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After a week-long drive across Canada, a huge “Freedom Convoy” of big rigs arrived in Ottawa over the weekend, causing chaos and bringing the whole city to a standstill. Truckers are protesting a vaccine mandate for the industry brought in by Trudeau. Under the measures, unvaccinated cross-border truckers have to quarantine when they return home. Despite the majority of the protests being peaceful, the police said it had opened several investigations into violence and threating behavior around the demonstrations....

Instead, they scraped and clawed and scraped again to skate away with a 5-3 win in Game 5 on Wednesday night and remain in bubble hockey for a few more days. Here are three takeaways from the Habs’ season-saving win: Brendan Gallagher has arrived Gallagher tickled the twine a team-leading (tied with Tomas Tatar) 22 times during the regular season, but eight games had come and gone in the postseason for the feisty winger and he still hadn’t found the back of the net....

MORE: Tamika Catchings speaks about Summitt’s impact | Summitt’s career in photos After an 89-84 victory Tuesday night by Parker’s Los Angeles Sparks, the former No. 1 selection reflected on her former coach in an interview with ESPN’s Holly Rowe. Parker was exceptional in the win, scoring 31 points, and recording a season-high 13 rebounds. She even wore orange shoes with the word ‘‘rebound’’ on them. “It was difficult, but I felt a lot of strength from her and the Lady Vol family," Parker said in the postgame interview....

Mission accomplished. Taking his talents to the legendary Madison Square Garden for the first time, Canelo (51-1-2, 35 KOs) dropped Rocky Fielding (27-2, 15 KOs) four times en route to a third-round TKO to become the WBA (Regular) super middleweight champion in front of a sold-out crowd of 20,112. MORE: Join DAZN and watch archived Canelo fights The bout with Fielding served as the first fight of Canelo’s historic five-year, $365 million deal with sports streaming service DAZN....

Mexican superstar Alvarez has not fought since he became a four-weight world champion last November, stopping Sergey Kovalev in Round 11 of their WBO light-heavyweight title clash. Since then he has split from Golden Boy Promotions and proposed fights have not come to fruition, including a clash with Billy Joe Saunders that had looked set to happen in September. There had been reports he planned a return against IBF super-middleweight champion Caleb Plant, but it will be fellow 30-year-old Smith (27-0) who opposes Alvarez (53-1-2) for the WBA super-middleweight belt....

The face of boxing will move up from middleweight to face WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Nov. 2, live on DAZN. If he’s victorious, Alvarez will become a four-division world champion. The 29-year-old Canelo (52-1-2, 35 KOs) is coming off an impressive unanimous decision over Daniel Jacobs in May to claim the IBF middleweight title, but he was stripped of the belt after failing to reach a purse bid with mandatory challenger Sergiy Derevyanchenko....

Archaeological finds made on the outskirts of Canterbury, in Kent on England’s shoreline along the English Channel, confirm the presence of people in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago, making it one of the earliest known Paleolithic sites in northern Europe. The breakthrough, involving controlled digs and radiometric dating, comes a century after stone tool artifacts were first uncovered at the site. The research, led by Cambridge University archaeologists, confirms that Homo heidelbergensis, an ancestor of Neanderthals, occupied southern Britain in the period when it was still attached to Europe....

General manager Jim Benning’s squad hasn’t qualified for the postseason since 2015 and has been in rebuilding mode for the last few seasons. Travis Green has been doing what he can to fix the culture in his two seasons so far behind the bench, but that hasn’t helped much in the standings as the Canucks continue to finish in the basement of the NHL. Despite standout performances from Brock Boeser, Bo Horvat and rookie Elias Pettersson, Vancouver couldn’t gain momentum last season — probably due to a lack of offense beyond those three — and finished fourth-to-last in the Western Conference....

The Lewy Body Dementia Association describes Capgras syndrome as a “temporary but sometimes repeated belief that a caregiver, family member, or location has been replaced by an identical imposter.” The most common subject of Capgras syndrome is the spouse or significant other. Experts estimate that up to 17% of people with dementia with Lewy bodies experience Capgras syndrome. Hallucinations and Capgras Syndrome Research indicates that hallucinations in Lewy body dementia are highly correlated with the development of Capgras syndrome....

