He buried two chances Wednesday, though, helping Canada beat Switzerland 6-3 in the quarterfinals. “It’s harder than I thought, for sure,” said Stankoven, a Kamloops Blazers forward who was named the Canadian Hockey League’s player of the year in June. “Goals didn’t come easy. I had chances, but not as many as I would have liked. Tonight I thought I could create a few more chances and the puck was going into the net....

Grades are expected to be down overall compared to last year, but should be higher than 2019. Summer exams were canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic and students were awarded grades decided by professors. This year’s race for university places is expected to be one of the most competitive yet, with almost 40% of students thought to use the clearing system to find a place on a course....

The Big Ten Conference has completed a monumental set of media rights deals, expected to be worth more than $1 billion annually, with Fox, CBS and NBC — and notably without ESPN. The Big Ten’s new deals will make it the richest conference in college sports, just weeks after the conference announced it would add the University of Southern California and UCLA from the Pacific-12. The new deals, which begin in 2023 and were announced Thursday morning, will give the conference an NFL-like schedule spread across three broadcast networks on college football Saturdays with designated windows for each — noon on Fox....

Impressionnant, Jumbo Visma fracasse le contre-la-montre de l’équipe : l’arrivée en vidéo Tour d’Espagne 20 août 2021 : Le jour où Valverde a pensé que c’était la fin IL Y A 3 HEURES Derrière lui, Richard Carapaz a profité d’une équipe INEOS Grenadiers très solide autour d’Ethan Hayter, Dylan van Baarle ou encore Ben Turner. L’Équatorien, ainsi que Tao Geoghegan Hart et Pavel Sivakov, ont 13 secondes de retard sur Roglic, soit une de moins que Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step-Alpha Vinyl)....

New census data showing a decline in French in Canada is “extremely troubling,” the prime minister said Friday, but added Ottawa still has a responsibility to protect linguistic minorities across the country — including Quebec. During a visit to Les Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Que., Trudeau reacted to data released this week showing that the percentage of Canadians who speak French primarily at home has declined in almost all provinces and regions. In Quebec, the percentage of people who primarily speak French at home fell to 77....

Today, wild poliovirus is endemic only in pockets of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The type detected in London and New York is a vaccine-derived strain, a rare mutation derived from the oral polio vaccine. Unlike the vaccine used in Western countries, which is based on an inactivated virus, the oral vaccine contains a weakened strain of the live virus. It is still used in poor countries for various reasons. First, it is cheaper and easier to manage....

Anlässlich des fünfjährigen Jubiläums im Oktober 2002 schrieb Alfred Driver, langjähriger Chef von Ö1 und Gründer des ORF RadioKulturhaus, über das breite und innovative Programm des ORF RadioKulturhaus: „Viele grenzüberschreitende Menschen könnten sonst nicht gespielt werden auf Ö1 findet so Eingang ins Programm und stößt beim Ö1-Publikum auf zunehmende Akzeptanz. Dieses Publikum verändert sich Schritt für Schritt und wird in unserem Fall gleichzeitig älter und jünger. Dem trägt das ORF RadioKulturhaus in idealer Weise Rechnung....

The presenter will take over the role in autumn 2023, with Paxman having one final season of asking the questions on the quiz show. Rajan, 39, will combine the role with other work presenting episodes of Radio 4’s Today program and his own TV interview series. He has become a ubiquitous presence at the BBC in recent years, having also hosted episodes of The One Show and acted as a stand-in presenter for both the Zoë Ball and Jeremy Vine shows on Radio 2....

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Biden administration is reportedly poised to send another $800 million to Ukraine as part of a security and military aid package that could be announced as early as Friday amid concerns about a possible attack on a nuclear facility in the country. President Joe Biden could approve the funds through the Presidential Withdrawal Authority, a presidential ability to redistribute defense articles from the Defense Department to foreign countries in times of crisis, which Biden has used in the past to help Ukraine, he said....

Xiao, 50, and his Tomorrow Holdings group were charged with illegally embezzling government deposits, betraying the use of entrusted property, and illegal use of funds and bribery, the Shanghai First Intermediate Court said. Xiao was also fined 6.5 million yuan for the crimes, the Shanghai court said, accusing him and Tomorrow of “serious violation of the financial management order” and “harming the state’s financial security.” From 2001 to 2021, Xiao and Tomorrow gave shares, real estate, cash and other assets to government officials totaling more than 680 million yuan to evade financial supervision and seek illegal interests, the court said....

Kmet was productive in Fields’ rookie season and the tight end was easily the No. 2 target behind wide receiver Darnell Mooney for the quarterback. Kmet was targeted 52 times by Fields and made 32 receptions for 330 yards in 2021. That accounted for roughly half of his production (60 receptions for 612 yards), which stands to reason as Fields played in 12 games with 10 starts. The pair got going right away Thursday with Kmet catching a screen pass for 12 yards on the first play from scrimmage during a 10-play, 52-yard drive that led to a 35-yard Cairo Santos field goal....

