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Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet discusses the variety of ways his squad needs to improve on defense. He also touches on Chris Boucher's breakout game and what he's seen from the 27-year-old.
Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet discusses the variety of ways his squad needs to improve on defense. He also touches on Chris Boucher's breakout game and what he's seen from the 27-year-old.
The growth in COVID-19 patients in hospital is slowing in every region of England, suggesting the country is approaching the peak of the second wave of coronavirus.
ZURICH — The hockey world championships were pulled from Belarus on Monday following pressure from opposition groups and a threatened boycott by sponsors. The International Ice Hockey Federation cited safety concerns and said it will seek a new country to co-host the tournament with Latvia or host it on its own. The tournament is scheduled to start May 21. Criticism of Belarus’ role as co-host grew after authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko's disputed re-election last year was followed by mass arrests at largely peaceful demonstrations. The IIHF said its council “determined that it is currently impossible to ensure the welfare of teams, spectators and officials” in Belarus. IIHF president Rene Fasel had tried to keep the men's tournament in Belarus, claiming it could build bridges between the opposition and Lukashenko. Opposition groups criticized Fasel after he and Lukashenko embraced when they met for talks last week. Mass protests swept Belarus after official results from the presidential election in August gave Lukashenko a landslide victory over his widely popular opponent, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. She and her supporters refused to recognize the result, saying the vote was fraudulent. Authorities cracked down hard on the largely peaceful demonstrations which followed. Tsikhanouskaya welcomed the IIHF decision, saying the tournament would have heralded a renewed crackdown on the opposition. “It is a victory because there will not be an extra wave of repression for the sake of ‘cleansing’ the city before the world championship,” Tsikhanouskaya said in a statement. “It is a victory because Lukashenko did not manage to make it look as if he has everything under control.” Three sponsors of the tournament, Skoda, Nivea and Liqui Moly, said they would cancel their involvement if games were played in Belarus. The IIHF said it will now consider where to hold the event, and said Latvia could remain as co-host or the tournament could move to a single venue. Denmark, the host in 2018, and Slovakia, the host in 2019, have both offered to step in. Belarus previously hosted the tournament in 2014 amid criticism from some opposition figures and European politicians. The women's world championships are scheduled to be played in Canada in April. Both the men's and women's championships were cancelled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. ___ More AP sports: https://apnews.com/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports The Associated Press
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The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 2:15 p.m. Nova Scotia is reporting no new cases of COVID-19 today. Health officials say the number of active cases has also fallen to 25 from 29 yesterday. Chief medical officer of health Dr. Robert Strang notes that it's the second time this month the province has reported no new cases but it's not a sign that the virus is no longer in the province. Strang is urging the public to continue to follow public health measures. --- 2:05 p.m. New Brunswick is reporting 26 new cases of COVID-19 today. There are now 304 active reported cases in the province, including one person in hospital with the disease. As of today, 10,436 doses of vaccine have been administered in New Brunswick and 7,339 people have received two doses. The province has reported 973 infections since the start of the pandemic and 12 COVID-19 related deaths. --- 1:45 p.m. Manitoba health officials are announcing 118 new COVID-19 cases and four additional deaths. Dr. Brent Roussin, the province's chief public health officer, says case numbers have been dropping, but Manitoba is not out of the woods yet. He says the province is looking at easing some restrictions in the coming days, but any changes will be done cautiously. --- 11:15 a.m. Quebec is reporting 1,634 new COVID-19 cases and 32 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Authorities say today's numbers include about 200 infections that were left out of Sunday's tally due to a transmission delay. Hospitalizations had been dropping for three consecutive days until today, when officials reported a rise of 31 patients, for a total of 1,491, and a rise of two people in intensive care, to 217. Quebec has reported 244,348 infections and 9,087 deaths linked to the virus since the start of the pandemic. --- 10:30 a.m. There are 2,578 new cases of COVID-19 in Ontario today and 24 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Ontario is also reporting that 40,300 tests were completed since the last daily update. Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 815 new cases of COVID-19 in Toronto and 507 in Peel Region. More than 9,600 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered since Ontario's last daily report. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 18, 2021. The Canadian Press
