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Some Saskatchewan Sunwing passengers make it home, others make their own way back
By The Canadian Press on January 2nd, 2023
REGINA – Some Sunwing travellers from Saskatchewan say the airline is leaving them at airports in other provinces, while another says her flight from Mexico that made it to Regina had dozens of empty seats. “We piled 11 people into three cars with 11 pieces of luggage and travelled through the night and arrived home,” ... Read More »
1 responseRansomware group LockBit apologizes saying ‘partner’ was behind SickKids attack
By The Canadian Press on January 2nd, 2023
TORONTO – A global ransomware operator has issued a rare apology after it claims one of its “partners” was behind a cyberattack on Canada’s largest pediatric medical centre. LockBit, a ransomware group the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has called one of the most active and destructive in the world, posted a brief statement on ... Read More »
1 responseBirth of nine calves sparks hope for endangered North Atlantic right whales
By The Canadian Press on January 2nd, 2023
FREDERICTON – A scientist who studies the endangered North Atlantic right whale is cautiously optimistic about the current breeding season after nine calves were spotted during its first few weeks. Moira Brown, senior scientist with the Canadian Whale Institute, says fewer than 100 of the 340 surviving animals in the waters along Canada’s eastern coast ... Read More »
1 responseTwo Montreal teenagers assaulted after meeting to conduct transaction arranged online
By The Canadian Press on January 2nd, 2023
Montreal police say they are investigating after a 16-year-old and a 19-year-old were assaulted after a meeting arranged on social media to conduct a transaction in the city’s suburban LaSalle borough. Police say the teens were with three friends, all under 20, when they went to the meeting shortly before midnight. Police say a dispute ... Read More »
1 responseConvoy organizer says plans to stage a 2023 protest in Winnipeg are off
By The Canadian Press on January 2nd, 2023
OTTAWA – Freedom Convoy 2.0 appears to be a bust. Canada Unity, one of the anti-government protest groups behind the protests that headlined much of last year, is calling off its plans to restage the event this February. Canada Unity founder James Bauder initially planned to bring a four-day blockade to Ottawa but then said ... Read More »
1 responseAn activist in office: Steven Guilbeault’s first year as environment minister
By Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press on January 2nd, 2023
OTTAWA – Five days after Steven Guilbeault was appointed Canada’s environment minister in October 2021, he headed to Scotland for the annual United Nations climate talks being held in Glasgow. But Guilbeault, who says he prefers “trains to planes whenever possible,” would only agree to fly as far as London. His team made the remaining ... Read More »
1 response‘Big year’ for pharmacists with new prescriptive powers, drug shortages: association
By Amy Smart, The Canadian Press on January 2nd, 2023
VANCOUVER – In a year when pharmacists have stickhandled children’s drug shortages and an extra-busy flu shot season, you’d think they might balk at the news in Ontario and B.C. that their prescriptive powers are being expanded. Yet those in the field say the added responsibilities may make their jobs more fulfilling – so long ... Read More »
1 responseExperts question Ottawa’s negative COVID-19 test for air travellers from China
By Hina Alam, The Canadian Press on January 1st, 2023
Canada’s requirement of a negative COVID-19 test of travellers from China will not help in preventing new variants or the spread of the virus, say experts. Kerry Bowman, assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, called the requirement “absolutely a political move, and not based on science at this point.” “This ... Read More »
1 responsePremiers’ New Year’s messages talk economic improvement, health care, cost of living
By The Canadian Press on January 1st, 2023
VANCOUVER – Premiers across the country used their New Year’s messages to emphasize everything from housing and affordability to healthy lifestyles. In his first New Year’s message as premier of British Columbia, David Eby says he’s honoured to celebrate the successes of 2022 “including the remarkable economic recovery in our province as we come out ... Read More »
1 response11 Hydro-Québec customers who lost power in winter storm yet to be reconnected
By The Canadian Press on January 1st, 2023
MONTREAL – Hydro-Québec says almost all of its customers who lost power in a Dec. 23 winter storm have now been reconnected. Hydro spokesman Francis Labbé says 11 clients who lost power in the storm still don’t have electricity, after nearly 100 were reconnected earlier in the day. He says all primary residences that lost ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s COVID-19 travel restrictions for China a ‘political move,’ says expert
By The Canadian Press on January 1st, 2023
An expert says Canada’s requirement of a negative COVID-19 test of travellers from China will not help in preventing new variants or the spread of the virus. Kerry Bowman, assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, calls the requirement a political move. The federal government said Saturday that people coming in ... Read More »
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