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Svitolina beats Wozniacki 6-4, 6-0 for WTA’s Rogers title
Aug14

Svitolina beats Wozniacki 6-4, 6-0 for WTA’s Rogers title

TORONTO — Elina Svitolina beat Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 6-0 to win the Rogers Cup final Sunday, giving her a fifth WTA Tour title this season. The 22-year-old Ukrainian used powerful groundstrokes and a big serve to keep the sixth-ranked Wozniacki off balance. A break at love in the ninth game gave the fifth-ranked Svitolina the edge in the first...

Elina Svitolina beats Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 6-0 to win Rogers Cup
Aug13

Elina Svitolina beats Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 6-0 to win Rogers Cup

TORONTO — Elina Svitolina defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 6-0 to win the Rogers Cup women’s tennis tournament on Sunday at Aviva Centre. It was Svitolina’s fifth WTA Tour title of the season. The 22-year-old Ukrainian used powerful groundstrokes and a big serve to keep the sixth-ranked Wozniacki off balance. A break at love at 4-4...

U.S. debate on arming Ukraine puts pressure on Russia, Trump
Aug13

U.S. debate on arming Ukraine puts pressure on Russia, Trump

Seeking leverage with Russia, the Trump administration has reopened consideration of long-rejected plans to give Ukraine lethal weapons, even if that would plunge the United States deeper into the former Soviet republic’s conflict. …read more Source: CTV...

Trump administration reopens consideration of rejected plans to arm Ukraine
Aug13

Trump administration reopens consideration of rejected plans to arm Ukraine

Deliberations put pressure on Trump, who’s fighting perceptions he is soft on the Kremlin amid investigations into whether his campaign colluded with Moscow …read more Source: The Globe and...

Wozniacki beats Stephens to reach Rogers Cup women’s tennis final
Aug12

Wozniacki beats Stephens to reach Rogers Cup women’s tennis final

TORONTO — Sixth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki defeated Sloane Stephens 6-2, 6-3 on Saturday afternoon to reach the final of the Rogers Cup women’s tennis tournament. Wozniacki will play either defending champion Simona Halep of Romania or Elina Svitolina of Ukraine in the championship on Sunday. Stephens had her serve broken in the opening game...

Top-ranked Pliskova eliminated by former world No. 1 Wozniacki at Rogers Cup
Aug12

Top-ranked Pliskova eliminated by former world No. 1 Wozniacki at Rogers Cup

TORONTO — Caroline Wozniacki made some changes this week to try to change her fortune in a city that has not been kind on the tennis front. Personal driver? Not needed this time around. Same hotel as before? Switch that booking. Wozniacki is not only winning in Toronto for the first time in her career, she’s doing it against the...

Why the sons of Russian spies qualify as Canadians
Aug11

Why the sons of Russian spies qualify as Canadians

Alex and Tim Foley in Bangkok in 2011. (Tim and Alex Foley) Peggy Ann Osborne and Don Chapman are the lead researcher and founder, respectively, for Lost Canadians, a volunteer group of Canadian advocates working to restore rightful citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Canadians who have fallen between the cracks of citizenship laws. The...

What can Canada do for Venezuela?
Aug11

What can Canada do for Venezuela?

(Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) Ben Rowswell was Canada’s ambassador to Venezuela from 2014 until last month, when he retired from the Canadian foreign service. He’s now working in Toronto as co-founder of Udara, a software venture that provides an app designed to help activist groups connect with supporters through their mobile...

Bouchard bows out of Rogers Cup with doubles loss, partner Pliskova advances in singles
Aug11

Bouchard bows out of Rogers Cup with doubles loss, partner Pliskova advances in singles

TORONTO — The old-school Eugenie Bouchard returned to the court Thursday at the Rogers Cup. Her smile was back and there was spring in her step. She looked like the player who enjoyed a breakout season in 2014. The only thing missing was a victory. Bouchard, who has been unable to shake a long singles slump, teamed with Karolina Pliskova for a...

FBI raided former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s home
Aug09

FBI raided former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s home

Manafort has been a subject of a longstanding FBI investigation into his dealings in Ukraine …read more Source: The Globe and...