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Messy winter storm slams into the Maritimes
HALIFAX - A winter storm is sweeping over the Maritimes, forcing the closure of schools and making driving treacherous. Snowfall and winter storm warnings remain in effect for much of the region, thou...
Feb 02, 2021
T-shirt latest source of tension in China-Canada ties
BEIJING - China says it has lodged a formal complaint with Canada over T-shirts ordered by one of the country's Beijing Embassy staff that allegedly mocked China's response to the coronavirus outbreak...
Feb 02, 2021
Canada on verge of deal to make COVID-19 vaccines at home
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today is expected to announce the makings of an agreement to produce COVID-19 vaccines within Canada. Industry Minister Francois-Phillipe Champagne tells The Can...
Feb 02, 2021
Positive COVID-19 cases identified in École St. Mary and Wesmor High School
Officials from the Saskatchewan Health Authority identified a positive COVID-19 case in an individual at cole St. Mary High School in Prince Albert on Monday. The case is not school acquired. Communic...
Feb 02, 2021
Council approves 2021 budget with no tax increase
Prince Albert city council has passed the 2021 budget, with a last minute amendment cutting the tax increase down to zero per cent. At the end of three days of budget deliberations, council had tentat...
Feb 02, 2021
Euro economy shrank at end of 2020 under pandemic's weight
The European economy shrank by a smaller than expected 0.7% in the last three months of 2020 as businesses in France and Germany weathered a renewed round of anti-COVID-19 lockdowns somewhat better th...
Feb 02, 2021
Pakistan orders man acquitted in Pearl murder off death row
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl off death row and moved to a so-called go...
Feb 02, 2021
Groundhog Day moves online across Canada as precaution against COVID-19
Groundhog Day will be observed online across Canada today in the interest of public safety during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.Ontario's Wiarton Willie and Nova Scotia's Shubenacadie Sam will make th...
Feb 02, 2021
Development in wildlife corridor in mountain town of Canmore, Alta., back for debate
A decades-old debate over development in an important wildlife corridor in an Alberta mountain community is to be back before council next week. Plans for two projects, which make up about 80 per cent...
Feb 02, 2021
National Defence grappling with new delay in $60B warship project
OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence says the first of 15 new warships being built for the Royal Canadian Navy will be delivered years later than expected as officials working on the $60-billio...
Feb 02, 2021
