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General who wrote reference for sex offender reassigned after outrage over new post
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces has removed a senior officer who wrote a reference for a convicted sex offender from his job reviewing ways to eliminate military sexual misconduct. Vice chief of th...
Oct 06, 2021
LPS K9 Officer taking on 24-hour pullup challenge for mental health awareness
LETHBRIDGE, AB - A local K9 officer will be doing as many pullups he can in 24 hours to raise awareness and money for First Responders' mental health. Lethbridge Police Service K9 Officer Terry Fiegut...
Oct 06, 2021
Nobel Prize in chemistry honors tool to build molecules
STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David W.C. MacMillan of Princeton University. ...
Oct 06, 2021
Emergency health-care summit, NDP postelection priorities : In The News for Oct. 6
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 Oct. 6 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Oct 06, 2021
Seniors advocate to release review of COVID-19 outbreaks at B.C. care facilities
VICTORIA - British Columbia's seniors advocate is set to release a review of COVID-19 outbreaks in the province's care facilities. Isobel Mackenzie said last spring the review will examine more than t...
Oct 06, 2021
NDP says errors meant people — including First Nations — were disenfranchised
OTTAWA - The NDP has requested an official inquiry into what it calls "numerous and systemic failures of election officials" in last month's federal election. NDP national director Anne McGrath has wr...
Oct 06, 2021
RCMP officer who shot, killed Nunavut man continues testifying at inquest
GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut - The RCMP officer who shot and killed an armed man in a remote Nunavut community is scheduled to continue his testimony today at a coroner's inquest. Cpl. Ian Crowe fired at 21-ye...
Oct 06, 2021
Trudeau expected to announce all federal workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will make good today on his election promise to require all federal employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Trudeau is expected to announce at a news ...
Oct 06, 2021
Singh to tell caucus that Indigenous rights a priority for NDP this Parliament
OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh is to tell the first meeting of the NDP caucus that pursuing Indigenous rights - including access to clean drinking water - will be a key priority for the party in this Parliame...
Oct 06, 2021
Emergency summit grapples with health system debilitated by COVID-19
OTTAWA - More than 30 national and provincial health organizations are trying to decide which of the devastating effects COVID-19 has taken on Canadian health care to tackle first, as they work to ste...
Oct 06, 2021