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Training personal support workers to cost $38.5 million over two years: PBO
OTTAWA - Parliament's budget watchdog estimates that training 4,000 new personal support workers across the country will cost $38.5 million over two years. A costing note from the parliamentary budget...
Feb 09, 2021

Invasive Canada geese in the crosshairs as B.C. council approves planned cull
VERNON, B.C. - A program to cull invasive, non-migratory Canada geese in British Columbia's North Okanagan has the strong support of Vernon city council. Councillors have voted 6-1 in favour of the pr...
Feb 09, 2021

Super Bowl on CBS draws audience of 96.4 million viewers
NEW YORK - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' rout of the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl drew a total audience of 96.4 million viewers. CBS said Tuesday the audience included record digital numbers for a...
Feb 09, 2021

Paris Hilton says she was abused as teen at Utah school
SALT LAKE CITY - Paris Hilton testified about abuse she says she suffered years ago at a boarding school in Utah, as she lobbied Monday for a bill seeking to regulate the state's troubled teen industr...
Feb 09, 2021

ROTHENBURGER: We should vaccinate for one Olympics and boycott the other
KAMLOOPS - HERE'S A TALE of two Olympics.If all goes well, Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Games later this year. Not far away, Beijing is preparing for the 2022 Winter Games.As Canada makes plans for...
Feb 09, 2021

WHO says coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab
WUHAN, China - A World Health Organization expert said Tuesday the coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and most probably jumped to humans via an intermediary species. WHO food sa...
Feb 09, 2021

Vaccines for poor countries and split over Trump impeachment: In The News for Feb. 9
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 9 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Feb 09, 2021

World economy will lose trillions if poor countries shorted on vaccines: OECD
OTTAWA - As the Trudeau government is forced to explain delays rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, some of the world's economic and health leaders are warning of catastrophic financial consequences if poor...
Feb 09, 2021

Parliamentary committee poised to investigate allegations against ex-defence chief
OTTAWA - A parliamentary committee is expected to launch formal hearings today into allegations of inappropriate conduct by former defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance - and what the Liberal government k...
Feb 09, 2021

Remorse a factor in no hate speech charges after shooting of Colten Boushie: document
REGINA - A newly released document shows prosecutors in Saskatchewan weighed backlash and remorse felt by people accused of posting hateful online messages after the high-profile shooting death of a y...
Feb 09, 2021

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