TORONTO – After the toughest stretch of his life, RJ Barrett lastly returned to his “sanctuary.”

Barrett, from close by Mississauga, Ont., led all scorers with 28 factors as his Toronto Raptors misplaced to the Los Angeles Lakers 128-111 on Tuesday. It was Barrett’s first time taking part in in an NBA sport for the reason that loss of life of his youthful brother Nathan Barrett.

“It simply felt good to be again on the market with the blokes,” stated Barrett, who stated after follow on Friday that basketball is his sanctuary. “Taking part in undoubtedly helped me really feel higher.”

Barrett added six assists and 6 rebounds as Toronto (23-52) misplaced its 14th sport in a row. The Raptors’ report for longest dropping skid is 17 consecutive video games, set throughout the 1997-98 season.

Immanuel Quickley additionally returned to Toronto’s lineup on Tuesday, scoring 20 factors with six assists. Quickley took a depart after his uncle Shawn Hamilton died of most cancers on March 20, lacking six video games. Barrett, whose 19-year-old brother died on March 14, missed 9 video games.

Barrett and Quickley performed collectively on the New York Knicks after which have been traded to Toronto on Dec. 30. Attending to return to the Raptors’ lineup following their private losses meant loads to Barrett.

“Throughout the entire course of, we have been continually checking on one another,” stated Barrett. “I’ve identified him for a very long time, we’ve been collectively for the previous 4 years, so it was undoubtedly laborious to undergo that however having any person like that to speak to positive helps.”

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D’Angelo Russell scored 25 factors and added seven assists as Los Angeles (43-33) received back-to-back video games.

All eyes have been on future Corridor of Famer LeBron James and all-star centre Anthony Davis, nonetheless. James had 23 factors and 9 assists whereas Davis earned a double-double with 21 factors and 12 rebounds.

“There’s all the time been mutual respect and love respect each time I come right here and play right here,” stated James, who obtained cheers each time he made an enormous play. “These followers are all the time appreciative of myself and I simply attempt to all the time give it again to them once I step out on the ground.”

Bruce Brown (proper knee soreness) left the sport within the fourth quarter and didn’t return. His damage was simply the newest in a sequence of well being setbacks for Toronto.

All-star ahead Scottie Barnes (left hand fracture), centre Jakob Poeltl (left hand torn ligament), guard Ochai Agbaji (proper hip contusion), ahead Chris Boucher (partial MCL tear), guard D.J. Carton (proper ankle sprain) and Jontay Porter (private causes) are already out.

Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic stated that Barrett and Quickley’s return to the lineup did extra than simply enhance the on-court product.

“Basketball is an escape for all of us,” stated Rajakovic. “It’s one thing that gamers love, coaches love, you guys love, everyone loves.

“That is our escape, and that is our protected place and we’re blessed to do basketball for a residing.”

Toronto is mathematically eradicated from the post-season however the remaining seven video games within the season nonetheless matter.

The Raptors’ first-round choose on this summer season’s NBA Draft is conditional, following a commerce with the San Antonio Spurs final season for Poeltl. Toronto has the sixth-worst report within the NBA but when the draft lottery on Might 12 shuffles them to seventh or greater that choose goes to San Antonio.

The Raptors have a 37.2 per cent likelihood within the lottery of transferring up into one of many high 4 draft spots and a 9 per cent likelihood of drafting first general.

Davis and James had 9 factors apiece within the third because the Lakers blew the sport vast open, with a 17-5 run within the last 4 minutes of the quarter lifting the guests to a 100-79 lead. Barrett introduced the sold-out crowd of 19,800 to their toes with a thunderous dunk with 2.1 seconds left within the interval.

Los Angeles, making an attempt to realize floor within the aggressive Western Convention playoff chase, didn’t let up within the fourth quarter, main by as many as 32 factors. Lakers head coach Darvin Ham put all his starters on the bench with six minutes left to play.

“It completely helps. Each minute counts,” stated the 39-year-old James about taking part in lower than 29 minutes within the sport. “I used to be capable of get again right here and get occurring the remedy and my prep, and begin making ready my physique, hopefully, for tomorrow night time.”

