Euro Canals News

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is giving itself more time to fulfil a key peacekeeping promise to the UN first made five years ago. The commitment involves the provision of a 200-soldier quick reaction force to the UN.

Thunder Bay police say a Saturday morning traffic stop has ld to the arrest of two suspects and the seizure of a loaded, modified AR-15 assault rifle as well as illicit drugs totalling an estimated $14,000.

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 for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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.

At least four Ontarians have died due to multiple fatal crashes in the province this weekend.

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.

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.

TORONTO — As Toronto Blue Jays management attempts to improve its roster before Tuesday’s trade deadline, a pair of acquisitions in the past 12 months, Jose Berrios and Matt Chapman continue to enjoy their most productive stints with their new team.

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 its intergenerational harms.