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Photo courtesy: James Paddle/CFL.ca The Calgary Stampeders appear hopeful that Rene Paredes will be ready to rejoin the active roster in the relatively near future. “He’s doing better,” said head coach and general manager Dave Dickenson on Tuesday. “He does seem to be progressing and that’s a good sign. Jude (McAtamney)’s kicking well, just going to keep thinking about it and let Rene get healthy, but certainly good to see him out there.” The 41-year-old has a hip injury that’s prevented him from seeing the field so far this season. According to the team’s official report, he was a limited…

Federal officials said Tuesday that a Philadelphia construction worker who was shot and killed last week in a dispute with a homeowner was a member of a global gang of con artists. The Department of Homeland Security said Salis Hanrahan, 20, of the United Kingdom, was part of the Traveling Conmen Fraud Group. The criminal organization consists of Irish or U.K. nationals who overstay their temporary visas to the U.S. and pretend to be construction workers, according to the Department of Justice. Authorities said the fraudsters regularly scam prospective clients by quoting low prices and then boost their rates after…

Toronto has the worst air quality in the world as of Wednesday morning, with smoke from forest fires in northwestern Ontario settling in. IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company that operates the world’s largest real-time air quality information platform, ranked Canada’s largest city as the worst for air quality as of 8 a.m.Toronto sat ahead of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Delhi, India, Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Jerusalem, Israel.Environment Canada said in a yellow air quality warning that much of southern Ontario is impacted by the smoke, which may persist into Thursday for some areas.“As…

President Donald Trump has endorsed MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for Minnesota governor, praising him as “one of America’s greatest and most hard working Patriots” and giving formal backing to a fellow election denier a day before the Republican president delivers a national address he says will focus on election security. Lindell established his national profile from his TV advertising campaign as the MyPillow Guy and has been one of Trump’s most outspoken supporters, echoing the president’s false claims that his 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden was fraudulent. “Mike will be SPECTACULAR!!! He truly loves Minnesota, as do I,…

“Don’t try to understand it. Feel it.” An iconic and often quoted line from Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. And one I’d often use in defence of it. It is also a line I would urge people to remember when first watching Tenet. Tenet has been one of Christopher Nolan’s most divisive films ever since its COVID-19-plagued release. A mixed critical reception and underwhelming box office have made it one of his most underappreciated works. Personally, I have always sung its praises despite its flaws, and it is a film in which Nolan has explored some of his most interesting concepts. Nolan…

Driving on Atlixcáyotl Avenue, Puebla’s main thoroughfare, became a risky activity. There, from time to time, Rafael Zabalza, a 65-year-old Spanish pharmacist, would appear in a pickup truck and fire indiscriminately at drivers. Over three months he attacked at least 11 motorists and one motorcyclist at various points in Angelópolis, the city’s most exclusive neighborhood, spreading a sense of terror among Puebla residents. In the early hours of Tuesday the prosecutor’s office identified him and located him, and he greeted officers with gunfire at one of his properties. He was arrested along with an arsenal.According to the prosecutor’s office, Zabalza…

Reese Witherspoon posted a question to her Instagram account this week, and the answer might be harder to find than it looks. The caption read: “Some Reese lore…😎Which fun fact did you already know?” She didn’t announce a movie. She didn’t tease a book club pick. The post was a challenge, nothing more – and still managed 117,051 likes. Here’s the thing about “lore.” The word started circulating in gaming communities and online fandoms as shorthand for deep-cut knowledge. It’s the stuff that separates a casual fan from a true devotee – the hidden backstory, the trivia that only insiders…

The lifting of border controls between Spain and Gibraltar has closed “an open wound”, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Wednesday as an agreement allowing free movement across the frontier came into force. Speaking at a ceremony marking the removal of the metal gates separating the Spanish town of La Línea de la Concepción from the tiny British territory, Sánchez said the end of routine border checks marked a historic moment. “For decades, the border fence was exactly that, an open wound for the thousands of workers who crossed every day,” the Socialist leader said. “Today, we are making history,…

Shares in PayPal Holdings (Nasdaq: PYPL) are skyrocketing in premarket trading this morning after a report that the legacy digital payments platform has received a joint buyout offer from one of today’s most successful fintech companies and a major private equity firm. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? Early this morning, Reuters reported that the fintech giant Stripe and the private equity giant Advent International have offered to buy PayPal for well above its closing stock price on Tuesday. According to Reuters, Stripe and Advent made PayPal a buyout offer of $60.50 per share, equating to about $53…

Argentina fans have been warned they will be denied entry to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium for tonight’s World Cup semi-final against England if they attempt to smuggle in flags containing any reference to the Falkland Islands. The outline of the British controlled territory is a regular inclusion on the blue and white flag with Argentina insisting the archipelago in the South Atlantic belongs to them. The countries went to war over the Falklands in 1982, with over 900 people killed in the conflict, and they remained British, although it is still a major bone of contention. The Argentina fans continue to…