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Canada scrambling for smaller syringes ahead of expected Pfizer vaccine label change
OTTAWA - Canada's procurement department is scrambling to source smaller syringes for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, anticipating that Health Canada will agree to change the label to say each vial ...
Jan 27, 2021
B.C. records 407 new COVID-19 cases, 14 more deaths
KAMLOOPS - B.C. is reporting 407 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday (Jan. 26), including 54 within Interior Health. The figures are contained in a prepared update from Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie ...
Jan 26, 2021
Construction on new Parkcrest Elementary to begin next spring; opening planned for 2024
KAMLOOPS - The province's Ministry of Education has released details on the plans for a rebuilt Parkcrest Elementary School.Parkcrest Elementary was destroyed by fire in the fall of 2019.According to ...
Jan 25, 2021
'It wasn't called COVID at the time:' One year since Canada's first COVID-19 case
TORONTO - The patient, when he came into the hospital ER with what seemed to be mild pneumonia, wasn't that sick and might otherwise have been sent home. Except the man had just returned from China, w...
Jan 24, 2021
Couple charged after travelling to Yukon to get COVID-19 vaccine
WHITEHORSE - A cabinet minister says a couple from outside Yukon travelled to a remote community in the territory this week and received doses of COVID-19 vaccine.Community Services Minister John Stre...
Jan 22, 2021
B.C. announces plan for mass vaccination campaign starting in April
VICTORIA - British Columbia's oldest residents will be able to pre-register for COVID-19 vaccinations starting in March after the most vulnerable groups have been immunized under a provincial plan ann...
Jan 22, 2021
Hank Aaron, baseball's one-time home run king, dies at 86
ATLANTA - Hank Aaron, who endured racist threats with stoic dignity during his pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record and gracefully left his mark as one of baseball's greatest all-around players, die...
Jan 22, 2021
Trudeau, Biden to talk today as death of Keystone XL reverberates in Canada
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will speak with U.S. President Joe Biden today amid continuing fallout from the death of the Keystone XL pipeline project. The phone call, Biden's first with...
Jan 22, 2021
Province reports 564 new COVID-19 cases, warns of community cluster in Williams Lake
VICTORIA - A community cluster of COVID-19 cases in and around Williams Lake has drawn the attention of Public Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry. In her written statement Thursday (Jan. 21), Henry notes...
Jan 21, 2021
Canadian Press NewsAlert: Gov. Gen. Julie Payette resigns
OTTAWA - Gov. Gen. Julie Payette is resigning. The news comes as the results of an investigation into allegations of a toxic workplace environment at Rideau Hall are expected to be released. The Privy...
Jan 21, 2021
