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Supreme Court won't review ruling in favour of officer who refused to euthanize bears
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not review a lower-court ruling that was a victory for a conservation officer who refused to euthanize two bear cubs.Bryce Casavant was dismissed from his job...
Jan 21, 2021
B.C. Premier, health officials to discuss next steps in COVID immunization plan
VICTORIA - Health officials have called off the regular COVID-19 briefing in British Columbia as they prepare to update the province's strategy for immunization against the virus. An advisory from the...
Jan 21, 2021
University president in Maryland offers inaugural poet a job
BALTIMORE - The president of a historically Black university in Maryland was so captivated by inaugural poet Amanda Gorman's poem during President Joe Biden's inauguration that he offered her a job --...
Jan 21, 2021
Virus scuttles Glastonbury Festival for second straight year
LONDON - Britain's Glastonbury music festival has fallen victim to the coronavirus pandemic for the second year in a row. Organizers Michael Eavis and Emily Eavis said Thursday that "In spite of our e...
Jan 21, 2021
US home construction jumps 5.8% in December to 1.67 million
WASHINGTON - U.S. home construction jumped 5.8% in December to 1.67 million units, ending a strong year for home building. The better-than-expected gain followed an increase of 9.8% in November, the C...
Jan 21, 2021
TELUS pitches substantial downtown Nanaimo development
NANAIMO - Five hundred people are expected to live in a pair of market priced rental buildings planned for Fitzwilliam St., behind TELUS' central office building.The City of Nanaimo's director of deve...
Jan 21, 2021
Twin suicide bombings rock central Baghdad, at least 28 dead
BAGHDAD - Twin suicide bombings ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital Thursday, killing at least 28 people and wounding 73 others, officials said. The rare suicide bombing attack hit the B...
Jan 21, 2021
US to join global coronavirus vaccine program
GENEVA - Dr. Anthony Fauci says U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday will order the United States to support projects to deploy COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics to people in need around...
Jan 21, 2021
In wake of decision to kill Keystone XL, Biden's first foreign-leader call? Trudeau
WASHINGTON - If Joe Biden's decision to kill off Keystone XL is supposed to sound the death knell for Canada-U.S. relations, you wouldn't know it from the newly minted president's call sheet. The 46th...
Jan 21, 2021
Some provinces yet to say when jail inmates to be vaccinated against COVID-19
A director at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association believes provinces should set targets for vaccinating inmates in provincial jails - something half of jurisdictions have yet to do. The Correctio...
Jan 21, 2021