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UFC 260 is taking shape after UFC president Dana White on Saturday confirmed that it will feature a heavyweight title bout in addition to the already revealed featherweight championship. Expected to take place on March 27 at a location yet to be revealed, White said that a deal is done for Francis Ngannou to finally get his shot at heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic. Miocic vs. Ngannou is expected to headline UFC 260, which also features Alexander Volkanovski defending his featherweight belt against Brian Ortega. UFC 260 Stipe Miocic vs. Francis Ngannou Ngannou had his first crack at Miocic at UFC 220 in January of 2018. He had been shredding the opposition en route to the title shot, finishing all six of his UFC opponents, five of them by way of knockout. Miocic, however, proved too much for Ngannou, winning a unanimous decision. After then losing to Derrick Lewis, Ngannou has redeemed himself by knocking out his last four opponents, which include two former UFC heavyweight champions in Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez. Miocic has fought just three times since his victory over Ngannou, all three bouts were against Daniel Cormier. He lost the title to Cormier after defeating Ngannou, but recaptured the belt from him in August of 2019 and then defended it against Cormier in August of 2020. Why Max Holloway doesn't get a shot at Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 260 Volkanovski won the UFC featherweight title from Max Holloway in a close, but unanimous decision victory in December of 2019. He defended it in an immediate rematch in July of 2020, this time by split decision. Holloway has a stranglehold on the No. 1 ranking after dominating Calvin Kattar on Saturday. White went so far as to say that he deserves another shot at Volkanovski, but the next defense will be against No. 2 ranked Ortega at UFC 260 before Holloway gets another shot at regaining the belt. TRENDING > Rankings Review: Does Conor McGregor deserve his UFC ranking? UFC Fight Island 7: Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar Recap (Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube)
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Rohit Chopra to be the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, tapping a progressive ally of Sen. Elizabeth Warren to helm the agency whose creation she championed. Chopra, now a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, helped launch the consumer agency after the 2008-09 financial crisis and served as deputy director, where he sounded the alarm about skyrocketing levels of student loan debt. The pick comes as Democrats are eyeing ways to provide student loan relief to millions of Americans as part of a COVID-19 relief package. Biden announced the move Monday, along with his intent to nominate Gary Gensler, a former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as the next chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Gensler, a former Goldman Sachs banker, tightened oversight of the complex financial transactions that helped cause the Great Recession. Biden's choice of an expert with experience as a strong markets regulator during the financial crisis to lead the SEC signals a goal of turning the Wall Street watchdog agency toward an activist role after a deregulatory stretch during the Trump administration. Consumer and investor advocate groups praised the selections of Gensler and Chopra. Gensler, now a professor of economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, was an assistant Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration and later headed the CFTC during Barack Obama’s term. With a background of having worked for nearly 20 years at Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs, Gensler surprised many by being a tough regulator of big banks as CFTC chairman. Fluent in the nexus between politics and economic policy, Gensler was chief financial officer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign against Donald Trump and an economic adviser to Obama in his 2008 presidential bid. Gensler has been a leader and adviser of Biden’s transition team responsible for the Federal Reserve, banking issues and securities regulation. Jay Clayton, a former Wall Street lawyer who headed the SEC during the Trump administration, presided over a deregulatory push to soften rules affecting Wall Street and the financial markets, as Trump pledged when he took office. Rules under the Dodd-Frank law that tightened the reins on banks and Wall Street in the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession were nipped in. “Gensler will tip the SEC away from making it easy for companies to raise money and toward protecting unsophisticated investors," said Erik Gordon, an assistant professor of business at the University of Michigan. “His history in the Obama administration leaves him few friends on the Republican side — and he probably doesn’t care." The senior Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, said Gensler's receptiveness to new financial technologies and cryptocurrency are positive. But he added, “I fear Democrats want to steer the (SEC) away from bipartisan common ground in an attempt to achieve their most partisan goals." Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the senior Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee who is set to become its chairman, said Gensler's record as a regulator “demonstrates that he will hold bad actors accountable and put the interests of working families first." Brown said Chopra will return the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to its central mission of protecting consumers and also will “ensure the agency plays a leading role in combatting racial inequities in our financial system." The CFPB was created at Warren's behest as an independent agency by the Dodd-Frank law. Its director was given broad latitude to act alone, without winning agreement from members of an agency board. While it enforces consumer-protection laws, the CFPB also gained powers to scrutinize the practices of virtually any business selling financial products and services: credit card companies, payday lenders, mortgage servicers, debt collectors, for-profit colleges, auto lenders, money-transfer