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Fri, 1 Jan 2021 06:02:40 EST
2 teens arrested after death of Calgary Sgt. Andrew Harnett
Two teen suspects sought in connection with the death of Calgary Sgt. Andrew Harnett have been arrested after they surrendered to police on Friday. Harnett died on New Year's Eve after police said he...

Fri, 1 Jan 2021 13:30:00 EST
Kenney orders MLAs not to leave Canada unless on government business after minister's vacation
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney took responsibility for not being clear about travel rules for MLAs after news of Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard's Hawaii vacation was revealed.

Fri, 1 Jan 2021 16:53:48 EST
P.E.I.'s first baby of 2021 not first New Year's Day birth for family
P.E.I.'s first baby of 2021 was born at 2:22 p.m. at Prince County Hospital on Friday. It turns out she's not the first New Year's Day baby in her extended family. 

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 10:09:35 EST
Ontario reports record high 3,328 new COVID-19 cases, 56 new deaths
Ontario reported a single-day record of 3,328 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and 56 new deaths related to the illness. 

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 07:00:00 EST
Alberta's first 500 COVID deaths took nearly 9 months. The next 500 took just 34 days.
Alberta recently recorded its 1,000th COVID-19 death, a grim milestone that arrived in a flash in a marked turnaround for a province that seemed to have the disease under relative control for a time....

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 04:00:00 EST
Moms are welcoming the first wave of 'coronial' babies — but experts say to expect fewer births
Nearly 10 months after Alberta's first presumptive COVID-19 case was confirmed, mothers across the province are giving birth to what some have dubbed "the coronial generation."

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 05:30:00 EST
DFO has a new plan for northern cod stocks. It doesn't include more fishing
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has released its plan to boost northern cod numbers — a plan that the fisheries union in Newfoundland and Labrador blasts as being more about resettling commun...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:12:29 EST
Customers fundraise to send Ontario Tim Hortons employee back to school
When customers at a Vaughan, Ont., Tim Hortons found out that their favourite employee, Vishnu Gopansothilingan, had dropped out of university due to financial constraints, they began to fundraise to ...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 04:00:00 EST
Dildo was hoping to cash in on a post-Kimmel boom — then came the pandemic
Sulagna Sanyal and Rajesh Menon opened the first Indian restaurant in the coastal Newfoundland village of Dildo, tapping into a tourism boom heightened by interest from U.S. talk-show host Jimmy Kimme...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 06:00:00 EST
How P.E.I.'s farming and fishing industries are adapting to the new normal
For good and ill, fishing and farming on P.E.I. are already different because of climate change.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 05:00:00 EST
7-year-old teaches Mi'kmaw quillwork, a skill she learned from her mom
Head bent toward her work, Carolyn Simon uses tweezers to carefully pull a porcupine quill through a tiny hole in a piece of birch bark. It's a technique she's seen her mom do hundreds of times, and ...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 04:00:00 EST
The dark side: 2020 was a boom year for horror on-screen — and that's no accident
Horror landed in 2020 both instructing and judging, as well as thriving. It's a boom time for the genre, which entered its renaissance only a few years ago and is likely to only be helped by a global ...

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:00:00 EST
How Canadians will know when it's their turn to get vaccinated
With the recent announcement that Health Canada has approved the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, Canadians are likely wondering when it will be their turn to get inoculated. 

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 04:00:00 EST
Majority of borrowed books across Ontario libraries in 2020 weren't published this year
In a year dominated by a global pandemic and American politics, some might find it fitting that the library book most likely to be checked out across Ontario was a hopeful memoir written by the former...

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 23:04:45 EST
B.C. avalanche vicitim loved the outdoors, had safety training, says mother
“Nicholas did live his dreams,” Suzanne Bowker said of her son, who was found dead Tuesday. “And I am happy that he was happy. I'm not happy that he's gone but I'm happy that he was able to do s...

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 21:36:20 EST
Father of 14-year-old Metro Vancouver homicide victim says his son was set up
David Weisgarber said he believes son Tequel Willis was set up by someone who asked him to deliver a set of car keys to Surrey.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 04:00:00 EST
For Osie the rescue cat, 2020 was just perfect
A little black and white cat was one of 347 rescued from a single, squalid two-bedroom Toronto apartment in 2019. This year, during lockdowns one and two, she's become the best thing of her owner's ye...

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 21:03:20 EST
B.C. mom describes 'surreal experience' meeting new son after waking up from COVID-related coma
A B.C. mom who gave birth while in an induced coma because of COVID-19 says she was released from hospital just in time to spend Christmas at home with her family.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:56:24 EST
Vancouver party host spends Christmas in jail after repeated fines for violating COVID-19 public health orders
A 24-year-old Vancouver man spent Christmas night in jail after repeatedly hosting parties that violated COVID-19 public health orders.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:51:39 EST
Alberta government falls far short of goal to vaccinate 29,000 people against COVID-19 by year's end
Alberta will fall far short of the UCP government’s promise to vaccinate 29,000 people against COVID-19 by the end of the year, Premier Jason Kenney has acknowledged.



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