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Raises from pay equity law to land three years after rules take effect, watchdog says
OTTAWA - Canada's pay equity commissioner says the first raises under soon-to-be-enacted legislation should happen by 2024. Commissioner Karen Jensen also says that it may take several more years befo...
Feb 04, 2021
Asif Mir found guilty of smuggling 50 kg of meth at Coutts
LETHBRIDGE, AB - A Calgary man has been found guilty in what was, at the time, the largest seizure of meth at the Coutts border crossing.Asif Mir, 41, was charged in July 2019 with one count each of p...
Feb 04, 2021
Doctors fear an impending wave of cancer patients after COVID-19 delays
MONTREAL, Italy - While the prospect of mass vaccination has raised hopes of the COVID-19 crisis soon waning, oncologists and cancer researchers say one of its grim legacies may be a lingering increas...
Feb 04, 2021
Woman found dead in Edmonton hotel room was too drunk to consent to sex: lawyers
EDMONTON - A Crown prosecutor is arguing that a man accused of killing a woman in an Edmonton hotel room did not ask for her consent to perform a sexual act that caused her fatal wound. Bradley Barton...
Feb 04, 2021
Remote care saving grace for many COVID patients, hospitals; oxygen monitoring vital
TORONTO - One saving grace amid the devastation of COVID-19 has been that the vast majority of those infected are able to recover at home, allowing hospitals to cope with what would otherwise have bee...
Feb 04, 2021
Montreal police defend probe into alleged cop attack after suspect exonerated
Montreal's police chief is defending his police force after charges were suddenly dropped against a man accused of attempted murder of an officer. Sylvain Caron said today in a statement that police o...
Feb 04, 2021
Indigenous health legislation needed to end racism in health care: Miller
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the federal government has launched consultations on a law meant to ensure Indigenous Peoples' control over the development and delivery of their...
Feb 04, 2021
COVID-19 cases in Indigenous communities hit lowest point since December: minister
Indigenous Services Canada says the number of people with COVID-19 in First Nations communities has declined to the lowest point since Dec. 6 with 1,869 active cases reported as of yesterday.The depar...
Feb 04, 2021
Dr. Amy Acton leaves non-profit to explore run for US Senate
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Dr. Amy Acton, the former state health director who became the face of Ohio's early pandemic response, is stepping down from her non-profit position to "carefully explore" running as ...
Feb 04, 2021
Toronto Argonauts continue busy week by signing sack specialist Charleston Hughes
TORONTO - The Toronto Argonauts have signed six-time CFL all-star defensive end Charleston Hughes. The 37-year-old Hughes was released by the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Wednesday when the two sides c...
Feb 04, 2021