Sounds like Toronto Maple Leafs almost traded Knies to hated rival
The Toronto Maple Leafs almost pulled off a blockbuster deal with one of their biggest rivals last season. The 2025-26 season was one to forget for the Maple Leafs, who missed the playoffs for the first time in 10 years, which led to the team being sellers at the trade deadline. Multiple players were shipped off for future assets ...
https://www.blogto.com/sports_play/2026/06/knies-nearly-traded-hated-toronto-maple-leafs-rival/

Things were already tense on this rural Ontario town council. Now 3 members are suing 5 others
The simmering tensions dividing the leaders of a bucolic eastern Ontario township have now boiled over into the legal arena, with three council members suing all but one of their council colleagues over alleged abuses of their public positions.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/civil-suit-alleging-retribution-filed-between-potential-election-rivals-in-township-of-rideau-lakes-9.7163479?cmp=rss

Colombian presidential vote headed to run-off between pro-Trump, leftist rivals
Colombian right-wing outsider Abelardo de ‌la Espriella is set to compete in a run-off election for president against leftist senator Ivan Cepeda, voting results from the first-round election showed on Sunday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/colombia-presidential-vote-runoff-9.7218622?cmp=rss

Colombian presidential vote headed to run-off between pro-Trump, leftist rivals
Colombian right-wing outsider Abelardo de ‌la Espriella is set to compete in a run-off election for president against leftist senator Ivan Cepeda, voting results from the first-round election showed on Sunday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/colombia-presidential-vote-runoff-9.7218622?cmp=rss

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