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Mandatory face masks at all city owned facilities beginning Friday
If you put them away it's time to dig them back out: non-medical face masks will be mandatory in all city owned facilities effective Sept.10.The decision by Prince Albert city council comes after an i...
Sep 08, 2021

Brandon University says Theo Fleury's recent vaccine comments a 'stain on his legacy'
BRANDON, Man. - Brandon University has issued a statement publicly criticizing former NHLer Theo Fleury for spreading harmful conspiracy theories. The school in southwestern Manitoba granted Fleury an...
Sep 08, 2021

FSIN calls on feds, policing partners to help curb tragedies on Indigenous communities
Avoidable and preventable tragedies.That's how the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) described recent events in Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan.This was all from a release by th...
Sep 08, 2021

'Gasps all around:' New Burgess Shale fossil sheds light on the evolution of bigness
It was getting late and the team of paleontologists excavating a previously unexplored outcrop of the Burgess Shale was ready to call it a day. A camera crew filming the dig in Kootenay National Park ...
Sep 08, 2021

French federal debate and BoC interest rate announcement: In The News for Sept. 8
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Sept. 8 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Sep 08, 2021

Learning about 9/11: Attacks part of identity, racism lesson in Canadian classrooms
Most undergraduate students sitting in a class about Canada's military history at the University of Calgary have never known or can't remember a world before Sept. 11, 2001. David Bercuson, an associa...
Sep 08, 2021

RCMP decides against apology to Black community for excessive Halifax street checks
HALIFAX - The RCMP says there will be no formal apology to Halifax's Black communities for its heavy use of street checks, despite the Halifax regional police having done so almost two years ago. Stre...
Sep 08, 2021

Tonight's French debate, Thursday's English debate pivotal for federal leaders
OTTAWA - Five federal party leaders will face off in the first of two official election debates tonight in what may well be their best chance to sway voters before election day on Sept. 20. With less ...
Sep 08, 2021

Indonesia prison fire kills 41 drug inmates, injuring 39
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A massive fire raged through an overcrowded prison near Indonesia's capital early Wednesday, killing at least 41 inmates and injuring 39 others. Authorities are still investi...
Sep 07, 2021

Strong quake hits near Acapulco, buildings sway in capital
A powerful earthquake struck near the Pacific resort city of Acapulco on Tuesday night, causing buildings to rock and sway in Mexico City nearly 200 miles away. The U.S. Geological Survey said the qua...
Sep 07, 2021