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A look at what provinces and territories have said about COVID-19 vaccine plans
The largest mass immunization effort in Canadian history was set to begin Monday in Ontario and Quebec after the country received its first COVID-19 vaccine shipment over the weekend.The Canadian mili...
Dec 14, 2020
Saskatchewan Craft Council Fine Craft Boutique
Located within the Saskatchewan Craft Council Gallery, SCC Fine Craft Boutique is a distinctive gallery gift shop offering the handmade work of over 85 juried SCC members. The Gallery & Boutique a...
Dec 14, 2020
Outlaws Christmas Toy Drive
We are starting a new Christmas tradition of our own. Sunday, December 20th, we will be driving around a few trucks and picking up any toys you'd be willing to donate. We are looking to fill the boxes...
Dec 14, 2020
Quebec to begin inoculating against COVID-19 as first vaccines arrive
MONTREAL - Quebec's first COVID-19 vaccinations will be administered Monday afternoon in Montreal, a public health official said, as health-care workers prepared for what is being called the "historic...
Dec 14, 2020
Canada a bright light in a horrible year for refugee resettlement: UN refugee agency
OTTAWA - The year 2020 will go down as the worst for refugee resettlement in recent history, says the UN refugee agency's Canadian representative. With nearly 168 countries implementing border and tra...
Dec 14, 2020
Stocks open higher on Wall Street as vaccine rolls out in US
NEW YORK - Stocks are opening broadly higher Monday as the weekend rollout of the first batches of COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by U.S. regulators helped brighten the outlook for fighting the pande...
Dec 14, 2020
Pandemic prompts Cameco to suspend operations at Cigar Lake
Cameco is temporarily suspending production at its Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan over the coming weeks.That's due to the increasing risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and in part...
Dec 14, 2020
Series of gaps allowed massive Desjardins data breach, privacy watchdog says
OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog says a series of technological and administrative gaps caused a high-profile data breach at Desjardins - the largest in the Canadian financial services sector.In ...
Dec 14, 2020
Indonesia police: Top terror suspect mastermind of attacks
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian authorities said Monday that a top terror suspect arrested last week was the architect of a series of deadly attacks and sectarian conflicts in the world's most populou...
Dec 14, 2020
Justin Bieber, UK health workers team up for charity song
LONDON - Justin Bieber has teamed up with a choir of London medical staff to record a special charity Christmas single. The choir, made up of nurses, doctors and other health care staff working in the...
Dec 14, 2020
