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Quebec's tax on the unvaccinated could enhance inequity: Black Health Alliance
OTTAWA - The Black Health Alliance says Quebec's proposal to bring in a financial penalty for unvaccinated residents risks further entrenching inequities in Canada's pandemic response and eroding trus...
Jan 11, 2022
P.E.I. potato farmers seek end to trade suspension, but U.S. officials want more data
FREDERICTON - Farmers on Prince Edward Island say there's no scientific basis for a suspension of exports of Island potatoes to the United States and it needs to be lifted now, but Canadian officials ...
Jan 11, 2022
First Afghan human rights activists arrive six months after Ottawa's promise of help
OTTAWA - Six months after the federal government promised to help thousands of Afghan women leaders, human rights activists and journalists flee to Canada, the first planeload has landed. Immigration ...
Jan 11, 2022
Pope slips out of Vatican to visit record shop, gets CD
ROME (AP) - Pope Francis grew up listening to the opera on the radio, is a fan of Argentine tango and thinks Mozart "lifts you to God." But it still came as a something of a shock to see the 85-year-o...
Jan 11, 2022
Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in US and Britain
Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically. The rea...
Jan 11, 2022
RCMP commissioner breached duty with slow response to watchdog report, judge rules
OTTAWA - A federal judge says RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki flouted the law by failing to respond promptly to a watchdog report about alleged spying on anti-oil protesters. In a newly released decisi...
Jan 11, 2022
Make Inuktitut official language in Canada, says Inuit rep on UN task force
OTTAWA - Canada is to spearhead a 10-year drive by the United Nations to revive and protect worldwide Indigenous languages, including endangered tongues such as Michif, the Mtis language. Aluki Kotier...
Jan 11, 2022
No new COVID-19-related deaths reported in the province, 1,027 new cases
Another day of high case numbers as the province reports 1,027 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today.There are currently 8,229 cases considered active which includes 838 in the northern zones of the p...
Jan 11, 2022
Nunavut schools to reopen later this month as COVID-19 case counts decline
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's education minister says students will return to school remotely next week and in-person on Jan. 24. The territory of 40,000 people has been under lockdown since late Decem...
Jan 11, 2022
Oilers GM Ken Holland on Evander Kane: 'I believe in second chances'
Ken Holland isn't closing the door on Evander Kane. In fact, he might end up rolling out the red carpet. The Edmonton Oilers general manager said Tuesday he's spoken to the controversial winger's agen...
Jan 11, 2022