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Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine allocations to Canada already assuming six doses per vial
OTTAWA - Pfizer and BioNTech are already assuming Canada will agree its COVID-19 vaccine vials contain six doses instead of five and are using that to project how many vials it will send Canada in the...
Jan 28, 2021
Quebec City mosque co-founder decries lack of federal progress on curbing handguns
OTTAWA - The co-founder of the Quebec City mosque where six people were killed and many others injured four years ago this week laments the lack of federal progress on handgun control in a new letter ...
Jan 28, 2021
It's time for a First Nations person to be governor general: Bellegarde
OTTAWA - Perry Bellegarde of the Assembly of First Nations says it's time for Canada to have a First Nations governor general now that Julie Payette has resigned from the role. The national chief of t...
Jan 28, 2021
Report recommends against basic income in British Columbia, saying it's no cure-all
VANCOUVER - A government-commissioned panel is recommending against the introduction of a basic income for all in British Columbia. The panel's report, co-authored by academics at the University of B....
Jan 28, 2021
SGI customers warned about email scam
SGI is warning its customers that they are being targeted through an email scam.In a news release, SGI says the scammers send emails to their targets, asking them to provide a photo or scan of their d...
Jan 28, 2021
SUN, SEIU-West ratify new contracts with SAHO
For the first time since the Saskatchewan Health Authority was formed in December of 2017, it has collective bargaining agreements in place with the unions that represent all of its employees.In a med...
Jan 28, 2021
‘It’s just tough:’ Parents hoping for better news after son paralyzed in snowboarding accident
A day trip to the ski hill has left an Aberdeen-born hockey player paralyzed and the hockey community is rallying behind him.Kyrell Sopotyk, a member of the WHL's Kamloops Blazers, was snowboarding wh...
Jan 28, 2021
Ontario awaits new COVID-19 modelling; Quebec reports exceptional rise in deaths
Ontario is awaiting the first COVID-19 projections since a stay-at-home order came into effect two weeks ago. Canada's most populous province reported 2,093 new infections today and 56 more deaths lin...
Jan 28, 2021
Supreme Court won't hear police oversight case; Black family alleged brutality
TORONTO - Canada's top court refused on Thursday to hear a case involving the limits of police oversight, prompting a renewed call for a misconduct hearing against a police officer a Black family accu...
Jan 28, 2021
Canadian guard Carr takes his mental and physical game to a new level at Minnesota
After a sophomore season that was decent, but in his view not good enough, Marcus Carr returned home to Toronto to double down on his college basketball career. The 21-year-old junior at Minnesota wor...
Jan 28, 2021