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Canada aims to keep COVID-19 vaccine waste below five per cent: PHAC
OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada says it hopes to keep the number of wasted doses of COVID-19 vaccines in Canada under five per cent. That would amount to 3.7 million of the 73.7 million va...
Nov 22, 2021
New Parliament opens looking a lot like the old one, facing same issues
OTTAWA - Members of Parliament return to the House of Commons today for the first time in five months.It's a new Parliament that looks almost identical to the old one, after an election Sept. 20 that ...
Nov 22, 2021
SUV driver in parade crash may have been fleeing a crime
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) - Investigators are looking into whether the SUV driver who plowed through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40, was fle...
Nov 22, 2021
Prosecutor in Ahmaud Arbery case: Arbery was under attack
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - None of the three white men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery had cause to make a citizen's arrest when they saw him in their neighborhood, according to a prosecutor, who s...
Nov 22, 2021
Former city councillor Rob Miyashiro nominated as Alberta NDP candidate for Lethbridge-East
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Alberta NDP has its candidate for the riding of Lethbridge-East.Rob Miyashiro will campaign to become an MLA in the next provincial election, set for 2023. He was up against Kevin...
Nov 22, 2021
Official: More than 90% of fed workers got shots by deadline
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 90% of federal workers have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by Monday's deadline set by President Joe Biden. Biden announced in September that all federal ...
Nov 22, 2021
IOC call with Chinese tennis star Peng raises more questions
A video call between Olympic officials and Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, whose nearly three-week disappearance from public view sparked an outcry, was meant to reassure the world that she was safe...
Nov 22, 2021
IOC call with Chinese tennis star Peng raises more questions
A video call between Olympic officials and Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, whose nearly three-week disappearance from public view sparked an outcry, was meant to reassure the world that she was safe...
Nov 22, 2021
Vermont Democratic US Rep. Peter Welch to seek Senate seat
Vermont's sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrat Peter Welch, announced Monday that he will run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy. Welch's decision...
Nov 22, 2021
B.C. mudslide victim identified as rugby player originally from Calgary
CALGARY - Last Monday, as flooding and mudslides ravaged British Columbia, Dean Hopkins got a distraught call from his close friend's wife, saying her husband was missing. That phone call kicked off s...
Nov 22, 2021