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Canada should consider hosting 2022 Winter Olympics, says Green Leader Annamie Paul
OTTAWA - Green Leader Annamie Paul says Canada should support moving the 2022 Olympics outside China, citing Beijing's "genocidal campaign" against the Uighur Muslim minority. Paul says the Internatio...
Feb 09, 2021

Canada should consider hosting 2022 Winter Olympics, says Green Leader Annamie Paul
OTTAWA - Green Leader Annamie Paul says Canada should support moving the 2022 Olympics outside China, citing Beijing's "genocidal campaign" against the Uighur Muslim minority. Paul says the Internatio...
Feb 09, 2021

Training personal support workers to cost $38.5 million over two years: PBO
OTTAWA - Parliament's budget watchdog estimates that training 4,000 new personal support workers across the country will cost $38.5 million over two years. A costing note from the parliamentary budget...
Feb 09, 2021

Super Bowl on CBS draws audience of 96.4 million viewers
NEW YORK - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' rout of the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl drew a total audience of 96.4 million viewers. CBS said Tuesday the audience included record digital numbers for a...
Feb 09, 2021

Paris Hilton says she was abused as teen at Utah school
SALT LAKE CITY - Paris Hilton testified about abuse she says she suffered years ago at a boarding school in Utah, as she lobbied Monday for a bill seeking to regulate the state's troubled teen industr...
Feb 09, 2021

School bus cancellations for Tuesday, February 9
A lot of school buses in the Grande Prairie and Peace Country areas are not running Tuesday, February 9.The Peace Wapiti Public School Division's website says all buses that serve the school division ...
Feb 09, 2021

Pet owners being reminded to keep a close eye on animals during cold snap
As a polar vortex continues to grip the Canadian prairies, pet owners are being reminded to keep a close eye on their animals during these cold conditions.With temperatures in the minus forties this w...
Feb 09, 2021

Highlights from Monday's City Council meeting
Update on Nauticol Methanol PlantCouncil has asked representatives from Nauticol Energy to meet with the city at a future Infrastructure and Economic Development Committee meeting. Nauticol has writte...
Feb 09, 2021

WHO says coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab
WUHAN, China - A World Health Organization expert said Tuesday the coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and most probably jumped to humans via an intermediary species. WHO food sa...
Feb 09, 2021

Vaccines for poor countries and split over Trump impeachment: In The News for Feb. 9
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 9 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Feb 09, 2021