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'Sad and disappointed': COVID-19 vaccination clinics at Alberta-US border cancelled
A feel-good story in which a Montana First Nation was holding COVID-19 vaccination clinics at the Canada-United States border in southwestern Alberta has come to an end. The Blackfeet Tribe, 150 kilom...
May 24, 2021

Raising awareness on Lyme disease
LETHBRIDGE, AB - This month, Canadians are being educated about Lyme disease.The illness is caused by a bacteria called Borrelia and is carried by various tick species in the country.Sarah Cormode sai...
May 24, 2021

Arsenic legacy in lake-bottom sediments from historic N.S. mine worries researcher
HALIFAX - Findings from a study describing the arsenic legacy left in lake-bottom sediments near an abandoned Halifax gold mine are setting off alarm bells for a senior cancer researcher. A paper publ...
May 24, 2021

Blinken off to Mideast to push peace talks after Gaza truce
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to the Middle East to press the Israelis, Palestinians and regional players to build on last week's Gaza cease-fire by laying the groundw...
May 24, 2021

Canadians of Italian origin find justice in apology for internment during WW2
OTTAWA - After decades of digging through archival material and talking with the relatives of people of Italian origin detained in Canada during the Second World War, Montreal historian Joyce Pillarel...
May 24, 2021

'Off the radar': new program aims to give visibility to young caregivers in Quebec
MONTREAL - At 13, while most of her friends were playing outdoors, Joany Roussel was home. Roussel, now 26, said she knew her life was different than most teenage girls: instead of keeping up with the...
May 24, 2021

Iran agrees to extend deal on cameras at its nuclear sites
VIENNA (AP) - Iran and the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agreed on Monday to a one-month extension to a deal on surveillance cameras at Tehran's atomic sites, buying more time for ongoing negotiations seeki...
May 24, 2021

Canadian troops, Mounties get front row seats to Israeli-Palestinian clashes
OTTAWA - A handful of Canadian Armed Forces members and RCMP officers have had front row seats over the past two weeks as protests and violence have rocked parts of Israel and the Gaza Strip, leaving ...
May 24, 2021

Canada's Dillon Brooks leads 8th-seeded Memphis over No. 1-seeded Jazz in series opener
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Memphis Grizzlies have not completely consigned their grit-and-grind days to the past. The eighth-seeded Grizzlies beat top-seeded Utah 112-109 on Sunday night in the opening...
May 24, 2021

India virus death toll passes 300,000, 3rd highest in world
NEW DELHI (AP) - India crossed another grim milestone Monday of more than 300,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a devastating surge of new infections that exploded with fury has shown signs of eas...
May 23, 2021