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NANAIMO - BC Cannabis Stores (BCCS) announced they are opening their second cannabis store in Nanaimo, located at Country Club Centre.The 3,000 sq. ft. stand-alone store will have 13 full-time and aux...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the economy added 55,000 jobs in December. The agency reported the unemployment rate was 5.9 per cent for the month, compared with 6.0 per cent in November. More coming...

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With COVID-19's latest wave showing few signs of abating concerns are deepening as more and more workers in vital sectors are sidelined by the pandemic. In Ontario where the number of COVID patients i...

VANCOUVER - A pediatrician who has researched COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among parents in Canada, the United States and Israel is urging people concerned about getting their children vaccinated to tal...

MONTREAL - The heads of several Montreal homeless shelters say they're facing a crisis, as rising staff absences due to COVID-19 threaten to disrupt services during the coldest part of winter. There w...

Troy Weppler says he turned away from a post office employee in Saskatoon as he shoved a box of COVID-19 rapid tests into an envelope to send to family in British Columbia. "Why do I feel so guilty ab...

MOSCOW (AP) - The president of Kazakhstan on Friday declared that constitutional order was "mainly restored" after the country was engulfed in unprecedented unrest in recent days. "An anti-terror oper...

DENVER (AP) - Gabriel Landeskog had his fourth career hat trick and finished with four points to lead the Colorado Avalanche to a 7-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night. Landeskog scored twi...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Nikita Kucherov had a pair of nifty assists in his return from a lengthy injury during Tampa Bay's three-goal third period in the Lightning's 4-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on ...