asks: Is there a better way?
On top of a Quebec mountain, a scraggly tree rises out of stone. Neither the mountain nor the tree seems to be in its proper place. The rock rises like a camel hump out of flat farmland at the edge of the St. Lawrence River; the tree usually flourishes...
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WALKING A FINE LINE
Trump hails a ‘positive and productive’ meeting with Xi in Beijing, but leaders appear to talk past each other on Taiwan, Iran
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Liquid asset: How paid plasma donation has changed a charitable cause
The practice has come to Canada, bringing ethical and safety questions For more than five years, Michelle Strzalkowski handled sales at Brock Street Brewing Company in Whitby, on the eastern edge of the Greater Toronto Area. She would call up LCBO...
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LOOKING TO THE STARS
Cannes kicks off at a politically charged moment, with a jury president who isn’t afraid to face it head-on, Barry Hertz writes
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Canada’s energy ambitions crash into a B.C. strait’s perilous waters
Push for increased tanker traffic raises fears of catastrophic oil spills In May of 2012, the crew of a small commercial fishing boat was caught in the unpredictable wind and waves of Hecate Strait off B.C.’s North Coast. The Pacific Siren capsized so...
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CHARGING FORWARD
Ottawa advances to PWHL finals after defeating Boston in best-of-five series
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Ultraprocessed foods are ubiquitous – and increasingly being blamed for our collective ill health. So what does it take to cut them from our diets? Kelly Grant found out
My family of five tried to cut out ultraprocessed foods for a week. Here’s what we learned Let me tell you about a random Wednesday in March when I tried to feed my family of five a dinner free of ultraprocessed foods. My plan was to make a big batch...
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BRITONS HEAD TO THE POLLS
Reform UK, Green Party expected to score major victories in dozens of local elections across Britain
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THE SHOW GOES ON
At a fraught political moment, Kate Taylor wonders: Can the Venice Biennale maintain its world-fair model?
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A CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT
Announcement was welcomed even by critics of the monarchy she will represent Louise Arbour, a retired justice of the Supreme Court of Canada who also made her mark on international institutions such as the United Nations, will be Canada’s next...
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Alberta moves closer to separation vote as group submits 301,000 signatures
Leader hails ‘historic’ day, but initiative still faces hurdles, including First Nations legal challenge Alberta marched one step closer to holding its first referendum on provincial independence, as separatists announced they had collected more than...
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MONTREAL MIGHT
Habs overcome the Lightning in high-stakes Game 7 to advance to Round 2 and keep Canada in the playoffs
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NORTHERN EXPOSURE
As superpowers jockey for control in the Arctic, Gavin John travels with the Canadian Rangers to discover what it takes to secure one of the world’s harshest regions
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HOME TRUTHS
New research bears out what many young Canadians already know: The country’s housing crisis is fuelling a happiness crisis
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CEO behind failed federal prescription service dismissed
Michael Green removed from role as MPs investigate how $300-million was spent The head of an organization that oversaw a $300-million federal digital prescription service has been removed in the midst of a probe by a parliamentary committee into how...
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King stresses importance of NATO unity, ‘shared values’ in speech to U.S. Congress
King Charles III called for the United States to recommit itself to its historic alliance with Britain and other NATO countries – and not to become “more inward-looking” – as he sought to repair relations with U.S. President Donald Trump during a...
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A ROYAL WELCOME
The King arrives in Washington for his first visit as monarch on a mission to mend ties between the U.S. and Britain
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HIS TIME HAS COME
Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe shatters two-hour barrier at London Marathon, a historic feat repeated by Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha seconds later
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Emboldened by allies in the Knesset and in Washington, the once-fringe settler movement has designs to expand Israel’s borders
Emboldened by allies in the Knesset and in Washington, the once-fringe movement has designs to expand Israel’s borders Hadar Bar-Chai stood on a green hill in southwestern Israel, the grey ruins of Gaza visible behind her, and raised a megaphone to...
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BACK TO THE BIRDS
New Zealand’s ambitious effort to save some of its weirdest, most wonderful inhabitants from invasive predators is showing remarkable results
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A LIGHT TOUCH
Come springtime, winemakers in France’s Chablis region bring out the candles to fight frost with fire
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MEXICO ATTACK PLANNED, OFFICIALS SAY
Authorities suggest gunman may have timed shooting, which left one Canadian tourist dead, to coincide with Columbine anniversary
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A BATTLE FOR THE AGES
Taking to the streets and even risking jail time, these senior Canadians are spending their twilight years advocating for climate action
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HABS NAB IT
Canadiens’ Slafkovsky completes hat trick with OT goal to down Lightning in Game 1 of playoff series. For the full story, visit GLOBESPORTS.COM
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MADE IN CANADA
Throughout April, we are spotlighting artworks from the Vancouver Art Gallery, one of North America’s most innovative visual arts institutions. Home to a world-renowned collection of art by Emily Carr and celebrated for its leadership in Indigenous and...
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