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Canada not sending fighter jets to Europe next year as Air Force rearms, regroups
OTTAWA - Canada will not send fighter jets to patrol NATO airspace next year, the first time that Canadian CF-18s will be absent from the skies over Europe since 2017. Based out of Romania, the CF-18s...
Dec 14, 2022
CPL expansion club Vancouver FC adds local 'keeper Irving as first ever signing
Vancouver FC have signed free-agent goalkeeper Callum Irving, making him the first player ever to agree to a deal with the Canadian Premier League expansion club. The 29-year-old from Vancouver spent ...
Dec 14, 2022
Black federal employees say creation of mental health program plagued by racism
OTTAWA - A group of Black federal public servants is accusing the government of racism, and is threatening to pull out of the development of a mental health action plan meant for Black workers. The Fe...
Dec 14, 2022
Chief science adviser releases recommendations to combat long-COVID
OTTAWA - Canada's chief science adviser is encouraging the government to develop a list of criteria to diagnose long-COVID and guidelines for doctors to treat it. Mona Nemer released the recommendatio...
Dec 14, 2022
B.C. Lions sign co-general managers Campbell, McEvoy to extensions
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Lions have signed co-general manager and head coach Rick Campbell and co-general manager and director of football operations Neil McEvoy to contract extensions through the 2024 CF...
Dec 14, 2022
New N.S. top Mountie says public wants to keep force despite mass shooting response
HALIFAX - The RCMP's new commanding officer in Nova Scotia believes the public wants a renewed relationship with his police force despite its widely criticized response to the 2020 mass shooting. Assi...
Dec 14, 2022
Preliminary hearing scheduled for Red Deer woman charged in Woodlands County shooting
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for a Red Deer woman charged in a Woodlands County shooting last spring.Amanda Britney Ann McCarthur, 21, of Red Deer, is scheduled to find out in Whitecourt p...
Dec 14, 2022
Former Sylvan Lake mayor receives medal
A special honour has been bestowed upon a former mayor of Sylvan Lake.On December 3, 2022 former Town of Sylvan Lake Mayor Susan Samson received the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, after be...
Dec 14, 2022
Quebec COVID-19 hospitalizations top 2,000, highest level since October
MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department says there are more than 2,000 hospitalizations linked to COVID-19 across the province, the highest number since Oct. 19. Officials say 2,081 people are in hospit...
Dec 14, 2022
First Nations, governments working to establish Indigenous protected area in Manitoba
MONTREAL - Four First Nations in Manitoba are working with the provincial and federal governments to establish a new Indigenous protected area. The groups announced today at the COP15 global biodivers...
Dec 14, 2022