Sarah Mills: Beckhams are latest family to have drama go public
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2021: Alberta eyes post-COVID economic rebound but faces big budget questions
EDMONTON - Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews says the goal in 2021 is to get vaccines out and put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rear-view mirror, then work to fix a battered and beleaguered economy...
Dec 27, 2020
Visit restrictions contributed to depression among care home residents: doctor
VANCOUVER - A plastic barrier sits on a table between Debbie Drew and her father during their visits in the reception area of a long-term care home where the first Canadian died of COVID-19. Nine mont...
Dec 27, 2020
'Believe in science': EU kicks off COVID-19 vaccine campaign
ROME - Doctors, nurses and the elderly rolled up their sleeves across the European Union to receive the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine Sunday in a symbolic show of unity and moment of hope for...
Dec 27, 2020
Trump signs massive measure funding government, COVID relief
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package Sunday, ending days of drama over his refusal to accept the bipartisan deal that will deliver long-sought c...
Dec 27, 2020
Ontario confirms Canada's first two cases of COVID-19 variant discovered in UK
A variant of COVID-19 that has ravaged the U.K. is now in Canada, health officials said Saturday as they announced an Ontario couple had been diagnosed with the contagious new strain. The province's a...
Dec 26, 2020
Trump golfs in Florida as COVID relief hangs in the balance
PALM BEACH, Fla. - President Donald Trump spent his Christmas golfing in Florida as a government shutdown looms and COVID relief hangs in the balance. Trump, at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach for t...
Dec 26, 2020
Virus besets Belarus prisons filled with president's critics
KYIV, Ukraine - A wave of COVID-19 has engulfed prisons in Belarus that are packed with people in custody for demonstrating against the nation's authoritarian president, and some of the protesters who...
Dec 26, 2020
'Shift in perspective:' Indigenous place names moving Canada from colonial past
EDMONTON - To Terri Suntjens, symbolism means everything. That's why she decided to get involved with the City of Edmonton's initiative to rename its wards. Suntjens, who is from the Saddle Lake Cree ...
Dec 25, 2020
A look at the Indigenous names for Edmonton's 12 wards
EDMONTON - The City of Edmonton approved a bylaw earlier this month to change the names of its 12 wards to Indigenous ones. Here are the new names and their meanings: Nakota Isga (Ward 1): (NAH'-koh-t...
Dec 25, 2020
COVID-19 has made its way to second B.C. mink farm, no workers sick
VICTORIA - Minks on a second farm in British Columbia's Fraser Valley have tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans. Three minks that died on the farm tested positive for the virus...
Dec 24, 2020
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