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Closed six weeks: Yellowknife schools to reopen Monday as COVID-19 cases decline
YELLOWKNIFE - Schools in Yellowknife and surrounding areas are to reopen Monday after a six-week closure during a widespread outbreak of COVID-19 in the Northwest Territories. Cases have declined in t...
Oct 20, 2021
Health-care workers demand Trudeau fast track paid sick-leave policy
OTTAWA - A coalition of front-line health-care workers has asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to fast-track proposed legislative amendments to grant paid sick leave to federally regulated workers. Tr...
Oct 20, 2021
More needed to prevent deaths from climate-change driven heat waves, fires: report
OTTAWA - A new report examining the health impacts of climate change says more Canadians than ever are facing serious health risks from heat waves and wildfires, prompting warnings from doctors that w...
Oct 20, 2021
Trudeau urged to make decriminalization of illicit drugs a priority
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being urged to decriminalize the possession and use of illicit drugs as a way to combat the opioid crisis that has resulted in thousands of deaths in Canada. ...
Oct 20, 2021
Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer cries as he presents COVID-19 modelling
REGINA - Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer cried Wednesday during a teleconference on COVID-19 modelling in the province. Dr. Saqib Shahab said it's upsetting to see what is happening in Sas...
Oct 20, 2021
Pedestrians need to be seen to be safe
NANAIMO - With days getting shorter and more rain across the region, local organizations are putting a renewed focus on pedestrian safety.The City of Nanaimo, RCMP and ICBC teamed up at the intersecti...
Oct 20, 2021
West Kelowna RCMP recovers $30,000 in suspected stolen property
A man and woman are facing numerous charges after the West Kelowna RCMP Community Safety Unit recovered over $30,000 in suspected stolen merchandise.Between October 17 and 18, 2021 the Kelowna RCMP Co...
Oct 20, 2021
Annual inflation rate hits 4.4 per cent in September, Statistics Canada says
OTTAWA - The cost to put food on the table and gasoline in the car pushed up the cost of living in September, lifting the annual pace of price increases to a near two-decade high with no clear end in ...
Oct 20, 2021
Land acknowledgment by Habs may be a mistake: Quebec Indigenous affairs minister
MONTREAL - Quebec Indigenous Affairs Minister Ian Lafrenire says a Montreal Canadiens' land acknowledgment that refers to unceded territory of the Mohawk Nation may be a mistake. The statement, which ...
Oct 20, 2021
Land acknowledgment by Habs may be a mistake: Quebec Indigenous affairs minister
MONTREAL - Quebec Indigenous Affairs Minister Ian Lafrenire says a Montreal Canadiens' land acknowledgment that refers to unceded territory of the Mohawk Nation may be a mistake. The statement, which ...
Oct 20, 2021
