Canada women’s hockey team to bring experience and some young grit to Milan Olympics
The Canadian Press / nationalpost - TORONTO — Canada looked to experience and some young grit in choosing its 23-player women’s hockey roster for the Milan Cortina Olympics. Captain Marie-Philip Poulin, headed to her fifth Olympics, is one of 16 players returning from the 2022 gold-medal sq…
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Ottawa to send military to Manitoba after power outages force evacuations in First Nation
Temur Durrani / theglobeandmail - At least 200 homes in Pimicikamak are considered unlivable, while around 1,100 others are being assessed for damage
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Saskatoon hospital patient dead after altercation with security
sootoday - SASKATOON — Saskatoon police say they're investigating after a patient at the Royal University Hospital died this morning following an altercation with security.
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Calgary water main repaired but restrictions remain until testing done, city says
sootoday - CALGARY — The City of Calgary says it has finished repairs on a disastrous water main break but testing still needs to be done before it's fully operational again.
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Flu has peaked in some provinces while nationally cases remain high but ‘stable or decreased’
The Canadian Press / nationalpost - TORONTO — At least two provinces in Canada say flu activity likely peaked over the holidays, while national data shows the number of new cases remains high but stabilized by the start of the new year. The latest national influenza data released Friday acc…
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Man accused in Ryan Wedding case seeks to protect IDs of sureties, citing safety risk
John Marchesan / citynews - An Ontario man arrested in a sweep targeting alleged associates of Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding is asking the court to protect the identities of the people proposing to supervise him on bail. Lawyers representing Rolan Sokolovski made an application ahe…
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Calgary police investigate suspicious death in community of Canyon Meadows
Ken MacGillivray / globalnews - Homicide investigators were still at the scene Friday morning, a day after Calgary police were called out to a suspicious death in the southwest community of Canyon Meadows.
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Ontario sues Skills Development Fund-linked company over alleged fraud
John Marchesan / citynews - The Ontario government has filed a lawsuit against a company it contracted to run a student mental health program, alleging fraudulent misrepresentation and seeking to recoup more than $25 million in public money. Ontario alleges Keel Digital Solutions, t…
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Statistics Canada to release December jobs data
The Canadian Press / nationalobserver - Statistics Canada is set to release labour force figures for December this morning.
- Data release announcements (3)
- Economic policy forecasts (2)
- Regional employment breakdowns (4)
- Unemployment surges at 6.8% (6)
Data release announcements
Economic policy forecasts
Regional employment breakdowns
Unemployment surges at 6.8%
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Knock, knock, who's there? BC biologists identify unique sounds of eight fish species
Marissa Birnie / nationalobserver - There are grunts and growls, knocks and croaks — but the wild sounds detected by a team of British Columbia researchers don't belong to any of the province's famous forest creatures.
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