UP NEXT — Toronto visits the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday.

The Lakers proceed their East Coast swing on Wednesday with a cease in Washington, D.C.

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed April 2, 2024.

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Jared Leto hosted a portion of “Wheel of Fortune” on Monday as an April Fools Day prank. Originally of the present, Leto walked out with the present’s letter-turner, Vanna White. The announcer of the present then stated, “Listed below are the celebs of our present, Jared Leto and Vanna White.” They then parted methods as White does each evening with the standard host Pat Sajack, with White going to the board and Leto going to the wheel with out explaining why he was there. Leto then hosted the opening puzzle, with the friends being barely confused as to why he was there.After the primary puzzle was accomplished, Pat Sajack returned to the wheel and Leto left, with none rationalization.Later, Wheel of Fortune posted on Instagram in regards to the host switcheroo saying, “Did you discover something completely different in tonight’s present?! #AprilFools.”

I wouldn’t understand how to decide on the music, however my luxurious merchandise for Desert Island Discs can be simple: binoculars. My one objection is asking them a luxurious. I’ve had a pair round my neck for what looks like many of the final 50 years.

It’s not solely you can see issues extra clearly: binoculars allow you to expertise the dwelling world as people seldom do. A feminine adder, for instance, went from the solely formal form in a random scatter of vegetation to a exact triple coil of black zigzags on brown.

With my “bins” I may see her blood-red eyes like polished garnets – and dorsal scales all through her 50cm size, each one marked with a raised keel just like the central vane that runs by means of a feather. As she rotated slowly, these keels – in addition to the dimensions edges when the solar caught her twisting physique – offered as momentary splinters of sunshine.

Each person of binoculars is aware of that, if I’d been capable of get nearer, I may have turned the lenses the other way up and seen her magnified to the form of beautiful element her mate should know. For she was joined by a male. They had been virtually definitely of breeding age, and it was unusual to assume that they’ve lain hereabouts for 4 years and, since they possess neither eardrum nor tympanum cavity, have by no means as soon as heard this skylark music rolling overhead. Actually, rattled cans and blown bugles have been proven to elicit nothing from resting adders.

But if I took a single step nearer they might immediately really feel my vibrations by means of the bottom. Think about what info flows by means of a snake’s underside, every one of many ventral scales a heightened nerve-ended receptor attuned to the world because it strikes about them. How they need to really feel the earth.

I inferred a bit of this as I watch him sidewind throughout her, his stomach pressed down in order that the underside scales scraped slowly over her in curving ritual, till I couldn’t inform one snake’s coils from the opposite’s, and his head, shunting ahead in awkward, excited, jerky actions, appeared at odds with the candy circulation of his complete physique.

Tous les décès se sont produits dans la région de Hualien, près de l’épicentre du séisme dans l’est de l’île, a annoncé l’agence nationale de lutte anti-incendie. Trois des victimes ont péri sur un sentier de randonnée, et la quatrième dans un tunnel routier.

Le centre des opérations de secours de Taipei a confirmé ce bilan et fait état de près de soixante blessés.

La magnitude du séisme sous-marin a été estimée à 7,5 par l’Agence météorologique japonaise (JMA), à 7,4 par l’Institut américain d’études géologiques (USGS) et à 7,2 par l’Agence météorologique taïwanaise (CWA).

Il s’est produit peu avant 20 h (HAE), selon ces agences, et a été suivi de plusieurs répliques. Son épicentre a été détecté en mer à faible profondeur au giant des côtes est de Taïwan.

J’ai voulu m’enfuir, mais je n’étais pas habillé. C’était tellement fort, a raconté Kelvin Hwang, un shopper d’un hôtel de la capitale Taipei, qui s’est réfugié dans le corridor de l’ascenseur au neuvième étage.

Des règles de development strictes et une bonne préparation aux catastrophes naturelles semblent avoir permis d’éviter une disaster majeure pour l’île, régulièrement frappée par des séismes.

À Hualien, deux bâtiments se sont effondrés et ont pris au piège des personnes, a indiqué un responsable des pompiers de ce port de près de 100 000 habitants, situé au pied d’une chaîne de montagnes et de gorges.

