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TYH: 'Tis the season for the bugs, the bites and the itch: Bug spray
I love spring. It's one step closer to summer. But the bugs, ugh, the bugs. I hate those so much!Luckily, the human race has created several ways to keep the bugs at bay during the time of year when t...
Jun 09, 2020
Feds commit $8.9M in foreign aid for reproductive health services amid COVID-19
OTTAWA - Canada is dedicating $8.9 million in new international aid to ensure women and girls around the world have safe access to abortion and reproductive health services during the C...
Jun 09, 2020
Feds commit $8.9M in foreign aid for reproductive health services amid COVID-19
OTTAWA - Canada is dedicating $8.9 million in new international aid to ensure women and girls around the world have safe access to abortion and reproductive health services during the C...
Jun 09, 2020
Singh says NDP won't support Liberal bill that would jail, fine CERB fraudsters
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says it is irresponsible and wrong-headed for the Liberal government to draft a bill that would fine or imprison people who made fraudulent claims under the Canada Em...
Jun 09, 2020
Humpback whale that thrilled crowds in Montreal reported dead in St. Lawrence
MONTREAL - A whale research group says a wayward humpback whale that had captivated crowds in the Montreal area in recent days appears to have been found dead. The Group for Research and Edu...
Jun 09, 2020
More funding freed up for organizations working on food security
OTTAWA - The federal government is spending more money to help food banks and other community organizations working to increase food security. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced t...
Jun 09, 2020
B.C., Ontario shipyards team up to win multibillion-dollar icebreaker contract
OTTAWA - Canada's sharply divided shipbuilding industry was dealt a surprise this morning as two competing yards announced plans to team up to win a multibillion-dollar contract to build a new polar i...
Jun 09, 2020
Northern Shuswap Treaty Council and Tribal Council celebrate $32 million loan forgiveness
SECWEPEMCULUCW, WILLIAMS LAKE-The Northern Shuswap Treaty Society (NSTS) and the Northern Shuswap Tribal Council (NSTC) are celebrating the forgiveness of over $32 million in accumulated negotiation d...
Jun 09, 2020
George Floyd, whose death energized a movement, to be buried
HOUSTON - The black man whose death has inspired a worldwide reckoning over racial injustice will be buried in Houston Tuesday, carried home in a horse-drawn carriage. George Floyd, who was 46 when he...
Jun 09, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:15 p.m. on June 8, 2020:There are 96,244 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada._ Quebec: 53,047 confirmed (includin...
Jun 09, 2020