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NHL Notebook: A look at some of the stories to watch in 2022
NHL life in 2021 - like regular life - was dominated by COVID-19. The league manoeuvred, contorted and pivoted to play a 56-game campaign that culminated in July with the Tampa Bay Lightning winning t...
Jan 05, 2022
Governor pardons Plessy, of ‘separate but equal’ ruling
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana's governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 to protest racial segregati...
Jan 05, 2022
Saskatchewan outlines steps to keep schools open
The Saskatchewan government doesn't have any immediate plans to move schools to online learning.On Wednesday, the government outlined the steps it plans to take to keep schools operating in the midst ...
Jan 05, 2022
Some overloaded Quebec health-care facilities forced to cancel staff vacations
MONTREAL - Several Quebec health authorities are being forced to cancel employee vacations as the province struggles with staff shortages and rising COVID-19 hospitalizations, and some workers fear th...
Jan 05, 2022
Veteran sports journalist Machabée joins Canadiens as communications VP
MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens announced Wednesday that veteran sports journalist Chantal Machabe is the team's new vice president, communications. Machabe, a native of Laval, Que., has spent the l...
Jan 05, 2022
Trudeau and Tam to hold first federal update on COVID-19 of the new year
Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam will join Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this morning for the first federal COVID-19 update of the new year. The update follows Trudeau's phone call yesterda...
Jan 05, 2022
THE YEAR AHEAD: Meili hopes COVID takes a back seat in the new year
The new year means a new start and a new chapter to write.NDP Leader Ryan Meili hopes that chapter includes a new NDP MLA in the Athabasca riding."I'm excited to get up there. Northwest Saskatchewan i...
Jan 05, 2022
Honorary Chairperson named for 2022 P.A. Winter Festival
The Prince Albert Winter Festival has named its Honorary Chairperson for the 2022 event.Franklin Carriere first became involved with the winter festival in 1966 at the dog racing events.Carriere won t...
Jan 05, 2022
Undisclosed number dead in large Philadelphia house fire
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A large house fire in Philadelphia early Wednesday killed 13 people, including seven children, and sent two people to hospitals, fire officials said. Officials said at a news confe...
Jan 05, 2022
Canada's Alphonso Davies latest Bayern player to test positive for COVID-19
MUNICH - Bayern Munich says Canadian star Alphonso Davies has joined the list of players to test positive for COVID-19. The Bundesliga club says the 21-year-old fullback from Edmonton is well and self...
Jan 05, 2022