Des bulldozers ont été mobilisés pour dégager des rochers qui bloquaient des routes vers Hualien, selon des photographs diffusées par les chaînes de télévision locales.

Le tremblement de terre a initialement déclenché des alertes au tsunami à Taïwan, dans les îles du sud-ouest du Japon et dans plusieurs provinces des Philippines, où la inhabitants des zones côtières a été priée de gagner les hauteurs.

Les autorités japonaises et philippines ont finalement annulé leurs alertes, et le Centre d’alertes au tsunami du Pacifique, un observatoire régional basé à Hawaï, a annoncé vers 22 h que la menace de tsunami était maintenant largement passée, tout en appelant les habitants des régions littorales à rester prudents.

L’aéroport de Naha, le plus necessary de l’île japonaise d’Okinawa, a suspendu le trafic aérien et les vols prévus vers cette vacation spot ont été déroutés. Les enregistrements des vols au départ ont cependant repris après la levée de l’alerte.

Aucune victime n’a été signalée dans la région d’Okinawa, a dit le porte-parole du gouvernement nippon, Yoshimasa Hayashi. Selon la JMA, des vagues de 30 cm ont été signalées dans les îles de Yonaguni et de Miyako, et de 20 cm dans celle d’Ishigaki, toutes situées à l’extrême sud-ouest de l’archipel.

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À Taïwan, des pictures publiées par l’Agence centrale d’informations (CNA) ont montré un bâtiment rouge de sept étages à Hualien partiellement effondré et incliné à environ 60 degrés.

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Un séisme de magnitude 7,6 avait alors fait 2400 morts, la pire disaster de l’histoire moderne de Taïwan.

Dans la capitale taïwanaise, le métro a brièvement cessé de fonctionner, mais le trafic a repris au bout d’une heure. Les habitants ont été priés de vérifier d’éventuelles fuites de gaz provoquées par la secousse.

Normes de development

Situés à la frontière de plusieurs plaques tectoniques, Taïwan et le Japon sont fréquemment touchés par des séismes. Pour limiter les risques autant que attainable, les deux pays appliquent des normes de development parmi les plus strictes dans le monde.

Au Japon, la disaster de Fukushima en mars 2011, qui a fait environ 20 000 morts et disparus, est encore dans toutes les mémoires.

Un séisme sous-marin de magnitude 9,0 avait entraîné un gigantesque tsunami sur la côte nord-est du pays, lequel avait aussi provoqué l’accident nucléaire de Fukushima Daiichi, le pire depuis celui de Tchernobyl en 1986.

La péninsule de Noto, dans le centre du Japon, a par ailleurs subi un séisme de magnitude 7,5 le 1er janvier, qui a fait plus de 240 morts, notamment à trigger de l’effondrement de nombreuses maisons anciennes en bois.

Dans une publication sur X, Emergency Information BC a indiqué qu’il n’y avait pas de menace de tsunami pour la Colombie-Britannique.

De plus, le Centre d’alerte au tsunami pour la région du Pacifique a avisé qu’aucune menace ne visait Hawaï et le territoire américain de Guam.

LeBron James’ son Bronny has actually had a novel first yr as a university scholar at USC being the kid of among the best basketball gamers of all time.

Nonetheless, the youthful James will reportedly be taking a step that has turn into fairly widespread amongst school athletes.

On Tuesday, veteran basketball reporter Dick Weiss first reported that Bronny James is coming into the switch portal.

The transfer would come after USC’s coach, Andy Enfield, left for a similar place at SMU after the Trojans went simply 15-18 within the 2023-24 season.

Listed by USC at 6-foot-4 and 210 kilos, Bronny James appeared in 25 video games as a freshman with six begins and averaged 4.8 factors and a couple of.8 rebounds in 19.6 minutes per sport.

He missed the primary eight video games of the season after struggling cardiac arrest final summer season.

The 19 year-old has had a substantial amount of hype surrounding him for a few years and there was vast debate relating to his readiness and skill to play within the NBA, one thing his father has mentioned he wish to do along with his son.

It’s unclear whether or not or not Bronny James will switch to a faculty sponsored by Nike, which was a think about his resolution to go to USC out of highschool, as LeBron James has a lifetime contract with the corporate.

