Wednesday, August 16th, 2023
Canada’s women’s rugby 7s team welcomes Aussie push ahead of Olympic qualifier
Series of exhibitions against top-ranked opponent provides growth in many areas Canada’s women’s rugby sevens team opted for the school of hard knocks ahead of this weekend’s Olympic qualifying tournament in Langford, B.C. And not the usual ones associated with a physical sport. What the team received from a series of exhibitions this summer against top-ranked Australia were lessons in tactics and play the organization believes will only help Canada in the long run. “We’re really just striving to improve from our performance last year, and playing against the bestRead more
1,200 homes on prime farmland: What’s known about the plan to develop the Greenbelt in Pickering, Ont.
Developer says ‘various housing types’ part of 1st phase of development on Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve The battle over the future of the largest chunk of land the province removed from the protected Greenbelt in December has intensified in the last week, ever since Ontario’s auditor general revealed how a small group of developers influenced the process. As many as 30,000 housing units could be built on the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve (DRAP) in north Pickering in the coming years, according to a city staff report from May 2023, on farmland that was supposed to beRead more