The American League hits leader was among four Toronto Blue Jays who were named to Major League Baseball’s midseason exhibition on Sunday. Slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr., ace Kevin Gausman and second baseman Whit Merrifield will join Bichette at the all-star game. Bichette was an all-star in 2021 and he said that now he’s older he’ll appreciate the honour more. Guerrero announced on Friday that he would be participating in the home run derby with Blue Jays manager John Schneider throwing to him in that exhibition. He said that his fresh start with the Blue Jays led to his third all-star appearance.

Highland dancers from around the world set to compete in HalifaxDancers rehearse for the opening ceremony of the 2023 ScotDance Canada Championship Series in Halifax on Sunday. (Jeorge Sadi/CBC - image credit)Nearly a thousand dancers from all over the world are in Halifax this week for the 2023 ScotDance Canada Championship Series. The Canadian Highland Dance Championships are part of the event and will be held on Tuesday. Maelle Naime, who is from Lower Sackville, N.S., is competing in the 2023 ScotDance Canada Championship Series in Halifax this week. It's the first time Halifax has hosted the ScotDance Canada Championship since 1991.

Max Domi, the Stars center who was acquired via trade prior to Dallas’ 2023 playoff run, has agreed to a one-year deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Domi, 28, will wear the uniform his legendary enforcer father, Tie Domi, wore for 12 NHL seasons. He joined forward Evgenii Dadonov as Dallas’ major trade deadline acquisitions, and both of them had a positive impact on the Stars’ run to the Western Conference finals. While Domi had only seven points in 20 regular season games after the deadline, he nearly doubled that point total in 19 playoff games, finishing with 3 goals and 10 assists. Advertisement“[The playoff run] was something that I’ll never forget and I’m very grateful to be a part of,” Domi said after the Stars’ postseason exit.

“Wherever our flag flies, it’s recognized as a symbol of democracy, of freedom, and of hope,” Trudeau said in a special statement released for Canada Day. According to a report by Cbc.ca, on Canada Day, CBC News has been hearing reflections from Canadians about what Canada means to them. To Commanda, ‘the land is Canada, and Canada is the land — and this is what Canada means to me.’For Hanna Trofimova, Canada has proven to be a place of safety. On this Canada Day, the chance to be with her children, away from conflict, is something to celebrate. But as he has learned more about the country’s history and its relationship with Indigenous people, his feelings about Canada Day have shifted.

Canada Day is Anne-Marie DeSouza’s favourite holiday — next to Christmas — which explained her festive getup, complete with Canadian flag-themed sunglasses, face paint, and red-and-white balloons in her hair. How, and whether, to celebrate Canada Day has become a recurrent debate as the country reckons with its colonial legacy and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous Peoples. But in the downtown core itself, hundreds of people packed a 12-block route for the city’s first Canada Day parade since 2019. In Toronto — where celebrations took place in muggy temperatures pushing 30 C — Jacqui L. said she came to Canada from Grenada in 1990. The pair had just been talking about Toronto singer Jully Black’s performance of ‘O Canada’ at the NBA All-Star game earlier this year.

Toronto police have arrested a suspect wanted in connection with the deadly stabbing of a Nigerian international student in June. On June 25, 28-year-old Ifeanyichukwu Oseke was stabbed in a Scarborough parking lot after an altercation with another man. A Canada-wide warrant was issued on July 1 for Tamar Cupid, on the charge of second-degree murder, police said. Police arrested and charged Cupid, 25, hours into the warrant. He is scheduled to appear before the Toronto Regional Bail Centre on Sunday.

