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Improper training and safety found after investigation into workplace death of Nanaimo BMX champion
NANAIMO - An investigation found the Nanaimo BMX champion who tragically died during a workplace accident at a fish farm wasn't properly trained. Aidan Webber, 18, was crushed to death by a barge on M...
Jan 20, 2021
Immigrants cheered by possible citizenship path under Biden
HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Immigrants cheered President Joe Biden's plan to provide a path to U.S. citizenship for about 11 million people without legal status, mixing hope with guarded optimism Wednesday amid...
Jan 20, 2021
Biden to review Trump's changes to national monuments
SALT LAKE CITY - President Joe Biden said Wednesday he plans to review the Trump administration's downsizing of two sprawling national monuments in the American Southwest, including one on lands consi...
Jan 20, 2021
Biden puts U.S. back into fight to slow global warming
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden returned the United States to the worldwide fight to slow global warming in one of his first official acts Wednesday and immediately launched a series of climate-frien...
Jan 20, 2021
Trudeau will be first foreign leader to speak with Biden on Friday: White House
WASHINGTON - The White House says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will speak with newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday. Press secretary Jen Psaki says Trudeau will be the first foreign l...
Jan 20, 2021
B.C. man wanted in connection to Manitoba murder arrested after months on the run
SURREY, B.C. - RCMP say a man wanted in connection with a murder investigation in Winnipeg and a kidnapping and assault probe in Surrey, B.C., has been arrested after months on the run. Mounties say D...
Jan 20, 2021
High COVID-19 case counts continue for Island Health, again avoids new fatalities
NANAIMO - Island Health continues to record a surge in COVID-19 cases but was once again the only health authority to not record new fatalities. A joint statement from the province and public health c...
Jan 20, 2021
Italian police find stolen copy of Leonardo 'Salvator Mundi'
ROME - Italian police have recovered a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century "Salvator Mundi" painting of Jesus Christ that was stolen from a Naples church during the pandemic without ...
Jan 20, 2021
Comforting rituals show in media's depiction of inauguration
NEW YORK - After Air Force One took Donald Trump out of Washington, an unusual Inauguration Day quickly felt more traditional - even comforting - for people watching at home. Sure, security ringed the...
Jan 20, 2021
Lawyer says ex-royal staff will shed light on Meghan letter
LONDON - A lawyer for the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper said Wednesday that the Duchess of Sussex had no reasonable expectation of privacy for a letter she sent to her estranged father after h...
Jan 20, 2021