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PHAC head says Privacy Act prevents explanation for firing of two scientists
OTTAWA - The president of the Public Health Agency of Canada is refusing to explain why two Canadian government scientists were let go 18 months after being escorted from Canada's highest-security lab...
Mar 26, 2021
Alberta back over 7,000 active COVID-19 cases; nearly one-quarter are variants
There are 10 active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Friday.The city now has had 574 total cases - the 10 active, 547 recovered and there have been 17 deaths.There is one new case in the city toda...
Mar 26, 2021
Judge rejects fashion mogul Peter Nygard's appeal of decision that denied him bail
WINNIPEG - A Canadian fashion leader facing sex trafficking and racketeering charges in the United States will have to remain in jail after an unsuccessful attempt to appeal an earlier ruling that den...
Mar 26, 2021
Doctor working out of car and home concerned for future of health care
MEDICINE HAT, AB - His new office is his car and home.After his salary was nearly cut in half, Dr. Bill Ruzycki. was forced to close his office doors."We were chronically underfunded like back in the ...
Mar 26, 2021
Auger-Aliassime wins in straight sets in first match at Miami Open
MIAMI - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime is heading to the third round of the Miami Open. The No. 11 seed from Montreal beat Pierre-Hugues Herbert of France 6-4, 6-4 in a second-round match at the ATP T...
Mar 26, 2021
B.C. is first in Canada to set emissions targets for industries, communities
VICTORIA - British Columbia has set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for most sectors in the provincial economy, including the oil and gas industry. The Ministry of Environment and Climate Ch...
Mar 26, 2021
Canadian Mackenzie Hughes advances to round of 16 in match-play event
AUSTIN, Texas - Canada's Mackenzie Hughes has advanced to the knockout stage of the Dell Technologies Match Play. The golfer from Dundas, Ont., won Group 9 with a record of 2-0-1 after tying American ...
Mar 26, 2021
Report clears France of complicity in 1994 Rwandan Genocide
PARIS - A commission that spent nearly two years uncovering France's role in 1994's Rwandan genocide concluded Friday that the country reacted too slowly in appreciating the extent of the horror that ...
Mar 26, 2021
Maritime traffic jam grows outside blocked Suez Canal
SUEZ, Egypt - A maritime traffic jam grew to more than 200 vessels Friday outside the Suez Canal and some vessels began changing course as dredgers and tugboats worked to free a giant container ship t...
Mar 26, 2021
Pelosi taps DC National Guard head to lead House security
WASHINGTON - Maj. Gen. William Walker, commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, was tapped Friday to become the House's first African American sergeant-at-arms as Congress sorts ...
Mar 26, 2021