July 8 In 1912, American Jim Thorpe replied, “Thanks, King,” when told by Swedish King Gustav at the Olympic Games in Stockholm that he was the greatest athlete in the world. Thorpe won both the pentathlon and decathlon at the Games. But he was stripped of his medals the next year after it was learned he had played pro baseball. In 2005, former First Nations leader David Ahenakew was convicted and fined for promoting hatred against Jews. Days later he was stripped of his Order of Canada. In February 2009, the judge at his second trial found him not guilty of wilfully promoting hatred against Jews but chided him for the controversial comments. He died March 12, 2010, after a long battle with cancer. In 2021, the Assembly of First…
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