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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 9, 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 9, 2021

Alberta pastor charged after Sunday church services violated COVID-19 rules
EDMONTON, AB - The pastor of an Edmonton-area church that had been holding Sunday services with as many as 300 people has been charged with violating COVID-19 health rules.RCMP say James Coates of Gra...
Feb 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2021

World economy will lose trillions if poor countries shorted on vaccines: OECD
OTTAWA - As the Trudeau government is forced to explain delays rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, some of the world's economic and health leaders are warning of catastrophic financial consequences if poor...
Feb 9, 2021

Parliamentary committee poised to investigate allegations against ex-defence chief
OTTAWA - A parliamentary committee is expected to launch formal hearings today into allegations of inappropriate conduct by former defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance - and what the Liberal government k...
Feb 9, 2021

Remorse a factor in no hate speech charges after shooting of Colten Boushie: document
REGINA - A newly released document shows prosecutors in Saskatchewan weighed backlash and remorse felt by people accused of posting hateful online messages after the high-profile shooting death of a y...
Feb 9, 2021

Reclaiming 'renewal': Society pitches new life for historic Black Vancouver area
VANCOUVER - When Randy Clark wants to return to the home where he spent his formative years from 12 to 16, it means gazing at a viaduct that many credit with the destruction of Vancouver's historic Bl...
Feb 9, 2021