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Government withholding funding ‘related to suspended Canada Soccer officials’
SAINT-ETIENNE — Canadian sports minister Carla Qualtrough said Sunday that the government is withholding some of Canada Soccer’s funding following a spying scandal involving the women’s soccer team at the Paris Games. Her statement came a day after FIFA docked six points from the squad, banned head coach Bev Priestman and two assistant coaches for …
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Canada owes First Nations for breach of Robinson Treaties, court rules
Treaties signed more than 170 years ago between Canada’s British colonial settlers and several Indigenous groups have not been honored by successive Canadian governments, which for generations deprived the First Nations of fair compensation for resource revenue, the country’s top court has ruled. The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday ordered the government to enter …