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Border agency closes two Atlantic offices due to COVID-19 infections, close contacts
OTTAWA - Canada's border agency said it is temporarily closing two ports of entry in the Atlantic region due to COVID-19. The Canada Border Services Agency said the affected offices are in Bathurst, N...
Dec 29, 2021

CP NewsAlert: B.C. delays return to class for most students until Jan. 10 over COVID
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is delaying the full return to classrooms in January to allow public health officials to assess the impact of the COVID-19 Omicron variant and give school staff time to im...
Dec 29, 2021

Three depots to recycle your real Christmas tree
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Christmas Day has passed and some in our community have already begun to clear out the signs. That includes putting fake Christmas trees back into storage for another year. But what...
Dec 29, 2021

Canada's bobsled team places 13 team members in COVID-19 protocols
SIGULDA, Latvia - Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton has placed 10 of its athletes and three staff members into COVID-19 protocols. A spokesman from the national sport organization confirmed the outbreak on We...
Dec 29, 2021

Plenty of Canadian content on display in February UFC cards
Featherweight (Mean) Hakeem Dawodu is one of four Canadians lined up for a UFC Fight Night card Feb. 5 in Las Vegas. Middleweight Marc-Andre (PowerBar) Barriault, flyweight Malcolm (X) Gordon and bant...
Dec 29, 2021

Canucks forwards Boeser, Di Giuseppe added to NHL's COVID protocol
Vancouver Canucks forwards Brock Boeser and Phillip Di Giuseppe and a member of the team's support staff have been added to the NHL's COVID-19 protocol list hours before the team was scheduled to retu...
Dec 29, 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell convicted in Epstein sex abuse case
NEW YORK (AP) - The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The verdict capped a monthlon...
Dec 29, 2021

Police pleased to see fewer impaired drivers this year
MEDICINE HAT, AB - City police say holiday party-goers have been keeping safety top of mind as they've been celebrating the season.Medicine Hat police have held two advertised checkstops in December a...
Dec 29, 2021

Toronto preparing to redeploy hundreds of staff amid COVID-19 surge
City of Toronto officials say they are preparing to redeploy hundreds of staff to support critical and essential services in response to a surge in new COVID-19 cases fuelled by the highly contagious ...
Dec 29, 2021

RCMP respond to train derailment near Barons
BARONS, AB - A train derailment near the village of Barons has caused a traffic disruption this morning.On Dec. 29, at around 9:30 a.m., Picture Butte RCMP and fire crews responded to the incident nea...
Dec 29, 2021