The affectionate sobriquet is just about the only piece of puffery applied to Spanish tennis phenom Carlos Alcaraz. And Carlitos might be the only obstacle capable of stopping Novak Djokovic in his history-making tracks at Wimbledon. He recently fired a warning to challengers by posting a clip of himself on social media, nibbling on the grass at Wimbledon. The last time, at Roland Garros, Djokovic handed Alcaraz his hat with a 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 semifinals ouster, though Alcaraz had been struck with full-body cramps. And there’s the swashbuckling Aussie Nick Kyrgios, who made his maiden major final at Wimbledon a year ago, losing to Djokovic.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has just blistered the ball into right field, George Springer is sprinting home from third base, Bo Bichette is hotfooting it from second. “Yeah, I saw him,” said Bichette, who had a solo blast in the third inning, his team-leading 15th home run. I kind of assumed I’d be stopped but I didn’t really see anything.”What are you saying exactly, Bo? Didn’t really see anything to tell me either way.”Bichette is simply not the sort of person who would throw anybody under the bus. I don’t think Bo picked him up quite in time.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Katie Ledecky easily won the 1,500-meter freestyle at the U.S. national championships on Saturday in Indianapolis, giving her at least three more chances to add to her world championship gold medal collection. The 26-year-old Ledecky posted the sixth-fastest time in history, finishing in 15 minutes, 29.64 seconds — more than 28 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Katie Grimes. Ledecky qualified for the Americans in all four events she competed in this week, but announced she would not compete in the 200 free later this month in Fukuoka, Japan. He failed to qualify for the “A” final in his fourth and final event of the week, the men’s 50 free. Kate Douglass set a new mark in the women’s 200 individual medley with a time of 2:07.09, beating out Alex Walsh (2:07.89).

If you break the laws (Socrates has been found guilty), you must accept the state’s remedy (in this case, execution). On May 20, 2013, he flew to Hong Kong, where he leaked thousands of classified NSA documents to four journalists. At the same time, the U.S. government unsealed indictments charging him with conspiracy (with Manning) and violations of the Espionage Act. She had helped WikiLeaks release 750,000 classified documents, and unclassified but highly sensitive documents. Sentenced to 35 years in prison, Manning was incarcerated from 2010-2017, when her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama.

(Paul Daly/CBC)Newfoundland and Labrador's Registered Nurses' Union and the provincial government have reached a tentative agreement after a lengthy negotiation period. In a press release Saturday afternoon, the union said the tentative agreement includes a pay increase that will help to recruit and retain nurses. Health Minister Tom Osborne said the tentative deal represents a significant step toward retention of nurses in the province's health care system. "This tentative collective agreement will help by providing a competitive compensation package," Osborne said. The union represents over 5,800 registered nurses and nurse practitioners in the province.

Reserve funds should be accumulated following the important information in the reserve study and cannot be used for anything other than replacing, repairing, or refurbishing the specified deteriorating capital components. Civil Code Section 55510(b) bars boards from spending reserve fund money except for repairing, replacing, restoring, or maintaining the components regarding which the money was saved. Withdrawing money from the reserve fund account for any other purpose is considered “borrowing” from the reserve fund. One common requirement is that the HOA have a certain amount of money in its reserve account, and another is that the HOA not have too many delinquencies. A healthy reserve fund cannot only make it more likely that the HOA would qualify for a loan but can itself be a short-term borrowing source.

The U.S. Justice Department is launching a program to respond to the missing and murdered Indigenous persons crisis — an issue that’s been getting attention south of the border, following years of headlines in Canada. Five assistant U.S. attorneys and five co-ordinators will be given the mandate to support United States attorneys’ offices in addressing the issue. In November 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on Improving Public Safety and Criminal Justice for Native Americans and Addressing the Crisis of Missing or Murdered Indigenous People. This new Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Outreach Program is an attempt to align with Monaco’s directive to dedicate new personnel to the issue. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement that “This new program mobilizes the Justice Department’s resources to combat the crisis of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons, which has shattered the lives of victims, their families, and entire Tribal communities.”SHARE:

This is the unique beauty of entering a polling station in a functioning democracy. That election day when I was 19, I left the polling station and felt a strange absence. I was following politics from age 11 — not because my parents were activists or otherwise engaged in politics; I was just weird that way. So I don’t think other teenagers are — or should be — likely to feel the way I did about the political process. So what does it say about our cultural values that we have no ritual around voting, no rite-of-passage tradition, no social fostering and celebration of that first-vote moment?

Workers at the Encinitas Starbucks at 905 Orpheus Ave. went on strike Friday along with other Starbucks locations across the nation. The Encinitas Starbucks is closed Friday as its union workers join with more than 150 other stores as part of a joint strike over contract negotiations and complaints over Pride month displays. Now in its seventh day, Starbucks union workers across the nation have gone on strike over claims about the company’s policy on Pride decorations, which they say limited LGBT signage in stores. Encinitas Starbucks workers voted in May to unionize its location at 905 Orpheus Ave., becoming the first location in San Diego County with a union. Starbucks Workers United alleged in mid-June that workers were being asked to remove Pride decorations and other actions perceived as anti-LGBT.