The strongest earthquake in a quarter-century rocked Taiwan through the morning rush hour Wednesday, killing 9 individuals, stranding dozens of employees at quarries and sending some residents scrambling out the home windows of broken buildings.

The quake, which additionally injured greater than 1,000, was centered off the coast of rural, mountainous Hualien County, the place some buildings leaned at extreme angles, their floor flooring crushed. Simply over 150 kilometres away within the capital of Taipei, tiles fell from older buildings, and colleges evacuated their college students to sports activities fields, equipping them with yellow security helmets.

Rescuers fanned out in Hualien, which comprises a metropolis of the identical identify, searching for individuals who could also be trapped and utilizing excavators to stabilize broken buildings. The numbers of individuals lacking, trapped or stranded fluctuated incessantly as authorities discovered of extra in hassle and labored to find or free them.

Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring company mentioned the quake was 7.2 magnitude whereas the U.S. Geological Survey put it at 7.4. It struck about 18 kilometres off of Hualien, on Taiwan’s east coast, and was about 35 kilometres deep.

“It was very sturdy. It felt as if the home was going to topple,” mentioned Chang Yu-lin, 60, a employee in a hospital in Taipei, the capital.

A girl who runs bed-and-breakfast lodging in Hualien metropolis mentioned she scrambled to calm her visitors who have been frightened by the quake.

“That is the most important earthquake I’ve ever skilled,” mentioned the girl, who requested to be recognized solely by her household identify, Chan.

Video confirmed rescuers utilizing ladders to assist trapped individuals out of home windows, whereas elsewhere there have been huge landslides, as sturdy tremors in Taipei compelled the subway system to shut briefly, though most traces resumed service.

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Crews working to rescue individuals trapped after Taiwan quake

Rescue crews are attempting to get to individuals left trapped after a robust earthquake rattled Taiwan, mentioned Philippe Leblanc, a Radio-Canada reporter based mostly in Taipei.

Taiwan’s nationwide fireplace company mentioned 9 individuals died within the quake.The native United Day by day Information reported three hikers died in rockslides in Taroko Nationwide Park and a van driver died in the identical space after boulders hit the car.

Collection of aftershocks

Some 70 employees who have been stranded at two rock quarries have been secure, based on the hearth company, however the roads to succeed in them had been broken by falling rocks. Six employees have been going to be airlifted on Thursday.

One other 1,011 individuals have been injured. Authorities additionally initially misplaced contact with 50 lodge workers in minibuses within the nationwide park after the quake downed telephone networks. Three of the staff managed to stroll to the lodge, whereas the others remained stranded.

The quake and aftershocks additionally precipitated 24 landslides and harm to roads, bridges and tunnels.

Hualien Mayor Hsu Chen-wei mentioned 48 residential buildings have been broken within the metropolis.

Taiwan’s air pressure mentioned six F-16 fighter jets had been barely broken at a significant base within the metropolis from which jets are sometimes scrambled to see off incursions by China’s air pressure, however the plane are anticipated to return to service very quickly.

Different Asian international locations really feel results

Most energy has been restored after the quake, electrical energy utility Taipower mentioned, with the island’s two nuclear energy stations unaffected.

Taiwan’s high-speed rail operator mentioned no harm or accidents have been reported on its trains, though companies can be delayed because it made inspections.

A significant provider of chips to Apple and Nvidia, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, mentioned it had evacuated some fabrication vegetation, including later that the staff had begun to return to work.

The official central information company mentioned the quake was the most important since one among magnitude 7.6 in 1999 that killed about 2,400 individuals and broken or destroyed 50,000 buildings.

Taiwan climate officers ranked Wednesday’s quake in Hualien as “Higher 6,” or the second-highest stage of depth on a scale starting from 1 to 7.

Such quakes collapse partitions except they’re manufactured from bolstered concrete blocks, whereas individuals can’t stand upright and should crawl in an effort to transfer, specialists say.

The quake set off a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines that was later lifted.

In Japan, the climate company mentioned a number of small tsunami waves reached elements of the southern prefecture of Okinawa, whereas downgrading its tsunami warning to an advisory.

