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Leaders' election promises on child care, gas prices, vague on details today
TORONTO - The leaders of two of Ontario’s main political parties trumpeted major campaign promises Wednesday - lower gas prices and subsidized child care - that they said would make life more af...
May 16, 2018
Emergency declared in Cape Breton as snowstorm leaves much of Nova Scotia paralyzed
HALIFAX - A local state of emergency remained in effect in parts of Cape Breton on Monday morning, as Nova Scotia dug out from one of the heaviest snowfalls in 20 years. On Sunday afternoon, as a stal...
Feb 05, 2024
Weekly epi report confirms 394 new cases of COVID-19 in the province, higher than previous week
During the week of June 5 to June 11, 394 new cases were confirmed in Saskatchewan according to the Ministry of Health's weekly COVID-19 integrated epidemiology (epi).This reflects 24 laboratory-confi...
Jun 16, 2022
High-speed internet to bring big change in remote Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Jeff Kowunna used his drone to record this year’s celebration of another successful bowhead whaling harvest for one of the oldest Alaska Native settlements. The video from th...
Dec 21, 2017
Turris believes Sens owner Eugene Melnyk is the reason he's no longer in Ottawa
VANCOUVER - Kyle Turris believes Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk is the reason he’s no longer in the nation’s capital. Speaking before Nashville’s 7-1 victory over the Vancouver ...
Dec 13, 2017
'Where he belongs:' Bronze tribute to Calgary's wandering turkey in the works
CALGARY - Efforts have begun to immortalize the late Turk Diggler, a wild turkey whose jaunts through several Calgary neighbourhoods delighted many as the COVID-19 pandemic's first wave upended normal...
Dec 08, 2020
Tory critic dismisses Chinese pandemic 'excuse' barring access to two Michaels
OTTAWA - China can no longer credibly use the "excuse" of COVID-19 to continue keeping Canadian diplomats from visiting Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, the Conservative foreign affairs cr...
Oct 11, 2020
B.C. court hears differing diagnoses on prescription to cure medicare ills
VANCOUVER - Advocates on both sides of a legal debate over the future of public health care in Canada are offering opposing diagnoses on how to rejuvenate what many consider an overburdened medical sy...
Sep 12, 2016
Free website for medical students a prescription for augmented digital learning
TORONTO - There’s no question medical students have to cram in a lot of information on their way to becoming full-fledged doctors, and a new Canadian teaching website aims to make that journey a...
Sep 21, 2016
Chinese-controlled firm loses court bid to pause Ottawa's divestment order
OTTAWA - State-owned China Mobile has lost a court bid for a temporary hold on Ottawa's order that its Canadian affiliate be divested or wound up over national security concerns. In a ruling made publ...
Dec 08, 2021