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Meanwhile, travel and tourism organizations are lobbying Ottawa to end the often pricy requirement for a negative P-C-R test to enter Canada by land without quarantining. The flags were hoisted at sunset Sunday so they could be lowered again at sunrise on Monday for Indigenous Veterans Day.

The federal government announced Friday its decision to raise the flags after talks with Indigenous groups. They were lowered in May in honour of Indigenous children who suffered and died at residential schools. After Remembrance Day, the flags will fly at full-mast once again, but will be lowered for National Truth and Reconciliation Day every Sept. The flags were lowered to half-mast on May 30 after the finding of what are believed to be hundreds of unmarked graves at a former residential school site in Kamloops, B.

Weeks later, the Cowessess First Nation located more than unmarked graves on the grounds of a former residential school in Saskatchewan. HOUSTON — Investigators are expected to examine the design of safety barriers and the use of crowd control in determining what led to a crush of spectators at a Houston music festival that left eight people dead and hundreds more injured. At last year's U. Open, Rakhee Kulkarni whipped a Spanish flag out of her bag to cheer one of her favorite players, Fernando Verdasco.

And that was enough to land her in trouble with security. The U. Open bans fans from waving national flags during matches, a guard informed her sternly. Brazil will look to …. Please enter an email address. Something went wrong. Everything you need to know about Merion's wicker baskets. More FTW. From The Web. The Latest. Soccer 53m ago Peru vs. Speaking of bittersweet, an ironic coda to the Rees Jones era is that the architect who introduced the practice of historical restoration at Brookline seems to have been displaced by a movement of restoration, at least as it pertains to major championships.

A little more than a decade ago, Hanse restored the North course at Los Angeles Country Club, bringing back the George Thomas elements from the s that had been gradually modified out of recognition. The impressive reveal—which included tree removal and tee lengthening—helped earn it the U. In addition to these two U. People like working with him. The s are the new s, and players who contend for Open and PGA titles in the next decade will do so under changed major-championship paradigms.

How players adapt to the new looks and demands of these clubs will determine the next roster of greatness. Then again, the greatest players have always proved they can win anywhere. Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer required no special setups. Andrews, and played exquisitely at Royal Melbourne in Australia—all courses that demand power, finesse and creativity.

He has also won at muscular point-to-point designs like Medinah and Bethpage. The latter style is what we can expect from Torrey this year, where thick rough and bunkers positioned to defend each landing area will mandate contenders drive the ball powerfully and straight and be able to recover from deep traps around the greens, all in accordance with the traditional Open dictums espoused by Dey, Tatum, Fay and even Jones. It will be a physical, nail-biting grind topped-off with a reachable par 5 at the finish capable of providing late-game explosions of drama.

Oakland Hills C. Full Leaderboard. Magazine U. Open Why Torrey Pines marks the end of a design era in majors. By Derek Duncan. Share this story Facebook Twitter LinkedIn. Rees Jones.