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A court is set to begin hearing an application today to have a Nova Scotia man who was alleged to be the ringleader in the brutal beating of a fellow inmate declared a dangerous offender. A Nova Scotia judge has noted previously that Brian James Marriott has a long record …
Read More »Raising competition age for figure skaters not enough to combat abusive coaches, former skaters say
By the time she was a teenager, Canadian figure skating champion Sandra Bezic was flying around the world to compete. Pushed by her parents to be at the top of the sport, she made it to the Olympics in 1972, when she was just 15 years old. At 17, Bezic retired …
Read More »Olympic figure skating minimum age raised to 17 following Kamila Valieva controversy in Beijing
No 15-year-old figure skaters will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Olympics following the controversy surrounding Russian national champion Kamila Valieva at this year’s Beijing Games. A new age limit for figure skaters at senior international events was passed Tuesday by the International Skating Union in a 110-16 vote …
Read More »I unlearned a lifetime of Russian propaganda to figure out what information to believe
This First Person column is written by Tatiana Lebedeva who moved from Russia to Canada in 2014. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. It was late on Feb. 23 when I read the first reports of bombing in Ukraine. A friend texted that her …
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