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B.C. lifts health-care mask rules as province emerges from pandemic, Henry says
VICTORIA - British Columbia is lifting pandemic restrictions like mandatory mask-wearing in health-care settings and visitor restrictions and proof of vaccination in care homes. Provincial health offi...
Apr 06, 2023
Tony Cote First Nations Winter Games returns after pandemic
It's been five years since the last Tony Cote First Nations Winter Games.That'll be changing next week when the James Smith Cree Nation hosts the games in Saskatoon. Thousands of athletes aged 12 to 1...
Apr 06, 2023
US would bar full ban on trans athletes but allow exceptions
WASHINGTON (AP) - Schools and colleges across the U.S. would be forbidden from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes under a proposal released Thursday from the Biden administration, but team...
Apr 06, 2023
US would bar full ban on trans athletes but allow exceptions
WASHINGTON (AP) - Schools and colleges across the U.S. would be forbidden from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes under a proposal released Thursday from the Biden administration, but team...
Apr 06, 2023
No evidence of homicide in case of woman's remains found in Winnipeg landfill: police
Winnipeg police say they have no evidence to suggest the death of an Indigenous woman whose body was found in a landfill Monday was a homicide. Police chief Danny Smyth says 33-year-old Linda Beardy w...
Apr 06, 2023
Rockets fired at Israel from Lebanon raise risk of conflict
JERUSALEM (AP) - Militants in Lebanon fired a heavy barrage of rockets at Israel on Thursday, the Israeli military said, forcing people across Israel's northern frontier into bomb shelters, wounding a...
Apr 06, 2023
Wildfire threat grows as Florida drought gets steadily worse
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - The threat of wildfires is growing in Florida over the coming weeks as more than half the state is experiencing severe to extreme drought conditions likely to persist until...
Apr 06, 2023
High court: Trans girl can run girls track in West Virginia
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia to continue competing on her middle school's girls sports teams while a lawsuit over a state ban...
Apr 06, 2023
Snake on a plane! South African pilot finds cobra under seat
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - A pilot in South Africa made a hasty emergency landing after discovering a highly venomous cobra hiding under his seat. Rudolf Erasmus had four passengers on board the l...
Apr 06, 2023
Alberta premier says politicians cannot talk to accused, but her call was OK
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, a week after she was overheard on a leaked phone call offering to help an accused with his upcoming criminal trial, says MLAs and cabinet ministers are not f...
Apr 06, 2023