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Ottawa 'clarifies' truckers are not exempt from COVID-19 vaccine mandate
OTTAWA - The government has issued an order-in-council clarifying that truckers are not exempt from a vaccine mandate after bureaucrats were confused by their own policy. The Canada Border Services Ag...
Feb 03, 2022
From heroes to targets: At an Ontario hospital, anti-vax protests weigh on staff
Nicole Corry says she didn't become a personal support worker to be called a hero. But she never anticipated that she would be villainized as she puts her health and family's welfare on the line to ca...
Feb 03, 2022
New blockade in Coutts cutting off traffic to U.S. border crossing
MILK RIVER, ALBERTA - RCMP say a second blockade on a highway leading to the main United States border crossing in Alberta has choked off traffic."Protesters have stopped traffic from going southbound...
Feb 03, 2022
M.D. of Greenview approves purchase of land for Greenview Industrial Gateway
The M.D. of Greenview has announced the purchase of 2,000 acres of land from the Alberta government, to be used for the Greenview Industrial Gateway (GIG). Located south of Grande Prairie, the GIG wil...
Feb 03, 2022
Ex-Chicago officer who killed Laquan McDonald leaves prison
CHICAGO (AP) - Former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke left prison on Thursday after serving less than half of his nearly seven-year sentence for killing Black teenager Laquan McDonald - an early...
Feb 03, 2022
Quebec court says justice minister's intervention on judge bilingualism illegal
MONTREAL - The Quebec Superior Court has ruled that the province's justice minister does not get to decide whether judges can be required to speak English as well as French. The case was centred aroun...
Feb 03, 2022
New blockade in Alberta cutting off traffic to U.S. border crossing
MILK RIVER, ALBERTA - RCMP say a second blockade on a highway leading to the main United States border crossing in Alberta has choked off traffic. "Protesters have stopped traffic from going southboun...
Feb 03, 2022
Bayern Munich says Davies is fine but "bored" as he recovers from myocarditis
Bayern Munich manager Julian Nagelsmann says Canadian star Alphonso Davies is fine but bored as he recovers from myocarditis following a bout with COVID-19. Bayern said Jan. 5 that the 21-year-old fro...
Feb 03, 2022
Canadian military cuts dozens of unvaccinated troops, puts hundreds more on notice
OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence says dozens of Canadian Armed Forces members who refused to get vaccinated have now been kicked out of the military. Release proceedings have started for hu...
Feb 03, 2022
Police in England say young Vernon, B.C., woman murdered in Essex, man in custody
Police in Essex, England, say a 19-year-old British Columbia woman has been murdered and a man is under arrest. A statement from Essex Police says 19-year-old Ashley Wadsworth of Vernon died Tuesday, ...
Feb 03, 2022