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Family of Jody Smith-Hockett continues to seek answers - 12 years after disappearance
The family of a woman who went missing from Grande Prairie is still holding out hope they will get answers and closure into her disappearance - 12 years ago.Jody Hockett, who also went by the names 'J...
Feb 22, 2021
Canada missed chance to help homegrown vaccines move quickly last spring: developers
OTTAWA - Two vaccine developers in Canada say a lack of federal funding early in the pandemic kept homegrown vaccines from moving as quickly as international versions. John Lewis, the CEO of Entos Pha...
Feb 22, 2021
UN human rights body opens session as Myanmar concerns loom
GENEVA - The U.N.'s top human rights body has opened its first and highest-level meeting of 2021, amid growing concerns on issues including the military coup in Myanmar, the arrest of Russian oppositi...
Feb 22, 2021
Italian ambassador among 3 killed in attack on Congo convoy
KINSHASA, Congo - The Italian ambassador to Congo, an Italian carabineri police officer and their Congolese driver were killed Monday when gunmen attacked a U.N. convoy going to visit a school in east...
Feb 22, 2021
'Trojan Horse;' Alberta to argue in court federal assessment law unconstitutional
Alberta is in court fighting against Ottawa's law on environmental assessment.Arguments in Alberta's Court of Appeal are expected to last all week.The Alberta government calls the Impact Assessment Ac...
Feb 22, 2021
'Trojan Horse:' Alberta to argue in court federal assessment law unconstitutional
Alberta is in court fighting against Ottawa's law on environmental assessment. Arguments in Alberta's Court of Appeal are expected to last all week. The Alberta government calls the Impact Assessment ...
Feb 22, 2021
Critics ask why no details on Alberta government plan for parks management
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has yet to release details on how it will "optimize" the province's parks by getting other people to run them. It's been almost a year since the plan was revealed in ...
Feb 22, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Monday, Feb. 22, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 11 a.m. Quebec is reporting 805 new cases of COVID-19 today and 11 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, including tw...
Feb 22, 2021
Conservatives urge Liberals to support Uighur genocide motion amid China's denials
OTTAWA - The Conservatives are calling on Liberal MPs to support the party's motion to have Parliament declare a genocide against ethnic Muslim Uighurs in its Xinjiang province. Conservative MPs Micha...
Feb 22, 2021
In 'Minari,' harvesting an American dream
NEW YORK - The riverbed, more than anything else, needed to be exactly right. In Lee Isaac Chung's Arkansas-set family drama, "Minari," land is something more than a setting. It's a future. It's a dre...
Feb 22, 2021