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Statistics Canada preps new online inflation tool to better detail price impacts
OTTAWA - The national statistics agency is readying a new online tool designed to help Canadians track the impact of price changes on their spending during the pandemic. Statistics Canada already has ...
Sep 01, 2020
Quebec daycare workers begin rotating strike as talks set to resume this week
MONTREAL - Ten thousand Quebec unionized home daycare workers began the first of a series of rotating strikes Tuesday, after negotiations with the province failed to produce a deal. The group rep...
Sep 01, 2020
RCMP responding to review sparked by director facing national-security charges
OTTAWA - The RCMP says it is working to address the findings of an independent review of how the force handled employee complaints about bullying by a senior director who now awaits trial on national-...
Sep 01, 2020
Pacific Coastal Airlines reintroduces flights to and from Victoria
PRINCE GEORGE-Flights from Prince George to Victoria, and vice-versa, will resume this fall aboard Pacific Coastal Airlines.Starting Sunday, Oct.4, flights from Northern B.C.'s capital to the province...
Sep 01, 2020
Penguins star Sidney Crosby undergoes wrist surgery
Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby underwent arthroscopic wrist surgery on Monday but should be ready to go well before the start of training camp. The team announced the procedure on Tuesday. It ...
Sep 01, 2020
Trump to wade into racial tensions with visit to Kenosha
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is diving into the latest eruption in the nation's reckoning over racial injustice with a trip Tuesday to Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the objections of local leaders. ...
Sep 01, 2020
NDP says documents prove youth minister played key role in WE controversy
OTTAWA - Federal New Democrats are turning their aim on Youth Minister Bardish Chagger, suggesting she was the key driver in the Liberal government's decision to have WE Charity run a multimillion-dol...
Sep 01, 2020
Athletes made statement last week, but experts say movement needs to continue
Fergie Jenkins can't remember having discussions with his teammates about the racism he experienced as a Black, minor-league pitcher in the American deep south in the early 1960s. Instead, t...
Sep 01, 2020
Memorial to N.S. mass shooting victims to be removed, partly to deter gawkers
HALIFAX - Four months after a lone gunman killed 22 people in rural Nova Scotia, the residents of the tiny village where the shooting started have decided to dismantle a large...
Sep 01, 2020
NYC delays start of school year to allow more prep time
New York City delayed the start of its school year by several days to give teachers more time to prepare for having students back in classrooms amid the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio anno...
Sep 01, 2020