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Boosters snapped up in Ontario, new COVID restrictions in effect in some provinces
Adults in Ontario looking to book a COVID-19 vaccine booster may have to wait more than a week for an appointment as many health regions say bookings were snapped up this morning. The province has exp...
Dec 20, 2021
Church agency: Captive missionaries made daring escape
Captive missionaries in Haiti found freedom last week by making a daring overnight escape, eluding their kidnappers and walking for miles over difficult, moonlit terrain with an infant and other child...
Dec 20, 2021
Hockey Canada withdraws from Spengler Cup due to COVID-19 concerns
CALGARY - Hockey Canada has withdrawn its team from the Spengler Cup. Canada often competes in the European club-based tournament based in Davos, Switzerland, sending a squad of Canadians selected off...
Dec 20, 2021
Prosecutor: Minnesota cop negligent in Daunte Wright's death
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A prosecutor told jurors on Monday that the suburban Minneapolis police officer who says she meant to use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot and killed Black motorist Daunte...
Dec 20, 2021
Coquihalla Highway set to reopen to essential traffic today
KAMLOOPS - The Coquihalla Highway will reopen to commercial trucks and intercity buses today. The highway was closed November 14 between Merritt and Hope as a series of major rain storms moved across ...
Dec 20, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Sorry, but whining travellers don’t deserve much sympathy
IT'S HARD TO SYMPATHIZE with all the complaining travellers who seem to think the pandemic is the government's fault.Every day, it seems, there's somebody on the news who got stuck in a foreign countr...
Dec 20, 2021
Israel to ban travel to US, Canada over omicron variant
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli ministers on Monday agreed to ban travel to the United States, Canada and eight other countries amid the rapid, global spread of the omicron variant. Prime Minister Naftali Be...
Dec 20, 2021
Commons Speaker reflects on dispute over secret documents on scientists' firing
OTTAWA - Anthony Rota didn't relish being the first Speaker in more than a century to publicly rebuke a veteran civil servant for doing what he believed was his legally required duty. But as Speaker o...
Dec 20, 2021
Public health measures resume in Quebec today to curb the rise of COVID-19 cases
MONTREAL - Quebec is tightening public health measures again today as COVID-19 cases spike across the province. Premier Franois Legault announced tougher measures last week to combat the Omicron varia...
Dec 20, 2021
More restrictions, more boosters in provinces today as Omicron threat looms
Canada's battle to contain the Omicron variant continues on multiple fronts today, with three provinces reintroducing public health restrictions and a fourth expanding eligibility for COVID-19 vaccine...
Dec 20, 2021
