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Play was a casualty of the pandemic. Here's what kids really need as lockdowns are lifted With play dates cancelled and some playgrounds closed, scholar and author Tim Gill says he's worried children's play has been an overlooked casualty of COVID-19. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: May 23, 2021 12:09 PM ET | Last Updated: May 23 A child uses a swingset during socially distanced recess in Louisville, Kentucky. Tim Gill says children's play is one of the overlooked casualties of COVID-19.( Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

China slams Taiwan over foreign minister's comments in CBC interview cbc.ca 3 days ago Brennan MacDonald © Andy Wong/The Associated Press Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian accused Taiwan of 'clumsy political manipulation' after Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu gave an interview to CBC News calling on fellow democracies to voice more support for Taiwan in the face of an increasingly hostile China. A spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry accused Taiwan of "clumsy political manipulation" and "grandstanding" after Taiwan's foreign minister gave an i...

What happened in Belarus?And why a reporter got off the plane and escaped and was arrested As civilian planes fled the airspace, Belarus’s isolation deepened, the European Union enacted new sanctions and officials expressed concern about the welfare of opposition journalists. Roman Protasevich was arrested on Sunday because he was removed from a plane transferred to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, in what the West calls a state-sponsored hijacking. The plane flew from Greece to Lithuania. Take a quick look at how we got here: Why does Belarus have objections? The President of Belarus, Alexa...

By suppressing opposition through harsh police actions and keeping much of the country's economy under state control, Lukashenko has made Belarus a neo-Soviet outlier, wary of its thriving NATO and European Union neighbours. People attend an opposition rally in Minsk in September 2020 to protest the presidential election results and the inauguration of Lukashenko.(Reuters) Who is Roman Protasevich? The 26-year-old dissident journalist has been an anti-Lukashenko voice since he was a teen. His protest activities got him expelled from school and later from the Belarusian State Universi...

China has crushed opposition in Hong Kong, Taiwan fears it is next In the face of an increasingly hostile China, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu joined CBC News Network's Power & Politics Monday to call on fellow democracies to voice more support for Taiwan. "We cannot allow a democratic Taiwan to be taken over by China," said Wu. Social Sharing ‘We cannot allow a democratic Taiwan to be taken over by China,’ said Taiwan’s foreign minister Posted: May 24, 2021 5:00 PM ET | Last Updated: May 26 Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu tells CBC that he wants fellow democracies to pay more a...