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Woman seriously injured in traffic stop in British Columbia: police watchdog
CASTLEGAR, B.C. - British Columbia's police watchdog says a woman suffered potentially life-threatening injuries after she was pulled over in a traffic stop in Castlegar on Saturday. The Independent I...
Jun 14, 2021

Conservative MP Tim Uppal sorry for role in 'divisiveness' of Harper-era policies
OTTAWA - A former Conservative cabinet minister is apologizing for not pushing against his party's culturally divisive polices of the Stephen Harper era, including an effort to ban face coverings duri...
Jun 14, 2021

Liberal cabinet ministers criticize senior military officers who golfed with Vance
OTTAWA - Liberal cabinet ministers are expressing their dismay after senior military officers recently joined former defence chief Jonathan Vance for a game of golf in Ottawa. Deputy Prime Minister Ch...
Jun 14, 2021

Tourism PG Visitor Centre is back in business
PRINCE GEORGE- After a temporary physical closure of over five months, the Tourism Prince George Visitor Information Centre re-opened today . Re-developed protective safety measures are in place with ...
Jun 14, 2021

Canada to receive 9.5M vaccine doses this week thanks to influx of Moderna shots
OTTAWA - Canada is poised to receive around 9.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses this week thanks to a massive infusion of shots from Moderna. The federal government says the Massachusetts-based pharmac...
Jun 14, 2021

A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on June 14, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Monday June 14, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 383,285 new vaccinations administered for a total of 29,008,156 ...
Jun 14, 2021

NATO leaders declare China a global security challenge
BRUSSELS (AP) - NATO leaders on Monday declared that China poses a constant security challenge and is working to undermine global order, and they said they're worried about how fast the Chinese are de...
Jun 14, 2021

Canada looks to finish job against Haiti, move into final World Cup qualifying round
Defender Alistair Johnston knows his Canadian World Cup qualifying history - and what dispatching Haiti on Tuesday would mean. The 70th-ranked Canadian men can move into the so-called Octagonal, the e...
Jun 14, 2021

As US COVID-19 death toll nears 600,000, racial gaps persist
Jerry Ramos spent his final days in a California hospital, hooked to an oxygen machine with blood clots in his lungs from COVID-19, his 3-year-old daughter in his thoughts. "I have to be here to watch...
Jun 14, 2021

After COVID-19 shut down racing for a year, Knight running faster than ever
When the global track and field schedule shut down due to COVID-19, Justyn Knight went a year without a race. But a student of his sport, he put the time to good use, studying the world's top middle-d...
Jun 14, 2021