Within the Philippines, seismology officers warned coastal residents in a number of provinces to maneuver to greater floor.

Chinese language state media mentioned the quake was felt within the southeastern province of Fujian, whereas a Reuters witness mentioned it was additionally felt within the industrial hub of Shanghai.

WATCH |  Quake introduced down buildings and precipitated landslides: 

Crews seek for Taiwan earthquake survivors

Rescue crews are looking for survivors in Taiwan after the island was hit with a 7.2 magnitude earthquake — probably the most highly effective to strike there in 25 years.

The South Carolina ladies’s basketball crew is 2 wins away from perfection.

Daybreak Staley’s Gamecocks are coming into their fourth consecutive Ultimate 4 having not misplaced a single recreation all season.

That is truly the second straight NCAA Event the place South Carolina carried an ideal file within the Ultimate 4. Final yr, the then-36-0 Gamecocks had been shocked by Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes within the nationwide semifinals.

Whereas South Carolina might nonetheless run into Clark and Co. once more, it will not be within the Ultimate 4. This time round, the 36-0 Gamecocks are up in opposition to No. 3 NC State, which is making simply its second Ultimate 4 look and first since 1998.

Earlier than the Gamecocks and Wolfpack sq. off, here is a have a look at the historical past South Carolina is closing in on:

What number of undefeated NCAA ladies’s basketball champions have there been?

There was an undefeated champion 9 occasions in ladies’s NCAA Event historical past. The uncommon feat has been completed by 4 completely different packages: Baylor, Tennessee, Texas and UConn.

The 1985-86 Longhorns had been the primary to drag it off.

When was the final undefeated NCAA ladies’s basketball champion?

UConn is the one program with a number of unblemished championship seasons. Geno Auriemma’s Huskies went unbeaten a staggering six occasions, with two coming in consecutive seasons.

This is a full have a look at every undefeated ladies’s champion:

Texas, 1985-86: 34-0

UConn, 1994-95: 35-0

Tennessee, 1997-98: 39-0

UConn, 2001-02: 39-0

UConn, 2008-09: 39-0

UConn, 2009-10: 39-0

Baylor, 2011-12: 40-0

UConn, 2013-14: 40-0

UConn, 2015-16: 38-0

What number of undefeated NCAA males’s basketball champions have there been?

There have been even fewer good championship seasons on the boys’s aspect. It has been performed a mixed seven occasions by 4 completely different packages: Indiana, North Carolina, San Francisco and UCLA.

San Francisco grew to become the primary undefeated males’s champ in 1955-56.

When was the final undefeated NCAA males’s basketball champion?

It has been practically 50 years for the reason that final unbeaten males’s champ, which was the 1975-76 Hoosiers. Gonzaga was on the point of ending the drought in 2020-21, however the Bulldogs fell to Baylor within the nationwide title recreation.

This is a full have a look at every time it has been performed:

San Francisco, 1955-56: 29-0

North Carolina, 1956-57: 32-0

UCLA, 1963-64: 30-0

UCLA, 1966-67: 30-0

UCLA, 1971-72: 30-0

UCLA, 1972-73: 30-0

Indiana, 1975-76: 32-0

There’s a lot on the road within the 2024 males’s Ultimate 4. UConn is seeking to go back-to-back as champions whereas the opposite groups are searching for their first win, or first win in over 4 a long time.

Joe Flaherty, the comic and author identified for his roles on exhibits like Freaks and Geeks and SCTV, has died. He was 82.

“After a quick sickness, he left us yesterday, and since then, I have been struggling to come back to phrases with this immense loss,” his daughter Gudrun Flaherty informed CBC Information on Tuesday, by way of SCTV producer and shut household good friend Andrew Alexander.

“I take solace within the reminiscences we shared and the unimaginable affect he had on these round him. His spirit, humour and love will likely be part of me eternally.”

An improvisation skilled with an iconic voice and reward for the visitor spot, Flaherty’s credit run the gamut from film blockbusters reminiscent of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy to TV staples reminiscent of Frasier, Freaks and Geeks and Household Man.  

