Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Nancy Macdonald
Publication Date: July 30, 2025 - 21:21
Bev Priestman says she ‘had to get out’ of Canada after drone-spying scandal
July 30, 2025
Bev Priestman, the former head coach of Canada’s women’s national soccer team – who was banned by FIFA for her role in a drone spying scandal at the Paris Olympics – has been hired as head coach of New Zealand’s only professional women’s team.
Priestman made her return to soccer this week after her one-year ban. The ban expired the day before New Zealand’s Wellington Phoenix announced Priestman would be the new coach of their women’s squad.
Guyana, a country of roughly one million people perched on the northeastern corner of South America, is one of the world’s fastest growing economies thanks to a super-charged nation-building project: the accelerated development of gigantic offshore oil fields.
In just six years, one of the continent’s poorest nations has emerged as the world’s newest petrostate. The discovery, though, has enraged Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro and revived his government’s claims to Guyanese territory in a century-old boundary dispute.
These issues of nation-building and sovereignty are familiar...
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Canada’s new trade minister aims to boost deals in South America, Asia, and Africa, and urges firms to use existing trade pacts more effectively.
August 3, 2025 - 08:46 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Canada’s new trade minister aims to boost deals in South America, Asia, and Africa, and urges firms to use existing trade pacts more effectively.
August 3, 2025 - 08:46 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
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