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Lawmaker apologizes after ejection at HS basketball game
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A top Tennessee House Republican lawmaker has apologized for losing his temper and being ejected from watching a high school basketball game after a confrontation with a refere...
Jan 05, 2022
Supersized shopping spree on the horizon for Nanaimo lotto winner
NANAIMO - The new year is going to bring a new wardrobe for Johanna Rossetto.The Nanaimo woman is the latest lucky lotto winner on the mid-Island after winning $500,000 from the Oct. 29 Lotto Max draw...
Jan 05, 2022
More than half of Canada's promised vaccine donations still to come
OTTAWA - Canada has delivered about one-quarter of the direct vaccine doses it has promised to help less wealthy countries and can't say when more doses will go out the door. In 2021 Canada promised t...
Jan 05, 2022
Iran snubs another deadline in PS752 crash as families call for action
OTTAWA - Iran has snubbed yet another deadline set by Canada and its allies to negotiate a settlement for the families of those killed when its military shot down a passenger jet two years ago. And th...
Jan 05, 2022
Bring back hazard pay for supermarket workers facing extra risks from Omicron: NDP MP
OTTAWA - Grocery stores are being urged to reinstate hazard pay for workers facing extra health and safety risks from the highly contagious Omicron variant. The federal NDP's critic for economic devel...
Jan 05, 2022
Ontario excluding student athletes from indoor play a 'disservice': university group
OTTAWA - The group representing university athletics in Ontario says their student athletes not being counted among those allowed to play in indoor facilities is a "disservice" to their abilities and ...
Jan 05, 2022
Gaps in U.S. social fabric wider than ever 12 months after Trump-fuelled Capitol riot
WASHINGTON - Twenty years ago, an attack from outside its borders brought the United States together. Twelve months after Jan. 6, 2021, an attack from within continues to tear it apart. Thursday marks...
Jan 05, 2022
US hospitals seeing different kind of COVID surge this time
Hospitals across the U.S. are feeling the wrath of the omicron variant and getting thrown into disarray that is different from earlier COVID-19 surges. This time, they are dealing with serious staff s...
Jan 05, 2022
Conservatives ask privacy czar to probe pandemic-related use of mobile location data
OTTAWA - A Conservative MP is asking Canada's privacy commissioner to investigate federal reliance on data from mobile devices to understand travel patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter t...
Jan 05, 2022
UPDATE: additional COVID19 cases linked to Nanaimo long-term care home outbreak
UPDATE: Island Health confirmed three additional COVID-19 cases linked to the Eden Gardens long-term care home.On Thursday, Jan 6 the health authority revealed two additional resident cases and one mo...
Jan 05, 2022