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The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 11:15 a.m. New Brunswick is reporting two new cases of COVID-19 and one more COVID-related death. Chief medical officer of healt...
Feb 11, 2021
Cancelling school break, delayed election: Provinces mull ways to slow COVID spread
Newfoundland and Labrador's chief electoral officer is calling for the province's election to be delayed and Ontario officials are to decide whether to cancel March break as provinces mull ways to les...
Feb 11, 2021
Closing housing gap for urban Indigenous could cost $1.4 billion a year, PBO says
OTTAWA - A new report by the parliamentary budget officer says the federal government would have to spend about $1.4 billion more a year to close a housing gap facing urban Indigenous people. That cos...
Feb 11, 2021
York United's Dominick Zator hopes Swedish loan will lead to Canada recall
Dominick Zator hopes the road to the national team leads through Sweden. That's why the 26-year-old defender is wearing the colours of Vasalunds IF these days, on loan from York United FC ahead of the...
Feb 11, 2021
Conservative election campaign ads violated copyright, CBC says
TORONTO - The CBC says Conservative election campaign ads violated Canadian copyright laws. The public broadcaster says in court that the ads did not reflect CBC's balanced news coverage or fairly rep...
Feb 11, 2021
Ottawa announces $55 m in clean tech funding for 20 companies
OTTAWA - The federal government is announcing $55 million in funding to support Canada's clean tech sector. The money will go to 20 companies across the country. It will help fund research and develop...
Feb 11, 2021
Pandemic hits Paralympic sport hard, Canadians get few chances to compete
Mollie Jepsen feels a pang knowing the world alpine ski championships are underway in Italy. The world para snow sports championship would have also started this week in Lillehammer, Norway. Jepsen, a...
Feb 11, 2021
Police search for fugitive jailed for two murders who escaped Quebec detention centre
SAINT-ALPHONSE-RODRIGUEZ, Que. - Quebec provincial police are looking for a federal inmate serving a sentence for two murders who vanished from a minimum security facility north of Montreal Wednesday ...
Feb 11, 2021
New committee or task force to coordinate tackling change of homelessness in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - The health and housing task force, chaired by Nanaimo councillors and including community representatives, has wrapped up. The task force held its last meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 10. It oper...
Feb 11, 2021
Mars mission inspires growing fan base back in China
BEIJING - Cui Tingting dyed her hair Mars red for the arrival of China's spacecraft at the planet known in Chinese as the Fire Star. "This is a great era for space, and the future of mankind lies in t...
Feb 11, 2021