it’s all captured on officers’ body-cams and other videos, leading to another political discourse in a divided, powder-keg country that looks ready to explode while heading into its nov. 5 election. we can’t be high and mighty here in canada, deriding the u.s. while divisive politics are also becoming prevalent in canadian jurisdictions that discriminate against preferred pronoun usages , alternative lifestyles and religious freedom.
this column will likely illicit some familiar, “stick to sports!” comments, but those are impossible to heed because life, politics and sports keep colliding. they have been intertwined since the ancient olympics , when only naked men were supposedly allowed to vie for olive wreaths in wrestling, running and chariot races, at least until a female driver won an event for the horse’s male owner.
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right here and now, regina’s city council is involved in a three-way dispute involving a kids’ hockey academy and senior hockey players unhappy with the way they’re being treated by the regina exhibition association ltd. there’s a much bigger battle on the world stage, where neither russia nor belarus are represented these days at international sporting events because they invaded ukraine .
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