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Communities grapple with what to do with former residential and day schools
The national spotlight on residential schools is also highlighting a difficult question facing some communities over what to do with the buildings that have been left behind. British Columbia's Okanag...
Jun 14, 2021

Ontario accelerates return-to-play plans for professional, elite-amateur sports
TORONTO - Top tier athletes in Ontario can expect to be back in action by the end of the summer. Ontario said it has accelerated its return-to-play plan for professional and elite amateur leagues as t...
Jun 14, 2021

Canadian business leaders demand plan to reopen borders, economy now
OTTAWA - Business leaders are calling on Ottawa to immediately lay out a comprehensive plan to reopen the economy and international borders along with a vaccine certification process. At a news confer...
Jun 14, 2021

Restrictions on travel, social gatherings and leisure activities ease
NANAIMO - B.C. is shifting into the second phase of its COVID-19 restart plan.Effective Tuesday, June 15, indoor, organized gatherings of up to 50 people are permitted with an appropriate COVID-19 saf...
Jun 14, 2021

Canada's vaccine donations to COVAX to come only from its COVAX supply: Gould
OTTAWA - International Development Minister Karina Gould confirms none of the 13 million doses Canada is currently promising to donate to COVAX will come from supplies procured directly from vaccine m...
Jun 14, 2021

Federal government appoints former Skeetchestn Chief Ron Ignace as commissioner of Indigenous languages
SKEETCHESTN - The former chief of Skeetchestn Indian Band has been named Canada's Commissioner of Indigenous Languages.Ron Ignace, who served as Skeetchestn chief for 32 of the past 38 years, was appo...
Jun 14, 2021

Health officer says risk to others low: Two cases of COVID-19 at Iqaluit school
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's chief public health officer says two COVID-19 cases at Iqaluit's middle school came from household transmission and the risk to other students is low. With an outbreak ong...
Jun 14, 2021

Elderly man dies after Horse Lake-area crash
100 MILE HOUSE, B.C. - An elderly man involved in a single-vehicle collision near the intersection of Horse Lake Road at McMillan Road passed away Friday (June 11) afternoon.According to RCMP, witness...
Jun 14, 2021

Canadian Michael Woods to lead Israel Start-Up Nation team at the Tour de France
Canadian rider Michael Woods will lead the Israel Start-Up Nation team at the Tour de France. "His success in the (Ardennes) Classics, the Tour de Romandie and the Tour de Suisse gave him - and us - t...
Jun 14, 2021

Woman seriously injured in traffic stop in British Columbia: police watchdog
CASTLEGAR, B.C. - British Columbia's police watchdog says a woman suffered potentially life-threatening injuries after she was pulled over in a traffic stop in Castlegar on Saturday. The Independent I...
Jun 14, 2021

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