However he was maybe greatest identified for a small position as a heckler within the Adam Sandler movie Comfortable Gilmore, and as a author and performer within the Canadian comedy sequence SCTV.

WATCH | Martin Brief calls Joe Flaherty ‘the anchor’ of SCTV: 

Martin Brief remembers Joe Flaherty as ‘the anchor’ of SCTV

Canadian comedy icon Martin Brief stated he relied closely on Joe Flaherty within the early days of working collectively on SCTV. ‘I labored with Joe for 50 years,’ Brief stated about Flaherty, who died at 82.

 

One of many present’s unique members, Flaherty stayed on for the present’s whole six-season as he labored alongside comedian legends reminiscent of John Sweet, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy and Martin Brief. And a minimum of in Brief’s opinion, his presence shepherded SCTV to the long-lasting standing it will definitely loved.

“Once I was on SCTV, we used to name him the anchor,” Brief stated in an interview with CBC Information. “In different phrases, he was the one who anchored the entire present.”

The 2 labored collectively each earlier than and after the sequence ended. Nevertheless it was on SCTV, Brief stated, the place Flaherty most instantly acted because the glue behind the scenes. 

“I relied on him desperately,” Brief stated. “I might be within the edit room modifying a chunk — I did not know what I used to be doing. And I would say ‘Joe, get in right here. Assist me!'”

Although he by no means attained fairly the identical blockbuster heights of a few of his castmates (or made the transfer over to U.S. competitor Saturday Night time Dwell as did a few of them), Flaherty’s was a well-known identify each in entrance of and behind the digital camera — particularly to fellow comedians. 

“Joe was at all times there within the background, pulling the strings, initiating issues, making issues occur. And I bought the good thing about it,” stated Dave Thomas, well-known as one half of SCTV’s Bob and Doug McKenzie duo.

“He was a pioneer and created a type of comedy that numerous comedians after us — like Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler and Conan O’Brien — credit score him for being a type of an innovator.”

Bigger than life

Thomas cited Flaherty’s use of darkish comedy “earlier than it was hip to be darkish,” and his writing: a larger-than-life expertise that earned him two Emmys and introduced him into the orbit of numerous different comedians. 

Alongside writing, directing and starring within the Levy-created Maniac Mansion from 1990 to 1993, Flaherty pulled the identical multi-hyphenate obligation on his comedy-anthology sequence Actually Bizarre Tales alongside O’Hara, Sweet and Brief.

With all that shared historical past, Thomas stated listening to about Flaherty’s dying by a brief textual content virtually did not appear actual.

“You are by no means actually ready once you get ‘Joe handed in the present day.’ Three phrases,” he stated. “And it is virtually like, not, that is not truthful — that each one the experiences, all of the laughs, all of the performances, all of the jokes, all of the exhibits may be condensed like that into three phrases. It is unhappy.”

WATCH | Flaherty on creating Actually Bizarre Tales: 

Joe Flaherty, post-SCTV, discusses Actually Bizarre Tales

The comic enlists former colleagues, together with Catherine O’Hara, for a brand new sequence he is producing. Aired July 9, 1986 on CBC’s Noon.

Flaherty regarded on his successes with humility. In accordance with The New York Occasions, he joked to an enormous crowd at SCTV‘s 2018 reunion that it was shocking anybody remembered them in any respect and that, earlier than the occasion, he “simply did not know if anyone would present up.”

However the group continued collaborating on and off, Flaherty stated, due to what they might do collectively.

“I would say the SCTV individuals carry to Hollywood a sure — I might say it is a capability to get probably the most out of a script … as nicely or higher than anyone else within the biz.” Flaherty informed CBC Information in 1986.

“It is merely a matter of realizing how… your half matches in with the remainder of the characters, after which methods to get probably the most out of it. That is the underside line, is to simply milk it for every part it is price.” 

After the present led to 1984, Flaherty went on to star in a number of different comedies, however established himself as a consummate performer with one other iconic position: Harold Weir within the comedy-drama Freaks and Geeks in 1999.

Although that sequence ran for only one season, like SCTV it went on to achieve cult standing and launch the careers of a technology of different comedians.  

