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Feds launch process to develop legislation on Indigenous-controlled health care
OTTAWA - The federal government will work with Indigenous leaders to co-develop legislation aimed at giving First Nations, Metis and Inuit people control over the delivery of health care in their comm...
Jan 28, 2021
Saskatchewan-made app aimed at helping farmers’ mental health launched
Farmers across Saskatchewan have a lot to worry about on any given day and a new app is hoping to help support producers and their mental health.Bridges Health, which is based in Saskatoon, was awarde...
Jan 28, 2021
Surge in P.A. home sale volumes
Houses in Prince Albert are changing hands at a rate that hasn't been seen in three years.Despite lower activity in April due to COVID-19 restrictions, 2020 sales in the city shot above 2019 levels fr...
Jan 28, 2021
WHL gets approval for Central Division teams in Alberta to play, other 17 teams still have to wait
The Western Hockey League's Central Division will start playing games Feb. 26. The league was granted approval from the Government of Alberta and Alberta Health to start as soon as the end of February...
Jan 28, 2021
Botticelli painting sells for $92 million at auction in NYC
NEW YORK - A small painting by Sandro Botticelli sold at Sotheby's in New York on Thursday for $92.2 million, an auction record for the Renaissance master. The work, "Young Man Holding a Roundel," fro...
Jan 28, 2021
Netflix leads GLAAD Media Awards for LGBTQ representation
NEW YORK - Netflix is once again the top contender at the GLAAD Media Awards with 26 nominations, snapping up film nods for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and "The Prom," comedy series nominations for "De...
Jan 28, 2021
Kenny Chesney group helps install artificial reef in Florida
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Country music superstar Kenny Chesney's No Shoes Reefs organization is helping to install an artificial reef off of Florida's Atlantic coast. The organization and other marine gro...
Jan 28, 2021
James Goldston stepping down as top ABC News executive
NEW YORK - ABC News President James Goldston said Thursday that he will leave the network at the end of March, after seven years of leading the news division. The low-profile Goldston leaves at a time...
Jan 28, 2021
Corky Lee, known for photographing Asian America, dies at 73
Corky Lee, a photojournalist who spent five decades spotlighting the often ignored Asian and Pacific Islander American communities, has died. He was 73. Lee died Wednesday in New York City's Queens bo...
Jan 28, 2021
Canadian Press NewsAlert: Montreal police officer shot during traffic stop
Montreal police say one of their officers was shot in the upper body during a traffic stop this afternoon.Police say the incident took place just before 4 p.m. in the city's Park-Extension neighbourho...
Jan 28, 2021
