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The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Wednesday, June 16, 2021
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. There are 1,405,146 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 1,405,146 confirmed cases (14,148 acti...
Jun 16, 2021
Armed Forces personnel assess possible 'old' military shell in North Vancouver home
VANCOUVER - Police say a person in North Vancouver who bought what they thought was an "interesting artifact" may actually have purchased an old explosive. RCMP Sgt. Peter DeVries says they were calle...
Jun 16, 2021
Government defying order to produce documents on fired scientists: Speaker
OTTAWA - House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota says the Trudeau government has not complied with an order to produce unredacted documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada's highest ...
Jun 16, 2021
Powell: Opportunity to play for Canada in Tokyo worth the seven-week sacrifice
Battling back from a devastating Achilles injury, in a condensed NBA season that was already exhausting enough, Dwight Powell could have taken the summer off to rest. But the chance to play for Canada...
Jun 16, 2021
'Sacred country': Singer-songwriter Corb Lund holds coal mining protest concert
LIVINGSTONE RANGE, ALBERTA - Two mountain goats stubbornly refused to get up from their resting spot Wednesday in the middle of a gravel road heading into the eastern slopes of Alberta's Rocky Mountai...
Jun 16, 2021
Kamloops chief says more unmarked graves will be found across Canada
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The chief of a First Nation in Kamloops, B.C., who announced finding the remains of 215 children at a former residential school says she expects more unmarked grave sites to be discov...
Jun 16, 2021
Fact check: Putin's errant claim that Canada is second-leading source of cyberattacks
OTTAWA - Russian President Vladimir Putin contradicted the evidence Wednesday when he asserted Russians are not a leading source of cyberattacks on the United States and other countries. They are. A l...
Jun 16, 2021
Council discusses additional tactics in fight for local ambulance dispatch
Council received an update Tuesday regarding The City of Red Deer's continued advocacy efforts to have its integrated ambulance dispatch service reinstated.Since July 2020, The City of Red Deer along ...
Jun 16, 2021
MLA Stephan says Alberta 'undermined' by structural welfare of equalization
The UCP MLA for Red Deer-South says it's a stacked deck when it comes to Alberta getting a fair deal when it comes to equalization. Jason Stephan delivered a member's statement in the Alberta legislat...
Jun 16, 2021
Southern Baptists vote to probe leaders' sex abuse response
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to create a task force to oversee an independent investigation into the denominatio...
Jun 16, 2021