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Canada buys up millions more doses of Moderna's bivalent COVID-19 vaccine
OTTAWA - Moderna says the federal government has purchased a total of 12 million doses of the company's bivalent vaccine that targets both the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant. Cana...
Aug 22, 2022

Counts withdrawn for one of two charged in jewelry store robberies
One of two men charged in a series of alleged jewelry thefts in southern and central Alberta has had his charges withdrawn and ordered for discharge. Carl Christopher Quesnell, 49, had counts of theft...
Aug 22, 2022

Jury gets case of 2 men charged in Gov. Whitmer plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A jury has heard closing arguments and begun deliberations in the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The jury in Grand...
Aug 22, 2022

Trial scheduled for pair charged in central Alberta shooting
Two men charged in a central Alberta shooting last year that sent one man to hospital with life-threatening injuries are going to trial next year.William Edgar Littlechild, 23, of the Ermineskin Cree ...
Aug 22, 2022

Quebec allowing four people per room in care homes, against coroner's recommendations
MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department is allowing long-term care centres to house up to four residents in the same room - a new directive that runs against recommendations by the coroner. Jean-Charles...
Aug 22, 2022

Fauci, top infectious disease expert, to retire in December
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who became a household name - and the subject of partisan attacks - during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he wi...
Aug 22, 2022

U.S. lawmakers, advocates pushing Ottawa to eliminate ArriveCan, open Nexus offices
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers and advocates in the United States are ramping up the pressure on the federal government to ease travel delays between the U.S. and Canada. The Canadian American Business Counci...
Aug 22, 2022

MISSING: Roman Kostur, 43, Red Deer
Red Deer RCMP can confirm that Roman Kostur has been located.The RCMP thank the media and the public for their assistance.
Aug 22, 2022

Five questions with Canadian hockey 'golden-goaler' Marie-Philip Poulin
Canadian women's hockey team captain Marie-Philip Poulin is the only hockey player in the world, male or female, to score goals in four straight Olympic hockey finals. The 31-year-old from Beauceville...
Aug 22, 2022

N.S. shooting inquiry: Senior RCMP member learned of killer's replica car in the news
HALIFAX - The former RCMP commanding officer in Nova Scotia has told the inquiry into the April 2020 mass shooting that she first saw the killer's replica police cruiser in a news report before she we...
Aug 22, 2022