Lucy Soul
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Canada’s Olympic Gold Bonus Is Worth 8.7 Months of Carding. Bronze Is Worth 4.3.
Canada pays its top carded athletes a monthly living and training allowance, and it pays a separate cash award for…
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FIFA Quality Pro Allows a Football 3.2 Millimetres of Slack. FIFA Quality Allows 6.4.
Every ball used in a FIFA or confederation match has to carry one of three quality marks, and the marks…
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Curaçao Has One MLB Player for Every 39,000 People. Mexico Has One for Every 18.7 Million.
Major League Baseball counted 247 players born outside the 50 United States on its 2026 Opening Day rosters, and published…
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Flight Delay Compensation: Canada Pays by the Hour, the EU by the Kilometre, Brazil in Kind
Three of the busiest air travel markets in the Americas and Europe each answer the same question differently: what does…
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The History of Lacrosse in Canada: From Exclusion to National Sport
Lacrosse has been legally recognised as Canada’s national summer sport since 1994, but it existed for centuries before any government…
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What Is Futsal? Uruguay’s Small-Sided Game Now Has 232 Teams Playing in Canada
Futsal began as a five-a-side experiment in a Montevideo gym in 1930, and it ended up shaping the Brazilian players…
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Cineplex’s Best Quarter Ever Earned 61 Cents Per Moviegoer
Record Q2: $7.8 million profit and 12.7 million patrons. Divide one by the other and you get the real economics…
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McDonald’s Bet on Value Meals. Canadians Are Still Cutting Back.
U.S. comparable sales grew just 0.8%. The CEO blames execution, but full-service restaurants growing faster than fast food tells a…
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The 2026 World Cup Legacy That Is Not a Stadium: Networks, Ticketing and Who Owns the Expertise
Spain beat Argentina on 19 July. The tournament also left three countries a digital infrastructure inheritance, and an unanswered question…
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The Dying Art of the Direct Free-Kick: How Big Data is Reshaping Football’s Most Beautiful Moments
There is a unique kind of magic that descends on a football stadium when a foul is called right outside…