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Indigenous-led bid to bring 2030 Games to Vancouver and Whistler takes next step
VANCOUVER - An Indigenous-led partnership has taken the next step in exploring a potential bid to host the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The agreement announced Tuesday between four First Nati...
Feb 01, 2022

'I'm just exhausted': Inside a Toronto hospital during the Omicron wave of COVID-19
TORONTO - Paula Abramcyzk sighs at the unknown her day will bring. Odds are, in the heart of the Omicron wave, someone will die in the intensive care unit at Humber River Hospital in Toronto. The ICU ...
Feb 01, 2022

Humboldt Big Brothers Big Sisters getting ready for Bowl for Kids Sake event
Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) in Humboldt will host their signature fundraising event in one week's time.Bowl for Kids Sake sees participants collect pledges prior to bowling at Kemway Lanes during ...
Feb 01, 2022

Indigenous delegation to meet Pope Francis at Vatican set for March
An Indigenous delegation is to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican in early spring to discuss reconciliation and healing after a visit was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A joint stateme...
Feb 01, 2022

Moe doubles down on goal to remove vaccination, negative test mandate
On the same day Saskatchewan hit the highest number of COVID-related hospitalizations since the pandemic started, Premier Scott Moe repeated and explained his push to end the vaccination or negative t...
Feb 01, 2022

Trucker protest continues in Ottawa, Trudeau contracts COVID: In The News for Feb. 1
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. 1 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Feb 01, 2022

Statistics Canada set to give first glimpse at how economy fared in 2021
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is scheduled to provide its preliminary reading of how the economy fared last year. The release this morning will include a first estimate of growth in real gross domestic p...
Feb 01, 2022

Remaining protesters say they will not leave until all COVID restrictions are lifted
OTTAWA - Crowds have thinned out considerably on Parliament Hill and the surrounding area, where anti-COVID restrictions demonstrators have been protesting for days. But those that remain say they are...
Feb 01, 2022

A Uyghur gets death sentence, as China bans once OK'd books
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - As the Chinese government tightened its grip over its ethnic Uyghur population, it sentenced one man to death and three others to life in prison last year for textbooks drawn in ...
Jan 31, 2022

Halak, Boeser help Canucks top Blackhawks 3-1
CHICAGO (AP) - Vancouver Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau likes his goaltender tandem of Thatcher Demko and Jaroslav Halak. It was Halak's turn on Monday night. Halak made 20 saves and Brock Boeser scored...
Jan 31, 2022