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Canadian government grants border exemption for Olympic athlete bubbles
OTTAWA - The federal government has approved a travel exemption for Canada's Olympic hopefuls that will allow them to train on home soil without undergoing a 14-day quarantine after returning to the c...
Jun 18, 2021
Canada's cyberspy agency may have broken privacy law, intelligence watchdog says
OTTAWA - The national intelligence watchdog says Canada's cyberspy agency may have broken the law in disclosing personal information about Canadians. The Ottawa-based Communications Security Establish...
Jun 18, 2021
Konga named Firefighter of the Year
Captain Derek Konga is the La Ronge Regional Fire Department's 2020 Firefighter of the Year. "It's really nice to have the respect of my peers and the privilege to work alongside them," Konga said abo...
Jun 18, 2021
NDP launch ad campaign to boost vaccination rates in Saskatchewan's North
Northern NDP MLAs have launched a radio campaign to address vaccine hesitancy and boost COVID-19 vaccination rates. In a news release issued Friday, MLAs Buckley Belanger and Doyle Vermette stated the...
Jun 18, 2021
Saskatchewan government pledges $2 million for residential school site research
The Saskatchewan government will be financially supporting the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) as they start their research into undocumented deaths and burials on former residental ...
Jun 18, 2021
PHAC head maintains he's bound by law not to release docs on fired scientists
OTTAWA - The head of the Public Health Agency of Canada is showing no sign he's willing to release unredacted documents about the firing of two scientists at the country's highest security laboratory ...
Jun 18, 2021
Canada names 60-man preliminary roster for next month's Gold Cup
Alphonso Davies and Jonathan David highlight Canada's preliminary 60-man roster for next month's Gold Cup. The final 23-man squad will be confirmed prior to the July 2 start of the tournament's 12-cou...
Jun 18, 2021
Quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. confident Montreal can pick up where it left off in '19
Vernon Adams Jr. is getting a head start on the 2021 CFL season. The Montreal Alouettes' starting quarterback is already at his apartment in the city completing his 14-day quarantine after arriving fr...
Jun 18, 2021
NCAA memo: Emmert tells schools to act on NIL or he will
NCAA President Mark Emmert told the organization's more than 1,200 member schools Friday that he will seek temporary rules as early as July to ensure all athletes can be compensated for their celebrit...
Jun 18, 2021
Public health agency reports spike in confirmed cases of Delta variant
OTTAWA - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases attributed to the highly contagious Delta variant jumped 66 per cent in Canada this week. Canada's chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says as o...
Jun 18, 2021