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Fri, 4 Jun 2021 12:40:30 EDT
Canada secures more Pfizer shots as focus shifts to second doses
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced today that the government will buy three million more vaccine shots from Pfizer than originally planned — an effort to secure more of the product that has bec...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 12:57:03 EDT
Fully vaccinated rotational workers will no longer need to self-isolate upon entry to N.S.
Effective Tuesday, rotational workers who have received both doses of a vaccine will no longer need to self-isolate upon entering the province, but they will need to continue to be tested. ...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 11:05:51 EDT
Premier rejects calls to apologize to N.B. doctor after COVID-19-related charge withdrawn
The defence team for Dr. Jean-Robert Ngola is calling for an “unequivocal apology” from New Brunswick’s premier after the Crown dropped its charge against the family doctor who had been blamed a...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 18:08:08 EDT
Foster care is modern-day residential school system: Inuk MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq
In the wake of the tragic reported discovery of an unmarked burial site in Kamloops, B.C., the Liberals are facing tough questions about ongoing harms being suffered by Indigenous children in the chil...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 11:59:43 EDT
Injunction granted against 2nd rodeo protesting Alberta's COVID-19 restrictions
A judge in Calgary has granted an injunction for Alberta Health Services to block a weekend rodeo that was planned in protest of COVID-19-related public health restrictions, dismissing the organizer...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 15:32:58 EDT
'Natural climate solutions' are available to help Canada meet emissions targets, new study says
Canada could reach one-third of its greenhouse gas reduction targets by making better use of its vast forests, prairies and wetlands, says a report by more than three dozen scientists.

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 12:48:07 EDT
Energy Regulator orders Trans Mountain to stop tree clearing
Canada Energy Regulator said it issued the order to immediately stop all clearing activity "to prevent harm to nesting birds in the pipeline project's right of way and to ensure Trans Mountain is corr...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 07:12:31 EDT
'We're going to find them' — searching for the lost children of St. John's residential school
The federal government's promise to search former residential school sites for unmarked graves has Indigenous communities surrounding Chapleau, Ont., hopeful that the haunting questions about children...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 10:05:43 EDT
Economy lost 68,000 jobs in May, unemployment rate rose slightly to 8.2%
Canada's labour market shed 68,000 jobs last month as tighter public health restrictions continued or were introduced in many regions of the country to slow the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Wealthy KPMG clients continued to dodge taxes for years after CRA detected offshore 'sham'
In 2010, Canada Revenue Agency auditors unearthed a scheme they called a “sham” that ultra-rich Canadians were using to dodge taxes. But previously unreported court records obtained by CBC’s The...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 06:00:00 EDT
P.E.I. couple who used medically assisted dying 'went out on their own terms,' says family
The obituary last week may have caught some people's attention: Bob Wilson, 71, and his wife Margi, 73, died last week on the same day at Charlottetown's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. They planned it that...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Nursing homes with repeated violations continue to break law, despite Ontario's promise to crack down
After a year that revealed the cracks in Ontario's long-term care system and saw the government promise changes, some repeat offenders continue to be cited by provincial inspectors for serious violati...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 05:00:00 EDT
Mi'kmaw chief sees better future through MMIWG action plan
Spurred on by the pain from her own family tragedy, Annie Bernard-Daisley has spent the past few years fighting for justice for her cousin and all Indigenous women and girls.

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 07:40:50 EDT
Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Friday
Manitoba's battle with a third wave of COVID-19 is putting continued pressure on the province and its health-care system, with a senior health official stating Friday that public health orders were un...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 10:03:05 EDT
Liberal Party triggers 'electoral urgency' clause to speed up nominating candidates
The Liberal Party's national campaign co-chairs have declared a "state of electoral urgency," a procedural move that will allow the party to speed up the nomination processes for local candidates ahea...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 04:30:00 EDT
Tears of joy: 'Homesick' N.L. expats making plans to finally return home
Newfoundlanders and Labradorians scattered throughout the rest of the country are excited about the prospect of finally coming home.

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 10:59:32 EDT
Jets hope to stay afloat until Mark Scheifele returns from suspension
The 2020-21 Stanley Cup playoffs were shaping up as Mark Scheifele’s time to further establish himself as an elite centreman. But now, he’s on the sidelines after the NHL Department of Player Safe...

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 05:19:27 EDT
Ottawa Amber Alert ends with child found safe
Ottawa police say the child that was the subject of an Amber Alert Friday morning has been found safe. One person is in police custody.

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 10:14:45 EDT
Does Canada need another pipeline, feds ask days after Biden cancels Keystone XL
Federal officials were asking themselves how many pipelines does Canada really need in the days after U.S. President Joe Biden cancelled Keystone XL.

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 04:00:00 EDT
How residential school trauma of previous generations continues to tear through Indigenous families
The last of the residential schools in Canada closed in 1997, but the abuse students endured within them has lasting physical and mental effects for generations.



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