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Some overloaded Quebec health-care facilities forced to cancel staff vacations
MONTREAL - Several Quebec health authorities are being forced to cancel employee vacations as the province struggles with staff shortages and rising COVID-19 hospitalizations, and some workers fear th...
Jan 05, 2022
City looking for input on snow and street sweeping programs
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Could the City of Lethbridge's street clearing initiatives use some work? Now is your time to let them know.Until February 13, the municipal government is looking for feedback on snow...
Jan 05, 2022
Lethbridge Chamber CEO enters the new Year focussed on the 'positives'
LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- As we enter the first few days of 2022 and we're confronted by another wave of COVID illnesses, the CEO of the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce is open about the challenges of the pas...
Jan 05, 2022
Christmas Hope campaign benefits over 7,500 people in need this holiday season
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Christmas Hope campaign in southern Alberta proved to be a success this holiday season.The initiative is a partnership between the Interfaith Food Bank, Lethbridge Food Bank, MyCi...
Jan 05, 2022
Veteran sports journalist Machabée joins Canadiens as communications VP
MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens announced Wednesday that veteran sports journalist Chantal Machabe is the team's new vice president, communications. Machabe, a native of Laval, Que., has spent the l...
Jan 05, 2022
Trudeau and Tam to hold first federal update on COVID-19 of the new year
Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam will join Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this morning for the first federal COVID-19 update of the new year. The update follows Trudeau's phone call yesterda...
Jan 05, 2022
Undisclosed number dead in large Philadelphia house fire
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A large house fire in Philadelphia early Wednesday killed 13 people, including seven children, and sent two people to hospitals, fire officials said. Officials said at a news confe...
Jan 05, 2022
Canada's Alphonso Davies latest Bayern player to test positive for COVID-19
MUNICH - Bayern Munich says Canadian star Alphonso Davies has joined the list of players to test positive for COVID-19. The Bundesliga club says the 21-year-old fullback from Edmonton is well and self...
Jan 05, 2022
Canada's Stephanie Labbé one of three finalists for FIFA goalkeeping award
Canadian Stephanie Labb is one of three finalists for The Best FIFA Women's Goalkeeper. The 35-year-old from Stony Plain, Alta., is up against Germany's Ann-Katrin Berger (Chelsea) and Chile's Christi...
Jan 05, 2022
NDP presents plan to make schools safer amid rapid Omicron spread
EDMONTON, AB - Alberta's Opposition NDP is calling on the province to provide better COVID-19 supports for students when they return to class.NDP education critic Sarah Hoffman says Premier Jason Kenn...
Jan 05, 2022