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Weekly EPI reports 10 new COVID-related deaths along with 285 new cases in the province
Deaths from COVID-19 have remained consistent from one week to the other according to the Ministry of Health's COVID-19 integrated epidemiology (epi) report.There were 10 newly-reported COVID-19 death...
Jun 9, 2022
Golf Canada confirms its athletes are free to engage in Safe Sport process
TORONTO - Golf Canada says its athletes are free to speak about political activism, self-expression on social justice issues and Safe Sport. The statement comes a day after Canada's sport minister sai...
Jun 9, 2022
Urgent measures must be taken to ensure rights of Canadian children: UN committee
OTTAWA - The United Nations committee on the rights of the child says it has serious concerns about the welfare of Indigenous children in Canada. The committee, which reviewed Canada's progress on imp...
Jun 9, 2022
N.S. mass shooting: Bureaucracy and muddled advice in RCMP's search for helicopter
HALIFAX - The inquiry investigating the Nova Scotia mass shooting has released new details about the Mounties' scramble to find an aircraft to track down the killer on the night of April 18, 2020. Doc...
Jun 9, 2022
Casino supervisor tells court that former MP became agitated over blackjack losses
OTTAWA - A casino supervisor says a former Liberal MP facing breach of trust and fraud charges got so agitated playing blackjack four years ago it prompted him to write up a report about the incident....
Jun 9, 2022
Crowd supports Weir, Hughes, and Hadwin bright and early at Canadian Open
TORONTO - Mike Weir didn't expect to have much of a gallery on a rainy Thursday morning at St. George's Golf and Country Club. But there were dozens of fans waiting for him and fellow Canadians Macken...
Jun 9, 2022
Michigan officer charged with murder in Lyoya shooting
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A Michigan police officer who killed Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, with a shot to the back of his head has been charged with second-degree murder. Prosecutor Chris Becker anno...
Jun 9, 2022
More females, older drug users dying due to unregulated drug market: B.C. coroner
VICTORIA - The coroners service in British Columbia says more females are dying from illicit drug use. It says that while men have historically accounted for nearly 80 per cent of fatalities, more tha...
Jun 9, 2022
Safety board blames improper training for death at Montreal's giant ferris wheel
MONTREAL - Quebec's workplace safety board is blaming deficient safety practices at the ferris wheel in Montreal's Old Port for the death of a worker at the tourist attraction on Christmas Day 2021. T...
Jun 9, 2022
Fashion show and food bank fundraiser to highlight Prince Albert street fair
A first of its kind event in Prince Albert will be helping the city's food bank.An Aboriginal Designer Fashion on June 18, will coincide with a drive to fill a bus. Organizer Leanne Bear told paNOW sh...
Jun 9, 2022
