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Extended Christmas break for B.C. students due to rapid spread of Omicron variant
NANAIMO - B.C. students will be away from classrooms longer than planned as officials grapple with rising Omicron-fuelled COVID-19 cases.Education minister Jennifer Whiteside said in a news conference...
Dec 29, 2021
CP NewsAlert: B.C. delays return to class for most students until Jan. 10 over COVID
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is delaying the full return to classrooms in January to allow public health officials to assess the impact of the COVID-19 Omicron variant and give school staff time to im...
Dec 29, 2021
Border agency closes two Atlantic offices due to COVID-19 infections, close contacts
OTTAWA - Canada's border agency said it is temporarily closing two ports of entry in the Atlantic region due to COVID-19. The Canada Border Services Agency said the affected offices are in Bathurst, N...
Dec 29, 2021
Retired VIU president receives Order of Canada designation
NANAIMO - He's well known for reconciliation efforts and advancing Vancouver Island University into a leading institution - now he's a recipient of one of the country's highest honours.Dr. Ralph Nilso...
Dec 29, 2021
Canada's bobsled team places 13 team members in COVID-19 protocols
SIGULDA, Latvia - Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton has placed 10 of its athletes and three staff members into COVID-19 protocols. A spokesman from the national sport organization confirmed the outbreak on We...
Dec 29, 2021
Canucks forwards Boeser, Di Giuseppe added to NHL's COVID protocol
Vancouver Canucks forwards Brock Boeser and Phillip Di Giuseppe and a member of the team's support staff have been added to the NHL's COVID-19 protocol list hours before the team was scheduled to retu...
Dec 29, 2021
Plenty of Canadian content on display in February UFC cards
Featherweight (Mean) Hakeem Dawodu is one of four Canadians lined up for a UFC Fight Night card Feb. 5 in Las Vegas. Middleweight Marc-Andre (PowerBar) Barriault, flyweight Malcolm (X) Gordon and bant...
Dec 29, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell convicted in Epstein sex abuse case
NEW YORK (AP) - The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The verdict capped a monthlon...
Dec 29, 2021
Toronto preparing to redeploy hundreds of staff amid COVID-19 surge
City of Toronto officials say they are preparing to redeploy hundreds of staff to support critical and essential services in response to a surge in new COVID-19 cases fuelled by the highly contagious ...
Dec 29, 2021
World Junior Hockey Championship cancelled
EDMONTON - Amid rising COVID-19 cases among players and cancelled/forfeited games, the ongoing World Junior Hockey Championship in Edmonton and Red Deer, AB is cancelled.The announcement from the Inte...
Dec 29, 2021