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Puppet-Making and Wood-Carving: MAG to host local Artists-in-Residence
The Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery (MAG) is welcoming two local Artists-in-Residence this July as part of their exhibit programming for "A Prairie Vernacular: Folk & Contemporary Art Narratives of ...
Jul 12, 2021
The Royal St. John's Regatta is back this year — but without the lakeside party
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The 203rd Royal St. John's Regatta will go ahead this year after the COVID-19 pandemic kept rowers away from the lake last summer, but the event will be a completely different exper...
Jul 12, 2021
National strategy calls on Canada to address Inuit food security crisis
OTTAWA - A new strategy from Canada's Inuit organization calls on the federal government to support a national Inuit food security strategy to address what it calls a national public health crisis. Th...
Jul 12, 2021
Judge overseeing church challenge of COVID-19 restrictions says he was followed
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba judge overseeing a court challenge of public health rules by seven churches says he's deeply troubled a private investigator was hired to follow him with the intent of finding in...
Jul 12, 2021
CAPTURE camera registry expands throughout central Alberta
RCMP detachments around central Alberta have teamed up to expand a camera registry program launched in Red Deer two years ago.The program is called CAPTURE (Community Assisted Policing Through the Use...
Jul 12, 2021
Carolyn Rogers named new senior deputy at Bank of Canada
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is naming Carolyn Rogers as its new senior deputy governor. Rogers is a former assistant superintendent at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. She h...
Jul 12, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Monday, July 12, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 10:30 a.m. Ontario is reporting 114 new COVID-19 cases today and no deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Health officials...
Jul 12, 2021
Ottawa adds national security risk assessments to federal research funding
OTTAWA - The federal government is setting new guidelines that work national security considerations into funding criteria for university research. Innovation Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says ...
Jul 12, 2021
Pfizer to discuss COVID-19 vaccine booster with US officials
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pfizer says it plans to meet with top U.S. health officials Monday to discuss the drugmaker's request for federal authorization of a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine as President J...
Jul 12, 2021
Coronavirus infects vaccinated leader at Florida condo site
MIAMI (AP) - A vaccinated Miami-Dade county commissioner who helped other local officials in Surfside following the collapse of a condominium building announced that he and his chief of staff tested p...
Jul 12, 2021