What was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in the North Okanagan turned into a medical emergency for a Calgary man. Lawrence Pickrem was staying at an AirBnB in SilverStar when he and two friends fell from a balcony after the railing gave way. The incident happened on Friday and Pickrem remains in Vernon Jubilee Hospital with serious injuries. Shortly after arriving at the cottage, Pickrem and some friends decided to check out the view from the balcony and have a barbecue....

Now “it is up to the government here in Beijing to convince the rest of the world that it will act peacefully in the future,” the ambassador said. “I think there’s a lot of concern around the world that China has now become a destabilizing factor in the Taiwan Strait, and that’s not in anyone’s interest.” Burns, a career diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to NATO, arrived in Beijing in March to take on what is arguably the most important U....

AFP Après les orages, des pluies torrentielles sont tombées sur Paris, Montpellier et Marseille. CLIMAT – La douche froide. L’intensité des orages accompagnés d’inondations a surpris les Parisiens ce mardi 16 août. Encore moins les scientifiques qui alertent depuis des années sur l’intensification des précipitations extrêmes en Europe occidentale. Des images de routes submergées ont montré à quel point les villes françaises sont mal préparées aux “inondations pluviales” causées par le changement climatique....

Die Inflation in der Eurozone schießt von Rekordhöhen in die Höhe, angeheizt durch steigende Energiepreise im Gefolge des Krieges in der Ukraine. Damit dürfte eine weitere kräftige Zinserhöhung der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) immer wahrscheinlicher werden. Im Juli stiegen die Verbraucherpreise im Jahresvergleich um 8,9 Prozent, teilte die Statistikbehörde Eurostat am Donnerstag mit und bestätigte damit eine erste Schätzung. Das ist die höchste Inflation seit Einführung des Euro. Im Juni lag die Inflation bei 8,6 %....

Die Liste der Klagen und Ermittlungen gegen Donald Trump ist lang. Celina Euchner, New York (USA) Es war ein historisch einmaliges Ereignis, als die US-Bundespolizei FBI die Residenz des ehemaligen US-Präsidenten Donald Trump (76) in Florida durchsuchte. Ein Prozess ist jetzt im Gange, aber keineswegs der einzige. Die FBI-Razzia Bei der Razzia fand das FBI einige Dinge, für die der ehemalige Präsident strafrechtlich verfolgt werden könnte. Darunter „Streng geheime“ Dokumente....

„Ab 17.05 Uhr sind starke Gewitter und Hagel möglich. Bitte sichern Sie Ihre Zelte und steigen Sie gegebenenfalls in Ihre Autos“, schrieben die Organisatoren auf Facebook. Eigentlich startete das Festival am Donnerstag bei tropischen Temperaturen. Die Veranstaltung in St. Pölten hat am heutigen Donnerstag nach zweijähriger Pause wegen des Coronavirus wieder geöffnet. Die Gäste dürften vom Wetterumschwung überrascht worden sein. Das Festival wurde vorübergehend ausgesetzt. Promoter Harry Jenner betrat während des Auftritts von Rapper Kummer die Bühne und verkündete die Entscheidung....

Von: Florian Naumann Aufteilung Die Gasladung kommt. Robert Habeck erläuterte am Montag die Ampelpläne – schnell wurden Warnungen vor schlimmen Folgen laut. Was ist es: Berlin – Am Montagnachmittag war Robert Habeck deutlich anzumerken, dass er kein angenehmes Date abschloss. Mit etwas angestrengter Miene erläuterte Green die Ursachen und Folgen der neuen Erdgaserhöhung. Am bemerkenswertesten ist sicherlich, dass Privatkunden und Unternehmen mehr für Erdgas bezahlen müssen. Wenige Stunden zuvor hatte ein Konsortium von Erdgasversorgern die Höhe der Abgabe bekannt gegeben....

When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits Canada next week to address the energy crisis plaguing his country, the prospect of a rapid expansion of Canadian liquefied natural gas exports will not be up for discussion, according to Canadian and German officials. . Instead, Mr. Scholz and his entourage are expected to focus on long-term energy goals. And they will look to bolster Canadian efforts to develop renewable energy markets, with a particular focus on hydrogen fuel....

The air base near Novofedorivka on the west coast of the peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, suffered multiple explosions on Aug. 9. read more The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Ukraine was now consistently achieving “kinetic effects” deep behind Russia’s lines which was having a material impact on Russia’s logistics support and “a significant psychological effect on the Russian leadership”. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters....