Canada’s Brendan Bottcher dropped a 6-3 decision to Scotland’s Bruce Mouat in the men’s final of the Humpty’s Champions Cup.
Day: April 19, 2021
CBC Sports’ daily newsletter explores Patrick Marleau’s case for the Hall of Fame as he breaks Gordie Howe’s NHL games-played record. Plus, a major disruption in European soccer and a breakthrough in Montreal basketball.
In December 2018, OSCE Moscow Mechanism rapporteur’s independent report on the situation in Chechnya found ‘clear evidence of the successive purges against LGBTI persons’ in Chechnya as well as of numerous other grave Human Rights violations. The report documented that LGBTI persons in Chechnya had been subjected to systematic harassment, persecution, arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture, enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings.
The Liberal government has set aside hundreds of millions dollars to combat sexual misconduct in the military, bolster continental defence and reinforce Canada’s commitment to NATO.
Did former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin act reasonably when he applied force on George Floyd? And did those actions, including his knee pressed in or around the neck of the 46-year-old Black man, play a role in his death? These are the two main questions jurors will have to answer.