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Halifax volunteers latest group to erect tiny shelters for homeless living in tents
HALIFAX - A group of Halifax volunteers have become the latest Canadians to begin erecting tiny shelters for the homeless, with two wooden structures going up recently in a gentrifying section of the ...
Jan 25, 2021
New social media campaign targets COVID-19 misinformation with science
EDMONTON - A group of Canadian scientists and health experts is starting a campaign to debunk misinformation about COVID-19.The scientists involved are using the hashtag #ScienceUpFirst to provide inf...
Jan 25, 2021
Stakeholders, political opponents question delay in releasing B.C. care home report
VANCOUVER - British Columbia plans to release a report on COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care homes today, but stakeholders consulted and the Opposition Liberals are questioning why the document wasn...
Jan 25, 2021
Online sexual exploitation reports have increased during COVID-19 pandemic: RCMP
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say reports of child sexual exploitation have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Canada, and is encouraging parents to take an active role in ensuring their children are ...
Jan 25, 2021
Italian premier to offer resignation as government wobbles
ROME - Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte will formally tell his wobbly coalition government on Tuesday that he intends to offer his resignation, his office said Monday. Conte survived two confidence vote...
Jan 25, 2021
B.C. now has three cases of South African COVID-19 variant, six of U.K. strain
VANCOUVER - Two more cases of the COVID-19 strain first identified in South Africa have been diagnosed in British Columbia, bringing the total to three. The latest situation report posted Friday by th...
Jan 25, 2021
Suspected RCMP secrecy breach fallout upgraded to 'severe': newly released documents
OTTAWA - New documents show Canada's cyberspy agency was so alarmed by the potential fallout from an alleged secrecy breach by a senior RCMP employee that it revised a damage assessment to "severe" fr...
Jan 25, 2021
Freeland hints at potential hotel quarantines for returning travellers
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the federal government is "looking seriously" at tougher travel measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, including mandatory hotel quarantines for...
Jan 25, 2021
Colts promote quarterbacks coach to offensive co-ordinator
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indianapolis Colts made it official Monday: quarterbacks coach and former CFLer Marcus Brady has been promoted to offensive co-ordinator. He will become the NFL's third Black offens...
Jan 25, 2021
GINTA: Please slow down; it's the least we can all do for safety
YOU'D THINK WE'VE HEARD IT ENOUGH to not see it happen again. Speeding in school zones, that is. Going over 30km/h in a school zone can have awful consequences. Like I said in a previous column on the...
Jan 25, 2021
