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Hasidic Jews in court to challenge Quebec's COVID-19 curfew in COVID red zones
MONTREAL - The Quebec Council of Hasidic Jews is heading to court to challenge the province's COVID-19 curfew, which it says will impede religious rights after daylight time comes into effect Sunday. ...
Mar 12, 2021
No biological explanation to tie AstraZeneca vaccine to blood clots: Sharma
OTTAWA - Health Canada's chief medical adviser says there is no scientific explanation to suggest a link between the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and blood clots.Dr. Supriya Sharma says Health ...
Mar 12, 2021
Tire flies off car after lug nuts tampered with
NANAIMO - Drivers are urged to check the lug nuts of their tires before driving. Nanaimo RCMP Cst. Gary O'Brien said there are two reported incidents of lug nuts being loosened at cars parked in the S...
Mar 12, 2021
Probe faults mayor, officials for keeping Prude death secret
NEW YORK - An investigation into the official response to Daniel Prude's police suffocation death last year in Rochester, New York, is faulting the city's mayor and former police chief for keeping cri...
Mar 12, 2021
Vlhova wins slalom in Åre to reclaim overall lead
RE, Sweden - Petra Vlhova is back on course to become the first Slovakian to win skiing's overall World Cup title. Vlhova defended her first-run advantage in a slalom to claim her 20th career victory ...
Mar 12, 2021
Gunmen abduct 30 students from school in northwest Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria - Gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped at least 30 students just weeks after a similar attack in the region, authorities said Friday. The latest abduction...
Mar 12, 2021
'We're back:' public health greenlights abridged BCHL season
NANAIMO - A shortened BCHL season will begin the first week of April.The Provincial Health Office accepted the league's return to play model under it's COVID-19 safety plan with a full schedule set to...
Mar 12, 2021
Canada one step closer to being negligible-risk country for mad cow disease
OTTAWA - The federal minister of agriculture says Canada is an important step closer to being recognized as a negligible-risk country for mad cow disease. Marie-Claude Bibeau says in a news release th...
Mar 12, 2021
A peek behind the masks, precautions at the pandemic Grammys
LOS ANGELES - I have covered the Grammy Awards for the Associated Press for 15 years. But this strange year feels like the first time. Built around performances, full of singing and shouting, and with...
Mar 12, 2021
Almodóvar returns to the female universe with Penélope Cruz
NEW YORK - Pedro Almodvar exposed all his vulnerability in the semi-autobiographical film "Pain and Glory." Now he returns his focus to women not only with the short film "The Human Voice", an Oscar h...
Mar 12, 2021