‘So cool we thought he was Canadian’

Followers and former co-stars shared their condolences on X, quickly after information of his dying broke.

“Worshipped Joe rising up. At all times had me and my brother laughing,” wrote Sandler. “The nicest man you possibly can know. Genius of a comic. And a real sweetheart. Good combo.”

“I used to be so thrilled to have the ability to work with him,” stated actor Jennifer Tilly, who performed Flaherty’s daughter in 1997’s The Mistaken Man. “His efficiency was pitch good. An excellent comic. Gone too quickly.”

“Joe Flaherty, an American so cool we thought he was Canadian. Thanks, Floyd Robertson,” wrote Ontario comic Stewart Reynolds — referencing the long-lasting information reporter character Flaherty performed on SCTV.

Pittsburgh to Toronto

Flaherty earned his honorary Canadian standing from a long-running affiliation with the nation and a few of its most profitable sequence.

Born in Pittsburgh in 1941, Flaherty served with the U.S. air drive for 4 years earlier than becoming a member of Chicago improv group The Second Metropolis in 1969 — the place his time would overlap with future Saturday Night time Dwell star John Belushi and Ghostbusters actor and Groundhog Day director Harold Ramis.

He ultimately moved to Toronto, the place he would assist set up the Canadian arm of the troupe, paving the way in which for a profession that might be perpetually affiliated with Canada and Canadians. He would play Kirk Dirkwood on CTV’s David Steinberg Present, Mayor Andrews within the Canadian sitcom Name Me Fitz, and held a recurring position within the Vancouver-shot Robson Arms. He additionally made a visitor look on Royal Canadian Air Farce. 

He later grew to become a college member at Toronto’s Humber School, serving as an artist-in-residence and taking part within the school’s first comedy workshop in 1997. That workshop, stated writer and fellow teacher Andrew Clark, would later evolve into Humber’s present comedy program.

“Joe was a vital a part of that, as a result of he introduced different comedians of his stage, you recognize, in to satisfy with college students,” Clark stated, whereas reminiscing on how compassionate and dedicated Flaherty was with these college students, regardless of his legendary standing.

“I knew he was terrifically proficient. However that is after I realized that he had this entire different realm to him, which was as a type of mentor and an teacher,” he stated. “After which when it was over, I instantly went to a pay telephone and known as my dad and mom and stated, ‘Guess who I used to be simply in a room with?'” 

Flaherty was married to Judith Dagley for 22 years till the 2 divorced in 1996. The couple had two youngsters, Gudrun and Gabriel Flaherty.

I’m outraged and heartbroken by the deaths of seven humanitarian staff from World Central Kitchen, together with one American, in Gaza yesterday. They have been offering meals to hungry civilians in the course of a conflict. They have been courageous and selfless. Their deaths are a tragedy.

Israel has pledged to conduct a thorough investigation into why the help staff’ autos have been hit by airstrikes. That investigation have to be swift, it should convey accountability, and its findings have to be made public. 

Much more tragically, this isn’t a stand-alone incident. This battle has been one of many worst in current reminiscence when it comes to what number of support staff have been killed. It is a main purpose why distributing humanitarian support in Gaza has been so tough – as a result of Israel has not carried out sufficient to guard support staff making an attempt to ship desperately wanted assist to civilians. Incidents like yesterday’s merely mustn’t occur. Israel has additionally not carried out sufficient to guard civilians. The USA has repeatedly urged Israel to deconflict their navy operations towards Hamas with humanitarian operations, with the intention to keep away from civilian casualties. 

The USA will proceed to do all we are able to to ship humanitarian help to Palestinian civilians in Gaza, via all out there means. I’ll proceed to press Israel to do extra to facilitate that support. And we’re pushing arduous for a direct ceasefire as a part of a hostage deal. I’ve a group in Cairo engaged on this proper now.

Earlier immediately, I spoke with my buddy Chef José Andrés, the founding father of World Central Kitchen, to convey my deepest condolences for the deaths of these brave support staff and to precise my continued assist for his and his group’s relentless and heroic efforts to get meals to hungry individuals across the globe. 

Could God bless the humanitarian staff killed yesterday and luxury their households and family members of their grief.

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