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Quebec cuts funding to English college in favour of French schools ahead of election
MONTREAL - Squeezed for space, Montreal's Dawson College has for years been planning an expansion of its medical technology department that would include a clinic to serve the community and train its ...
Feb 04, 2022

COVID falling in 49 of 50 states as deaths near 900,000
With the brutal omicron wave rapidly loosening its grip, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. are falling in 49 of 50 states, even as the nation's death toll closes in on another bleak round number: 900,...
Feb 04, 2022

Police: Arrest in altercation that badly injured 49ers fan
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A suspect was arrested in an altercation that badly injured a San Francisco 49ers fan in a parking lot outside SoFi Stadium during last weekend's NFC championship game between the 4...
Feb 04, 2022

Police: Arrest in altercation that badly injured 49ers fan
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A suspect was arrested in an altercation that badly injured a San Francisco 49ers fan in a parking lot outside SoFi Stadium during last weekend's NFC championship game between the 4...
Feb 04, 2022

Ex-Montreal Canadien Chris Nilan says he lost radio job over vaccine refusal
MONTREAL - Former Montreal Canadiens forward turned radio host Chris Nilan says he was fired from TSN 690, a Montreal sports radio station, after he refused to take a COVID-19 vaccine. In a letter pos...
Feb 04, 2022

Minnesota AG to join investigation into Amir Locke shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will join the review of the fatal shooting of a Black man by Minneapolis police, authorities said Friday, shortly after police released body...
Feb 04, 2022

Ottawa police deploy 'surge' in bid to control, end 'increasingly volatile' protest
Ottawa police are deploying a "surge" of about 150 extra police officers to central areas of the city paralyzed by the protest against COVID-19 mandates that has been going on for days. Police Chief P...
Feb 04, 2022

Arbery’s shooter withdraws guilty plea on hate crime charge
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - The man convicted of murder for shooting Ahmaud Arbery withdrew his guilty plea on a federal hate crime charge Friday, electing to stand trial for a second time in the 2020 killi...
Feb 04, 2022

Celebrating Rural Ranching Women
Have you heard that Celebrating Rural Ranching Women is going virtual for 2022? Join us from 1-4:30 p.m. on Feb. 10 for our first session featuring:Calving Tips: Dystocia, Tube Feeding and Colostrum M...
Feb 04, 2022

Daily COVID can be ‘misleading,’ Shahab says when asked about premier’s comments
Though he declined to directly address comments repeated by the premier this week, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer explained why daily case numbers might mislead someone into thinking that...
Feb 04, 2022