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Mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinics coming back to the mall
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The City of Medicine Hat says mobile vaccination clinics at the Medicine Hall Mall are providing high vaccination rates and will be back this weekend.The clinic will be at the north...
Oct 29, 2021
Environment minister 'cautiously optimistic' about UN climate change conference
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Canada has two "very heavy weeks" ahead as the government gears up for negotiations at the United Nations COP26 conference. International officials...
Oct 29, 2021
Schools close as thousands of New Brunswick public sector workers launch strike
FREDERICTON - Schools closed across New Brunswick as thousands of public sector workers walked off the job early Friday morning in a bid to secure higher wages. Steve Drost, president of the New Bruns...
Oct 29, 2021
Biden: Pope told him he should 'keep receiving communion'
ROME (AP) - President Joe Biden said the issue of abortion did not come up in his meeting with Pope Francis, but that the pontiff told him he should continue to receive Communion, despite calls from c...
Oct 29, 2021
GOP Trump critic Rep. Adam Kinzinger won't seek reelection
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a critic of Donald Trump who is one of two Republicans on the panel investigating the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack, announced Friday that ...
Oct 29, 2021
New York congressman: U.S. won't require COVID-19 test results to cross land border
WASHINGTON - The office of New York congressman Brian Higgins says U.S. Customs and Border Protection won't be requiring a negative COVID-19 test for fully vaccinated travellers in order to cross the ...
Oct 29, 2021
Flag won't be hoisted to be lowered again for Remembrance Day unless Trudeau wants
OTTAWA - The Department of Canadian Heritage says the national flag will remain at half-mast leading up to Remembrance Day instead of hoisting it up to be lowered again. The flag has been flying at ha...
Oct 29, 2021
Former defence chief Vance's obstruction of justice case to go to trial in May 2023
OTTAWA - Former chief of the defence staff Jonathan Vance's obstruction of justice case will go to trial in May 2023. Ten days of trial dates were set during a brief, virtual courtroom hearing this mo...
Oct 29, 2021
Multi alarm fire in N.E. Crescent Heights this morning
MEDICINE HAT - There was a multi-alarm fire early this morning in North East Crescent Heights.A passerby smelled smoke and heard an alarm at a home in the 900 block of 17 Street NE. at 3:14 a.m.Severa...
Oct 29, 2021
Comedian Mike Ward's mockery of disabled singer not discriminatory: Supreme Court
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says comedian Mike Ward's comments about a disabled singer did not amount to discrimination under Quebec's rights charter. In a 5-4 ruling today, the high court se...
Oct 29, 2021