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Queensway Carleton Hospital’s emergency department clinical director insists the west-end Ottawa hospital is being “more creative” with its staffing models to care for patients and maintain the emergency department open this summer. However, Brian Smith warns that it could take five to six years to repair the critical staff shortages currently plaguing hospitals in Ottawa …

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The Alberta government tabled a report from an expert panel it appointed to examine the effects of a $15 minimum wage and a possible lower wage for tipped servers. The group, chaired by University of Alberta economist Joseph Marchand, was appointed in August 2019 by Jason Copping, who was Alberta’s labor minister at the time. …

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Update 7:30pm: The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen has issued an evacuation order for all of Olalla, BC, along Highway 3A in Electoral Area G, as well as several properties south of the town . All evacuation orders are available on the regional district website. New evacuation orders have been issued as the Keremeos Creek wildfire …

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The Perseids are one of the best known meteor showers. The Perseid meteor showers are the remnants of Comet Swift-Tuttle, which passed close to Earth in 1992. Thanks to the gravity of the giant planet Jupiter, 200 meteorites can be formed per hour during the annual festival in the sky. The fact that stones turn …

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Thailand’s prime minister has ordered an investigation into a massive fire that ripped through a nightclub and killed at least 14 people. The fire broke out around 1 a.m. Friday at the Mountain B nightclub in Chonburi province’s Sattahip district, about 90 miles southeast of Bangkok. Video footage released by a rescue service showed desperate …

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Russia ready to discuss prisoner swap with US, Lavrov tells Global News Basketball star Brittney Griner sentenced to 9 years in Russian prison on drug charges CBC Sports Brittney Griner recognized with WNBA moment of silence CTV News Brittney Griner sentencing: Reactions pour in after WNBA All-Star’s 9-year sentence Global News See full coverage on …

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Cases of monkeypox are on the rise in Canada as part of an ongoing global outbreak. The viral illness, which often presents as a flu-like infection with a rash, is spread through close personal contact with those who have a symptomatic case. Vaccinations are offered to those most at risk. The World Health Organization declared …

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Jurors began deliberating around 12:30 p.m. Friday, after Judge Maya Guerra Gamble reminded them that in a default judgment against him, Jones was already found liable for defamation and “intentional infliction of emotional distress.” against Lewis’ parents, Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin. In an emotional closing argument Friday, Lewis and Heslin’s attorney, Wesley Todd Ball, …

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There was a time when Neil Gaiman didn’t want a movie or TV show made about The Sandman. Although Batman and other comic book heroes were hugely successful on the silver screen in the late 1980s and 1990s, Gaiman was reluctant to follow in their footsteps. He felt that his seminal comic book series, which …

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Is it possible to recover extinct animal species? View a higher resolution version of this infographic. Humanity has been playing with natural life for thousands of years. We’ve gotten pretty good at it too: so far, we’ve engineered bacteria to produce medicine, created crops with built-in pesticides, and even made a dog that glows in …

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