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Wheelchair curling drama: 2 rocks stolen from Paralympic venue ahead of competition | CBC Curling drama has arrived at the Paralympics even before the first competition rock has been thrown. Two curling stones have been stolen from the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium.

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Two curling 🥌 stones have been stolen from the Cortina curling venue ahead of Paralympic competition.

Authorities are investigating. Competition will not be affected. Here’s what we know at this point: www.cbc.ca/sports/paral...

Family seeking $1.3M owed by Alberta separatist leader Dennis Modry after court order | CBC News Relatives of a prominent Alberta separatist who met with U.S. officials are upset that he has failed to pay back more than $1.3 million that he owes from a court order issued almost a year ago. A B.C....

A BC court found an Alberta separatist movement leader misappropriated $1.3 million of his elderly aunt and uncle’s money. Their niece says Dennis Modry hasn’t paid it back.

Giving up a steal of 5 rules somewhat less

Team PEI rolling with just three dudes kind of rules

Thought I’d take some time off from curling but we have a baby who likes to wake up at 6 am and you really can’t beat the brier for that

Advocates call for public inquiry into alleged corruption within Toronto police Project South police corruption probe led to arrests of seven Toronto officers and a retired constable

"Investigators said members of organized crime were buying data and addresses from Toronto Police officers, which were then used to co-ordinate shootings and other crimes – including an attempted hit on a corrections officer at his home."

From Molly Hayes:
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Feel free to borrow!

Among other things the guy just liked antagonizing people for basically no reason, he would have loved microblogging apps

Urbain Grandier - Wikipedia

Basically you reallllllllly have to suck in a lot of different ways en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbain_...

One chapter in and based on the cover you’d think this is a book about the occult when in reality it’s a book about how big of an asshole you have to be to be burned at the stake as a priest

Woman guilty of killing eight-year-old gets 8-year manslaughter sentence Woman guilty of manslaughter in death of 8-year-old girl gets eight-year sentence

From @liamnewbigging.bsky.social: the woman who killed 8-year-old Indigenous girl Nina Napope Dumais has been sentenced to 8 years.

Judge said the Edmonton Police Service’s decision to criticize the Crown’s handling of the case was a mitigating factor meriting time off the sentence.

Yeah here’s the pyre, very strange, just tucked behind a wall in an absolutely ruined temple. One of the most famous guys in human history, and they just let this sink and turn into cow pasture

It was 19 c today and people were wearing puffy jackets. I can’t imagine being here in July

I did but thought that’s where they killed him, apparently that happened at what’s now a cat sanctuary?

Watching HBO’s Rome in Rome … no one’s doing it on my level

Sunset on the Roman forum 🥲

The Colosseum tonight

When I was in London I remember a story about work crews hitting a plague pit in green park 😷

I would say stuff like that so often if I was a Roman forum tour guide

Not a Rome hater (though I get Hannibal Barca’s point)

How Rome haters describe Rome

The brier here would go so hard

It seems there’s now handwringing though!

Had I written this in the last 24 hours, I might have tweaked the lede

The federalism angle is fascinating imo

For the whatever time it is over in Canada/“why didn’t we win more medals” crowd!

Like “alright Connor you lost but please come accept the ‘you’re still really good at hockey’ prize, which you definitely want!”

It feels like they’re doing this to mean at this point

For the Canadian morning crowd: No, Marc Kennedy is probably never going to look into how famous he got at these Olympics

After Milan-Cortina, Canada's Olympic cupboard needs restocking. Is Norway's model the way forward? What does the tiny nation do so well, and should other countries copy them?

One last Olympic story! Looking at the “why is Norway so good at the Olympics & can Canada do what they do” question.

In sum: they put babies on x-country skis (36 potential medals), their approach to youth sports isn’t competition/profit driven, & also federalism. nationalpost.com/sports/olymp...