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- New Straits Times
McKeown beats Smith again for world backstroke double
SINGAPORE: Australia's Kaylee McKeown underlined her backstroke dominance with a world championships double after winning the 200m in Singapore on Saturday. McKeown again got the better of Regan Smith, touching the wall in a championships-record 2min 03.33sec to beat her American arch-rival into second place in 2:04.29. Another American, Claire Curzan, was third in 2:06.04. McKeown picked up the 100m backstroke gold earlier this week in Singapore – also beating Smith into second – for her sixth career world title. She also won the 100-200 backstroke double at the Tokyo and Paris Olympics. McKeown made a fast start but Smith held on and overtook her rival heading into the final lap. McKeown switched up the gears to regain the lead and power towards the finish, although she fell just short of her own world record. The Australian's time was the third-fastest swim ever. amk/pst
Calgary Herald
21 minutes ago
- Calgary Herald
An American embraces the spirit of Canada
Article content 'The Hall of Gods,' exclaimed Mary Schaffer in 1929 as she boated across Alberta's Maligne Lake, with its turquoise waters and sculpted mountain peaks. The first European to behold his land of wonder, she was told by First Nations people there that the very small land mass at the lake's centre was to them 'Spirit Island'. Article content My wife and I arrived in Alberta on July 2 with two questions: Was Jasper National Park as beautiful as I remembered from a 1970s visit? And second, how has the Canadian spirit responded to threats of annexation from the United States? Article content Article content Article content We had heard at least one American tour company was skipping Jasper—citing logistical concerns, but perhaps also with doubts that the area had recovered from last year's wildfires. The park indeed lost some forest. Guides estimated that three to five per cent of parkland was affected. As Canadians undoubtedly know, we learned that the town of Jasper, however, suffered much more—nearly 30 per cent of its property was destroyed. Article content Article content Yet, the spirit of Alberta is one of resilience. Some residents are still in temporary shelters, but are awaiting permanent housing; some businesses haven't reopened; others feared a loss of tourists. But visitors from all over the world are hearing that Jasper remains a magical place, not a site to be avoided. Article content On June 29, three days before we embarked for Calgary, the American president once again told Time magazine that he intended to annex Canada as the 51st state. An American friend of ours wondered whether Canadians only tolerate American tourists for their money. Article content Article content We found the opposite. People in Alberta were eager to share one of the most beautiful places on Earth —wanting us to share in the spirit of adventure that the Canadian Rockies offer. Though we mostly avoided politics, I did say 'I'm sorry' to two Canadians, neither voiced anger at the sovereignty-attacking words by our president. Article content Canadians appear to like understatement. One example came from a historical marker by the Bow River. A sign recounted how a hiker fell into a ditch. He reportedly told his mates, 'It would be good to deal with this situation with haste.' Article content That gentle understatement felt quintessentially Canadian — echoing Britain's enduring 'stiff upper lip' influence. Another example: a wildlife guide telling us of a tourist trampled by an elk, commenting: 'We find a range of intelligences here.' Article content What amazed me most in terms of Canadian attitude was what we didn't see: there were no protest signs, no anti-American buttons or stickers. At least in the parts of Alberta we visited, political expression was invisible. Had the situation been reversed, fierce anti-Canadian protest messaging would be very prominent, and I would fear for the safety of Canadians visiting the States.
Leader Live
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- Leader Live
Eight people seeking food among at least 18 killed by Israeli fire in Gaza
Near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution site, Yahia Youssef, who had come to seek aid on Saturday morning, described a panicked scene now grimly familiar. After helping carry out three people wounded by gunshots, he said he looked around and saw many others lying on the ground bleeding. 'It's the same daily episode,' Mr Youssef said. In response to questions about several witness accounts of violence at the northernmost of the Israeli-backed American contractor's four sites, the GHF media office said 'nothing (happened) at or near our sites'. The episode came a day after US officials visited one site and the US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called GHF's distribution 'an incredible feat'. International outrage has mounted as the group's efforts to deliver aid to hunger-stricken Gaza have been marred by violence and controversy. 'We weren't close to them (the troops) and there was no threat,' Abed Salah, a man in his 30s who was among the crowds close to the GHF site near Netzarim corridor, said. 'I escaped death miraculously.' The danger facing aid seekers in Gaza has compounded what international hunger experts this week called a 'worst-case scenario of famine' in the besieged enclave. Israel's near 22-month military offensive against Hamas has shattered security in the territory of some 2.0 million Palestinians and made it nearly impossible to deliver food safely to starving people. From May 27 to July 31, 859 people were killed in the vicinity of GHF sites, according to a United Nations report published on Thursday. Hundreds more have been killed along the routes of food convoys. Israel and GHF have said they have only fired warning shots and that the toll has been exaggerated. Health officials reported that Israeli airstrikes and gunfire killed at least 18 Palestinians on Saturday, including three whose bodies were transported from the vicinity of a distribution site to a central Gaza hospital along with 36 others who were wounded. Officials said 10 of Saturday's casualties were killed by strikes in central and southern Gaza. Nasser Hospital said it received the bodies of five people killed in two separate strikes on tents sheltering displaced people. The dead include two brothers and a relative, who were killed when a strike hit their tent close to a main thoroughfare in Khan Younis. Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, families of Israeli hostages protested and urged Israel's government to push harder for the release of their loved ones, including those shown in footage released by militant groups earlier this week. US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff joined them a day after visiting Gaza and a week after walking away from ceasefire talks in Qatar, blaming Hamas's intransigence and pledging to find other ways to free hostages and make Gaza safe. Of the 251 hostages who were abducted when Hamas led an attack on southern Israel on October 7 2023, about 20 are believed to be alive in Gaza. Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the second-largest militant group in Gaza, released separate videos of individual hostages this week, triggering outrage among hostage families and Israeli society. The war in Gaza began when Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7 2023, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed more than 60,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry, which does not distinguish between militants and civilians and operates under the Hamas government. The UN and other international organisations see it as the most reliable source of data on casualties.
