TORONTO – Ontario is re- porting 2,279 patients in hospital with COVID-19, including 319 people in intensive care. That’s up from 2,081 patients hospitalized and 288 people in ICUs one day ago. Health Minister Christine Elliott says 232 intensive care patients are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination […]
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WINNIPEG – A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit against the Royal Winnipeg Ballet over allegations a former teacher and photographer took intimate photos of students and released them without their consent. Lawyers for the plaintiffs say in a release that the dance company has agreed to pay […]
By Virginie Ann
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MONTREAL – Passengers who filmed themselves partying maskless aboard a chartered Sunwing Airlines flight from Montreal to Mexico last week have become pariahs and now face being stranded after two more airlines announced Wednesday they will not fly them home to Canada. Following Sunwing’s cancellation of the return charter flight […]
By Jim Bronskill
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OTTAWA – An Ottawa researcher is asking a judge to order Canada’s national archives to speed up work on his request for old RCMP records after he was told to wait at least 80 years for a response. In a notice of application to the Federal Court, Michael Dagg says […]
By Mary Clare Jalonick, Lisa Mascaro And Zeke Miller
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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden accused Donald Trump and his supporters of holding a “dagger at the throat of democracy” in a forceful speech Thursday marking the anniversary of the deadly breach of the U.S. Capitol. He warned that though it didn’t succeed, the insurrection remains a serious threat […]
By Mark Kennedy
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NEW YORK (AP) – New data from the music industry confirms what a lot of people long suspected – 2021 was a very good year for Morgan Wallen, Adele and vinyl. MRC Data’s year-end report, presented in collaboration with Billboard, showed that Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” ended 2021 as […]
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – Jennifer Garner has been named Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, based not just on her career as an actor, but also because of her record as a philanthropist and entrepreneur, the organization said Thursday. Garner, 49, will be the guest of […]
By Mike Schneider
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During the first several months of the pandemic in the U.S., Dina Levy made her young daughter and son go on walks with her three times a day. They kicked a soccer ball around at the nearby high school. The children, then 11 and 8, created an obstacle course out […]
By Jennifer Peltz
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NEW YORK (AP) – An athletic Hungarian farm dog and a tiny pet of bygone Russian aristocrats are the latest breeds in the American Kennel Club’s purebred lineup. The club announced Tuesday that it’s recognizing the Russian toy and the mudi. That means they’re eligible to compete for best in […]
Along with the New Year comes one of the longest standing traditions for ice anglers in Northwest Ontario, the start of a new lake trout season. I have spent New Year’s Day on the ice many times over the years but with the brutal cold temperatures we’ve had over the […]
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MONTREAL – Anthony Calvillo is once again a Montreal Alouette. The Alouettes announced Thursday that the Canadian Football League’s all-time leading passer has rejoined the club as quarterback coach. Calvillo played 16 of his 20 pro seasons in Montreal and was part of the team’s coaching staff from 2015 to […]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lawyers for Los Angeles County have failed to persuade a federal judge to end Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit over gruesome photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, her daughter Gianna and seven others. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter on Wednesday rejected a […]
