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As parents celebrate lower child-care fees, will provinces keep up with demand?
OTTAWA - Nour Alideeb and her partner are trying to decide what to do with the hundreds of dollars they're now saving on child care for their two-year-old son. Parents are seeing their child-care fees...
Dave Barry Jan 05, 2023

UPDATE: Missing man found
ENDERBY, B.C. - Vernon-North Okanagan RCMP say the man reported missing last week has been found and is safe.
Dave Barry Jan 04, 2023 Image Credit: CFJC Today

Holiday travel mess shows why Canadian air travel industry needs competition: NDP
OTTAWA - New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says the holiday travel woes that left thousands of passengers stranded at airports or struggling to find flights home show why there should be more competit...
James Peters Jan 04, 2023

Private funeral in Barrie, Ont. today for slain OPP officer
BARRIE, Ont. - A private funeral is set to be held this morning for an Ontario Provincial Police officer who was shot dead in an ambush attack last week. The OPP says the service for 28-year-old Const...
Dave Barry Jan 04, 2023

One dead in two-vehicle crash near Jade Mountain Tuesday
CHASE, B.C. - UPDATE (4:35 p.m.): Drive BC says the road has re-opened to single-lane, alternating traffic.EARLIER: One person has died in a crash east of Chase Tuesday afternoon (Jan. 3).Cst. Mike Mo...
Dave Barry Jan 03, 2023

Ransomware group LockBit apologizes saying 'partner' was behind SickKids attack
TORONTO - A global ransomware operator issued an apology and offered to unlock the data targeted in a ransomware attack on Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, a move cybersecurity experts say is rar...
Dave Barry Jan 02, 2023

Canada extends copyright protection another 20 years to meet new trade obligation
OTTAWA - There will be no new books or plays added to the public domain in Canada until 2043 after the government squeezed in a change to copyright laws just before the end of 2022. Until Dec. 30, cop...
Dave Barry Jan 02, 2023

'Big year' for pharmacists with new prescriptive powers, drug shortages: association
VANCOUVER - In a year when pharmacists have stickhandled children's drug shortages and an extra-busy flu shot season, you'd think they might balk at the news in Ontario and B.C. that their prescriptiv...
Dave Barry Jan 02, 2023

Premiers' New Year's messages talk economic improvement, health care, cost of living
VANCOUVER - Premiers across the country used their New Year's messages to emphasize everything from housing and affordability to healthy lifestyles. In his first New Year's message as premier of Briti...
Dave Barry Jan 01, 2023

Canada's COVID-19 travel restrictions for China a 'political move,' says expert
An expert says Canada's requirement of a negative COVID-19 test of travellers from China will not help in preventing new variants or the spread of the virus. Kerry Bowman, assistant professor at the U...
Dave Barry Jan 01, 2023

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