agents. Chopra was a deputy to its first director, Richard Cordray, as the agency undertook enforcement actions against an array of companies large and small, and returned tens of billions of dollars to consumers harmed by illegal practices. The CFPB became a keen target of conservative Republicans. Trump named then-White House budget director Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the CFPB when Cordray left in November 2017. Mulvaney had been a vocal critic of the consumer agency and made deep changes to it, softening regulations on payday loans, for example, and pulling back on enforcement efforts. The agency has been led by Trump appointee Kathy Kraninger since December 2018. As one of two Democratic commissioners on the five-member Federal Trade Commission, Chopra has been an outspoken critic of practices by big companies, especially tech giant Facebook. He has lodged strong dissents on FTC actions against the company for privacy violations and alleged anti-competitive conduct, saying they didn't go far enough. Marcy Gordon And Zeke Miller, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — North America's perennial pipeline debate erupted anew Monday as president-elect Joe Biden's Day 1 plan to kill off the Keystone XL project cast a pall over hopes for a fresh start to the Canada-U.S. relationship. Critics cheered and champions fumed at word Biden's first day in the White House would likely end — for now — a politically fraught plan to send more than 800,000 added barrels a day of Canadian bitumen to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Those in Washington who cultivate and monitor the at-times-fragile ties between the two countries wondered, publicly and privately, about what the decision might portend. If nothing else, it likely points to the return of a more familiar cross-border dynamic, said Eric Miller, a Canada-U.S. expert and president of the D.C.-based Rideau Potomac Strategy Group. "We can take from it that, as a going-in proposition, the Biden administration is probably not going to be inclined to work with Canada on things that Canada wants, but it will be happy to work with Canada on things that it wants," Miller said. "To some extent, this is a return to form, where Canada often finds itself in a position where it has to fight hard to get changes made." A hard fight, including in court should it come to that, is exactly what Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is promising. "The United States government owes Canada the respect to at least sit down with us and talk about this vital project in the broader context," said Kenney, whose government gave the project a $1.5-billion infusion last year. "Surely the relationship between Canada and the United States is worth at least having that discussion." Biden's plan is outlined in transition documents seen by The Canadian Press. They suggest he intends to sign an executive order on inauguration day to rescind the presidential permit for the pipeline issued in 2019 by President Donald Trump. The decision is less surprising than the timing. Biden's campaign had already promised to block the project, but making it a symbolic Day 1 move — an effort to satisfy the combative progressive wing of the Democrats — stings. Perrin Beatty, president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, urged the incoming administration to think twice. Such a decision "would strain relations between our two countries and waste an opportunity to work together on a shared U.S.-Canada strategy to fight climate change," Beatty said in a statement. "We ask President Biden to take time to analyze this innovative project and its role in spurring a green transition to a healthier economy." The Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters also voiced concern about the looming threat of Buy American, Biden's promise to prioritize U.S.-based workers, manufacturers and suppliers in the coming effort to rebuild the U.S. economy. "Excluding each other from our respective government procurement markets could seriously hurt our precarious economic recovery," said CME president and CEO Dennis Darby. Kenney and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe say halting construction on the controversial project will be disastrous for both the Canadian and U.S. economies. In hopes of winning favour with Biden, pipeline owner TC Energy Corp. confirmed Sunday an ambitious plan to spend $1.7 billion US on a solar, wind and battery-powered operating system for the pipeline to ensure it is zero-emission by 2030. Moe, meanwhile, is mobilizing his government's Washington network and urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet with Biden as soon as possible. Trudeau has stayed mum so far, leaving it to Canada's ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman, to sing the project's praises in the most diplomatic way possible. Trudeau's political critics, meanwhile, have pounced. Federal Green Leader Annamie Paul accused the Liberals of hypocrisy, paying lip service to climate change while they go ahead with three drilling projects off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. The three projects, about 350 kilometres east of St. John's, were approved following an extensive environmental assessment, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said last week. "Please do not allow them to to fool you into thinking that these are the only jobs that are possible for you," Paul said. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, meanwhile, warned the federal government away from backing Kenney's legal fight. "I don’t think that's a good use of our time. That’s not a good use of our resources," Singh said. "We should be finding ways to create good jobs for these workers that are long-lasting and help us fight the climate crisis." This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 18, 2021. James McCarten, The Canadian Press