Some Americans may take quiet satisfaction from the euro’s slide. After all, this is a case of private Europeans (corporations, institutional and personal investors) voting with their money in favor of the United States. In 1999 Europeans bought about $200 billion worth of U.S. stocks and bonds. Corporate takeovers of U.S. firms added to the total. Many Europeans see America as an economic and technological wonderland. They want in on the action....

The 14-year veteran extended his point streak to a career-high 14 games in the Washington Capitals’ 4-3 shootout win over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night. Ovechkin scored during a 4-on-4 when he unleashed a slap shot past Sabres goalie Carter Hutton’s glove to tie the game 3-3 in the second period. The goal was Ovechkin’s seventh in a three-game span after he scored hat tricks in the Capitals’ last two games....

Washington was tied with the Red Wings 3-3 Friday night in Detroit at the end of regulation. Early in the overtime period, Ovechkin drew a tripping penalty to force a power play. Then just 1:56 into the extra period, it was Ovechkin who caught a pass from Nicklas Backstrom and fired into the net to score the goal and give the Capitals the 4-3 road win. MORE: NHL milestones within reach during the 2017-18 season...

That time came Monday night for the Capitals. After Tom Wilson scored an empty-netter to seal his team’s 6-3 win over the just-eliminated Rangers (thanks to the Bruins’ 3-0 win over the Devils), the Capitals social team posted a graphic that seemed to praise the forward in a now-deleted tweet: MORE: Capitals’ Tom Wilson punches Pavel Buchnevich in head, slams Artemi Panarin to ice Sure, Wilson notched his 13th goal of the season, with the bottom section paying homage to the Bruins’ David Pastrnak tweet right before bubble hockey last summer, which read: “In my opinion, Tom Wilson is the best goal scorer in the league....

If George Tenet’s departure was carefully choreographed by the White House, it looks like somebody may have forgotten to tell Bush. The purpose of forcing the resignation of a high-level official is to make the boss look good, and the president looked shell-shocked. He said he was sorry the intelligence chief was leaving, and he praised Tenet’s tenure in government. Bush’s remarks had the feel of a negotiated settlement, as in “I won’t rat on you if you don’t rat on me....

One Democratic Senate staffer said that when a tragedy like this strikes, there are all the usual tributes–but in Wellstone’s case, they happen to be true. Wellstone was a genuinely nice guy, admired for his solid middle-American values, his lack of pretense and his willingness to stand up for what he believed whatever the political consequences. Nothing incensed him more than the suggestion that he needed “political cover” for anything....

But not everybody applauds Carter. The most stinging criticism has come from the neoconservatives who are President Bush’s biggest backers as he prepares for war with Iraq. They wonder why five guys in Norway get to play God and decide who’s a peacemaker. They think the Bushes, father and son, are more deserving because of their willingness to confront evil through the barrel of a gun rather than talk it to death the way Carter does....

In a now-deleted video, Alexander said that he “schemed” with Republican Representatives Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs of Arizona as well as Mo Brooks of Alabama “to put maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting” to certify the election on January 6. Gosar and Alexander both spoke at a December 19 “Stop the Steal” rally in Phoenix, Arizona. At the rally, Alexander called Biggs a “friend” and a “hero....

Corporal Tony Dunn of the Mississippi Highway Patrol Department of Public Affairs told AL.com Wednesday morning that Tenpenny was involved in a single-car crash. His car collided with a highway sign at about 5 p.m., per Dunn. When he hit the sign, his car went airborne and it began rolling once it landed back on the ground. The car eventually hit a utility pole and Tenpenny was ejected from the vehicle....

The protest was organized in response to a July 4 incident in Lake Monroe in which Black man Vauhxx Rush Booker, a member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, was allegedly attacked by a group of white men and threatened with being lynched. “So this just happened IN Bloomington, Indiana… a lady was hit by this car and the driver sped off. WITH HER STILL ON THE HOOD,” tweeted Rodney Root while sharing a brief clip of the car speeding away....

Meanwhile, Premier League leaders Manchester City will take on Championship upstarts Bristol City, who managed a stunning upset of Manchester United on Wednesday. Chelsea led for most of their fifth-round match against fellow Premier League side Bournemouth, but a late goal from Dan Gosling appeared to be sending the match to extra time, only for an Alvaro Morata stoppage-time winner to ensure the Blues’s passage into the semi. Arsenal found things a little more comfortable with a 1-0 win in another London derby, against West Ham United, on Tuesday....