A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military says.
Day: August 22, 2021
In the last election in 2019, the Communist Party got less than one per cent of the vote, according to Elections Canada. Although the party says Hamilton membership has increased four-fold, it remains one of a handful of alternative groups on the ballot box that run alongside the mainstream parties.
Canadian Savannah Sutherland won the bronze medal in the women’s 400-metre hurdles at U20 World Athletics Championships in Nairobi on Sunday. The Borden, Sask. native set her personal best time of 57.27 seconds.
A group of Canadians with loved ones in Afghanistan wants to make the plight of Afghan citizens an issue in the federal election campaign, and has the support of NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.
New Zealand recorded 21 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, as the current community outbreak of the delta variant continues to grow. Meanwhile, Australia’s prime minister says the country will stick to its lockdown strategy until at least 70 per cent of its population is fully vaccinated, but after that it will have to start living with the virus.