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Enjoy the Summer StoryWalk in Police Point Park
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Summer Story Walk is up and available in Police Point Park.This summer's book is The Thing Lou Couldn't Do by Canadian author Ashley Spires.The read-aloud story explores what we...
Jul 12, 2021
The Royal St. John's Regatta is back this year — but without the lakeside party
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The 203rd Royal St. John's Regatta will go ahead this year after the COVID-19 pandemic kept rowers away from the lake last summer, but the event will be a completely different exper...
Jul 12, 2021
National strategy calls on Canada to address Inuit food security crisis
OTTAWA - A new strategy from Canada's Inuit organization calls on the federal government to support a national Inuit food security strategy to address what it calls a national public health crisis. Th...
Jul 12, 2021
Judge overseeing church challenge of COVID-19 restrictions says he was followed
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba judge overseeing a court challenge of public health rules by seven churches says he's deeply troubled a private investigator was hired to follow him with the intent of finding in...
Jul 12, 2021
Carolyn Rogers named new senior deputy at Bank of Canada
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is naming Carolyn Rogers as its new senior deputy governor. Rogers is a former assistant superintendent at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. She h...
Jul 12, 2021
Canada to donate 17.7M doses of AstraZeneca and raise money for global vaccination
OTTAWA - The federal government is donating 17.7 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and is asking Canadians to give their own money to help other countries get needles into arms. Procurem...
Jul 12, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Monday, July 12, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 10:30 a.m. Ontario is reporting 114 new COVID-19 cases today and no deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Health officials...
Jul 12, 2021
Ottawa adds national security risk assessments to federal research funding
OTTAWA - The federal government is setting new guidelines that work national security considerations into funding criteria for university research. Innovation Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says ...
Jul 12, 2021
Pfizer to discuss COVID-19 vaccine booster with US officials
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pfizer says it plans to meet with top U.S. health officials Monday to discuss the drugmaker's request for federal authorization of a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine as President J...
Jul 12, 2021
Coronavirus infects vaccinated leader at Florida condo site
MIAMI (AP) - A vaccinated Miami-Dade county commissioner who helped other local officials in Surfside following the collapse of a condominium building announced that he and his chief of staff tested p...
Jul 12, 2021