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Quebec City ready for demonstration against COVID-19 health orders, premier says
Quebec Premier Franois Legault says he's confident a trucker protest planned in Quebec City this weekend against COVID-19 public health orders won't be a repeat of what's happening in Ottawa. Legault ...
Feb 04, 2022
Quebec middleweight Marc-Andre Barriault believes he's found recipe for UFC success
Quebec middleweight Marc-Andre (Powerbar) Barriault is a long way from his hometown of Gatineau, Que., and former training base of Quebec City these days. The 31-year-old mixed martial artist has call...
Feb 04, 2022
Ottawa police deploy 'surge' in bid to control, end 'increasingly volatile' protest
Ottawa police are deploying a "surge" of about 150 extra police officers to central areas of the city paralyzed by the protest against COVID-19 mandates that has been going on for days. Police Chief P...
Feb 04, 2022
Employment in Saskatchewan rose in January: Statistics Canada
Saskatchewan added 3,900 jobs in January, according to data released Friday by Statistics Canada.The unemployment rate in the province was 5.5 per cent, the same as it was in December. The only provin...
Feb 04, 2022
Quebec cuts funding to English college in favour of French schools ahead of election
MONTREAL - Squeezed for space, Montreal's Dawson College has for years been planning an expansion of its medical technology department that would include a clinic to serve the community and train its ...
Feb 04, 2022
COVID falling in 49 of 50 states as deaths near 900,000
With the brutal omicron wave rapidly loosening its grip, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. are falling in 49 of 50 states, even as the nation's death toll closes in on another bleak round number: 900,...
Feb 04, 2022
Raiders ready for Rebels and Oil Kings in return to rink
After another 12 days of forced time away from the rink, the Prince Albert Raiders will get back into action this weekend with a pair of games at the Art Hauser Centre. They'll take on the Red Deer Re...
Feb 04, 2022
Police: Arrest in altercation that badly injured 49ers fan
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A suspect was arrested in an altercation that badly injured a San Francisco 49ers fan in a parking lot outside SoFi Stadium during last weekend's NFC championship game between the 4...
Feb 04, 2022
Police: Arrest in altercation that badly injured 49ers fan
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A suspect was arrested in an altercation that badly injured a San Francisco 49ers fan in a parking lot outside SoFi Stadium during last weekend's NFC championship game between the 4...
Feb 04, 2022
Ex-Montreal Canadien Chris Nilan says he lost radio job over vaccine refusal
MONTREAL - Former Montreal Canadiens forward turned radio host Chris Nilan says he was fired from TSN 690, a Montreal sports radio station, after he refused to take a COVID-19 vaccine. In a letter pos...
Feb 04, 2022
