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Mexico posts new daily highs for pandemic cases and deaths
MEXICO CITY - Mexico posted new one-day highs for the pandemic Thursday, with 22,339 newly confirmed coronavirus infections and 1,803 deaths from COVID-19 recorded for the previous 24 hours. The recen...
Jan 21, 2021

Time, transparency needed as Biden inherits frazzled census
Battered by criticism that the 2020 census was dangerously politicized by the Trump administration, the U.S. Census Bureau under a new Biden administration has the tall task of restoring confidence in...
Jan 21, 2021

Legal review shows British Columbia can't restrict interprovincial travel: Horgan
VICTORIA - The B.C. government says a review of legal options has made it clear it cannot prevent people from travelling to the province from elsewhere in Canada. Premier John Horgan says in a stateme...
Jan 21, 2021

RCMP located searching for 28-year-old man wanted on numerous charges
The Turnor Lake RCMP announced on early on Sunday morning that 28-year-old Lennie Mervie Oneeye has been located. According to a media release, Oneeye was wanted on charges since February 2020 such as...
Jan 21, 2021

CNN, MSNBC viewers flip for Biden; Fox audience slumps
NEW YORK - Nothing illustrates the political passions of a television network's audience quite like ratings for a presidential inaugural. The 6.53 million people who watched President Joe Biden take t...
Jan 21, 2021

World leaders cheer US return to climate fight under Biden
BERLIN - World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunn...
Jan 21, 2021

McConnell seeks to push Trump impeachment trial to February
WASHINGTON - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to push back the start of Donald Trump's impeachment trial to February to give the former president time to prepare and review his ca...
Jan 21, 2021

Police search for missing snowmobiler last seen in La Ronge
UPDATE: As of 9:10 p.m. Thursday, the Saskatchewan RCMP are reporting both individuals have been found safe.-Stanley Mission RCMP are searching for a missing person who was last seen in La Ronge on Ja...
Jan 21, 2021

Fond Du Lac First Nation prepares for new election
Following an election in 2017 that was marred with controversy, and a two-month delay due to COVID-19, members of the Fond Du Lac First Nation will head back to the polls later this month.The band's g...
Jan 21, 2021

Alice Hoagland, gay-rugby godmother and 9-11 activist, dies
Alice Hoagland, a beloved figure of the gay rugby movement that her own son, Mark Bingham, helped set in motion shortly before he perished in the 2001 terrorist attacks as one of the heroes of Flight ...
Jan 21, 2021