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South Korea protests penalties assessed in short track

Quebec City MP Joël Lightbound said Tuesday that governments shouldn’t dismiss the concerns of people who want health measures to be lifted.

WHO team in Wuhan departs quarantine for COVID origins study

WUHAN, China - A World Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

The researchers, who were required to isolate for 14 days after arriving in China, left their quarantine hotel with their luggage — including at least four yoga mats — in the midafternoon and headed to another hotel.

The mission has become politically charged, as China seeks to avoid blame for alleged missteps in its early response to the outbreak. A major question is where the Chinese side will allow the researchers to go and whom they will be able to talk to.

Yellow barriers blocked the entrance to the hotel, keeping the media at a distance. Before the researchers boarded their bus, workers wearing protective outfits and face shields could be seen loading their luggage, including two musical instruments and a dumbbell.

Winnipeg Jets’ Hellebuyck wins Vezina Trophy

EDMONTON — There was no red carpet for Connor Hellebuyck to walk, no glitzy awards ceremony on the Vegas strip as is typically the case. Just a quiet steak dinner with family at his Michigan home Monday evening followed by a virtual announcement that his spectacular season had ended with a Vezina Trophy.

It may not have been as he dreamed it, thanks to COVID-19, but it didn’t dull the occasion one bit. The Winnipeg Jets star was named the NHL’s best goaltender in a ceremony prior to Game 2 of the Stanley Cup final.

“It was just one of those moments where I couldn’t believe that it actually happened. Everyone had a big smile on their face and they were all clapping. It was just a proud moment,” Hellebuyck said on a Zoom conference call shortly after the announcement was made.

It’s the first time a Jets netminder — from either the 1.0 or 2.0 eras — has won the award, and the first major individual trophy for any Jet since Teemu Selanne won the Calder for rookie of the year way back in 1993.

The circle of life — garden-sized

“The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.” — Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), horticulturalist

It’s a chilly day for August — more like fall — but in the garden things are progressing as nicely as if every day this summer had been the perfect combination of sun and showers.

The peonies are spent, their heavy heads with a hangdog look. Soon the petals will fall, revealing the jester-hat seedpods within. The lilacs, too, their beautiful, fragrant blossoms now transformed into brown scruff.

But the day lilies are plumping up, ready for their big reveal. And the roses are still magnificent — dozens and dozens of fuchsia, red, white and coral blooms that turn our stone circle into a heavenly scented bower. It is here where we come after a hard day’s work in the garden, newly scrubbed and wearing fresh clothes, to sit at a little bistro table and have a glass of wine and enjoy the results of our labour.

First Inuk GG sparks hope for new relationship

More than five years after he refused to intervene in a young man’s death by suicide in High Park, then lied about being on another call, a Toronto police officer has been demoted in rank for two years for his “serious” misconduct.