Nick Nurse was let go by the Toronto Raptors on Friday after spending 10 years with the organization, including the last five as their head coach. The news was announced just before Raptors vice chairman and team president Masai Ujiri was to hold his end-of-season media availability. “The decision to make a change like this is never arrived at easily or taken lightly, especially when it comes to a person who has been an integral part of this franchise’s most historic accomplishments, and who has been a steady leader through some of our team’s most challenging times,” Ujiri said in a statement. This Star graphic tells the story of his accomplishments, by the numbers. With files from Doug SmithRead more about:SHARE:

OTTAWA—Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are the reason the interim ethics commissioner quit, Liberal House Leader Mark Holland said Thursday as the government remained on the defensive over its ethical track record. Still, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended the choice, noting she joined the office under the previous Conservative government, was second-in-command and there are procedures in place to guard from conflicts. Ethics office can’t make decisionsRichards’ office noted that without a commissioner in place, there are decisions in the office that simply cannot be taken, though they did not elaborate. One piece of guidance they gave recently was to Trudeau regarding a trip his family was taking to Jamaica over the Christmas holiday. So far, he has kept saying he was with family friends, and had ensured ahead of time that would be in keeping with ethics rules.

CBC's government-funded label vanished Friday, along with the state-affiliated tags on media accounts including Sputnik and RT in Russia and Xinhua in China. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system -- many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. "My Twitter account says I've subscribed to Twitter Blue. On Thursday, Warwick lost her blue check (which is actually a white check mark in a blue background). THIS account is the only authentic Twitter account representing and run by the New York City Government."

CBC “paused” its use of Twitter after being labelled “government-funded media” there. CBC huffed that it’s “arm’s length” from the government that funds it, has journalistic independence etc. My argument isn’t that CBC faces no pressure, but that it’s no worse and possibly less, than the pressures on private media outlets. What’s surprising about CBC, given the difference in funding sources, is how similar CBC is on basic coverage to the commercial networks. To test this, I flipped CBC on randomly Wednesday and found an interview by CBC’s David Cochrane with retired general Andrew Leslie.

It’s here, in February, that six Indigenous designers from Canada were invited to show their collections in a dedicated airy, industrial space. The seed was planted in discussions with the Canadian embassy in Italy, then Paul invited White Milano organizers to come to Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto in June 2022. “To have my work and our work collectively as this cohort of Indigenous designers be platformed in this way, it’s incredible. “If IFA had existed when I finished fashion school, I think things would have been really different. “Like many other designers, I fell in love with fashion watching Jeanne Beker on Fashion Television,” she says.

$13B for an EV battery plant — and that's just from the fedsDuration: 04:07Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturer's Association, talks about what the massive financial infusion into a planned EV battery plant in Ontario might mean for the auto industry.

Blizzard like conditions continue for the Prairies, details HERE:Duration: 01:10A second low pressure is moving into the Prairies, this time it has it's eyes set on Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. Details with Meteorologist Melinda Singh.

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Speaking Wednesday at the East Coast Gaming Congress in Atlantic City, industry executives and legislators from gambling states offered various explanations for why internet gambling has yet to expand beyond a handful of eastern states. Internet gambling is legal in New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia; Nevada offers online poker but not casino games. Internet gambling brought in $1.6 billion in New Jersey in 2022, up more than 21% from a year earlier. That should give internet gambling another look in many places, they said. Siobhan Lane, CEO of Gaming for Light & Wonder, said she is optimistic about the likely expansion of internet gambling.

Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system — many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday to remove the blue checks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee to keep them. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system — many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. AdvertisementHigh-profile users who lost their blue checks Thursday included Beyoncé, Pope Francis, Oprah Winfrey and former President Donald Trump. “My Twitter account says I’ve subscribed to Twitter Blue.

But happy times have been dimmed by a staggering spike in Islamophobic incidents across the country that have ruined the month for many. Or the increasing cases of vandalism at Muslim community spaces. The National Council of Canadian Muslims, which helps community members respond to such incidents, has received over 40 reports from community members across Canada since Ramadan started — a record number. All this is giving the Muslim community pause during a time when neighbours and congregants are supposed to achieve more serenity in their faith. This isn’t just a Muslim community problem.

CBC News published this video item, entitled “Trying to roll the world’s largest joint #shorts” – below is their description. Dale Rook and a team of around 30 people tried to roll the world’s largest joint at an undisclosed location in Surrey, B.C., ahead of 420. Rook, the main organizer, said the joint ended up being 28.5 kilograms and close to nine metres long. The original goal was 65 pounds, or about 29.4 kilograms. Read more: www.cbc.ca/news CBC News YouTube ChannelGot a comment?

The chaos at Canada Soccer continues. Earl Cochrane, the organization’s general secretary, agreed Thursday to depart the organization, according to sources familiar with the decision. Canada Soccer has been a governance mess over the last year, even in a time of unprecedented competitive success. That game had been a replacement for a game against Iran, which had been cancelled due to political pressure, at great expense to Canada Soccer. The fight is not over, and the battle for the next president of Canada Soccer could be a turning point in Canadian soccer.

Kenya's horticultural exports are projected to increase about 10% to 166.76 billion shillings (about 1.23 billion USD) in 2023, compared to 1.1 billion dollars in 2022, an industry umbrella body said recently. "Given the current good rains being experienced in most parts of the country and the increase in demand from the overseas market, we expect to grow the 2023 exports," Okisegere Ojepat, chief executive officer of Fresh Produce Consortium of Kenya, a trade association committed to driving the growth of fresh produce companies in Kenya, told journalists in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, during a horticulture workshop. The bulk of the exports is transported via air freight, with the rest using road and rail transport to the Port of Mombasa before being loaded to shipping vessels en route to their various destinations, said Ojepat, citing the European Union, Britain, Japan, China, and the Middle East as some of the main export destinations. Read more at thestar.com.my

After the Stars went 3-of-6 on the power play in Game 2, Minnesota coach Dean Evason suggested that not all the penalties against the Wild were legit. Evason suggested that the Stars embellish many of the penalties. “We felt that they had some bigger people probably go down pretty easy in that hockey game,” Evason told Minnesota reporters Thursday. Our team, the Minnesota Wild, don’t dive. But yeah, there was some of that [Wednesday] night.”Twitter: @ChuckCarltonDMNFind more Stars coverage from The Dallas Morning News here.