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Masai Ujiri pushes back at the suit

Aug 20, 2020
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Evidence that Masai Ujiri was the aggrieved and not the aggressor that night in Oakland hit the internet late Tuesday. "Let's stop pretending this was ever about the credential." 📝: @MorganPCampbell cbc.ca/1.5692862
cbc.caOPINION | Masai Ujiri appears to only be guilty of celebrating while Black | CBC SportsIf you needed airtight video evidence that Masai Ujiri was the aggrieved and not the aggressor that night in Oakland, it hit the internet late Tuesday, when Ujiri’s legal team, after filing a lawsuit against Alan Strickland, published footage of the incident captured by the officer’s body camera.
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The counterclaim filed by Masai Ujiri over the on-court confrontation that followed the Toronto Raptors championship win met with reaction from team members who collectively watched the newly released video of the shoving match with an Alameda County sheriff’s deputy. Alan Strickland initially sued Ujiri for initiating aggression.


Pouring over a document dump

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Morneau, Kielburgers described as ‘besties’ in newly released documents
dlvr.itBill Morneau’s office, Kielburgers described as ‘besties’ in newly released documentsThe newly released documents documents include 5,000 pages of internal memos, e-mails and handwritten notes made by officials as they scrambled to put together the Canada Student Service Grant in April and May
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Now that more than 5,000 pages regarding the creation and implementation of the Canada Student Service Grant are public, new details emerge about ties between We Charity and the Liberals—and Conservatives claim coverups lie under what’s blacked out. Meanwhile, the latest leaks from Ottawa foreshadow sweeping social welfare reform.


“Statement: Six Shooter Company Training and Accountability.” The recording company responded to Danny Kenyon of the Dead South being accused of sexual misconduct and then leaving the Regina folk-bluegrass band. Six Shooter is also “engaged in an ongoing discussion” about a past Dead South song, “Banjo Odyssey.”


A different body part concern

Meghan Thee Stallion shared pictures of the foot injury sustained in a shooting before she became a bigger star alongside Cardi B on “WAP.” But despite a concealed weapon charge for Tory Lanez at the Hollywood Hills scene—which led to a petition to deport him back to Canada—the charge of felony assault with a firearm could be coming:

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D.A. Mulling Over Assault Charge Against Tory Lanez in Megan Thee Stallion Shooting
tmz.meD.A. Mulling Over Assault Charge Against Tory Lanez in Megan Thee Stallion ShootingD.A. mulling over charges against Tory Lanez in Megan Thee Stallion shooting.
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Allan Fotheringham dead at 87. The columnist cut his teeth on the B.C. political scene, but became nationally known through his 27 years on the last page of Maclean’s, plus newspaper appearances that included 14 years with the Toronto Sun. Paul Wells paid tribute to Fotheringham with a piece penned in the whimsical style of “Dr. Foth.”


Finally, a voice down the road

The Littlest Hobo theme lyricist John Crossen was notably memorialized after he died in March 2018: such was the stickiness of Terry Bush singing “Maybe Tomorrow.” The tune had another late-’90s life in the U.K. as a NatWest Bank jingle, which does more to explain how British folk singer Kate Rusby came around to cover it in quarantine:

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