Until recently, Sharon Gray was unaware of the devastation residential schools caused Indigenous people. Now, she’s speaking out about her experience.
Day: August 7, 2021
As the lights go out at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium on Saturday, it marks the end of a remarkable Olympic run for Canadian track and field. Over the course of the week records were broken, dreams were realized and barriers – once thought unattainable -were smashed.
Police have arrested a man they say stabbed 10 passengers on a commuter train in Tokyo, in what public broadcaster NHK reported to be a random burst of violence unrelated to the ongoing Olympic Games.
The official price tag for the Tokyo Olympics in $15.4 billion US, which a University of Oxford study says is the most expensive on record. But several Japanese government audits say the real outlay for the Tokyo Games is even more than the official figure, perhaps twice as much.
Laurence Vincent Lapointe and Katie Vincent take bronze in double’s sprint final, Durant scores 29 on the way to third gold medal, heartbreak for South Korea in men’s baseball.