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Ottawa police deploy 'surge' in bid to control, end 'increasingly volatile' protest
Ottawa police are deploying a "surge" of about 150 extra police officers to central areas of the city paralyzed by the protest against COVID-19 mandates that has been going on for days. Police Chief P...
Feb 04, 2022
Employment in Saskatchewan rose in January: Statistics Canada
Saskatchewan added 3,900 jobs in January, according to data released Friday by Statistics Canada.The unemployment rate in the province was 5.5 per cent, the same as it was in December. The only provin...
Feb 04, 2022
RCMP Report Pt. 2: Ongoing investigations and assault arrest in Battleford area
During a vehicle check on Jan. 27, Battlefords RCMP arrested two people and seized drugs and bear mace.Members executing the check on Battleford Road early that morning ended up pursuing the male driv...
Feb 04, 2022
Quebec cuts funding to English college in favour of French schools ahead of election
MONTREAL - Squeezed for space, Montreal's Dawson College has for years been planning an expansion of its medical technology department that would include a clinic to serve the community and train its ...
Feb 04, 2022
COVID falling in 49 of 50 states as deaths near 900,000
With the brutal omicron wave rapidly loosening its grip, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. are falling in 49 of 50 states, even as the nation's death toll closes in on another bleak round number: 900,...
Feb 04, 2022
Police: Arrest in altercation that badly injured 49ers fan
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A suspect was arrested in an altercation that badly injured a San Francisco 49ers fan in a parking lot outside SoFi Stadium during last weekend's NFC championship game between the 4...
Feb 04, 2022
Police: Arrest in altercation that badly injured 49ers fan
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A suspect was arrested in an altercation that badly injured a San Francisco 49ers fan in a parking lot outside SoFi Stadium during last weekend's NFC championship game between the 4...
Feb 04, 2022
Ex-Montreal Canadien Chris Nilan says he lost radio job over vaccine refusal
MONTREAL - Former Montreal Canadiens forward turned radio host Chris Nilan says he was fired from TSN 690, a Montreal sports radio station, after he refused to take a COVID-19 vaccine. In a letter pos...
Feb 04, 2022
Minnesota AG to join investigation into Amir Locke shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will join the review of the fatal shooting of a Black man by Minneapolis police, authorities said Friday, shortly after police released body...
Feb 04, 2022
Sask. ICE Unit arrest 14-year-old boy from North Battleford
The Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation Unit have arrested and charged a 14-year-old boy from North Battleford with child pornography offences after an investigation.The ICE Unit arrested the you...
Feb 04, 2022