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Mexico confirms first case of smallpox – health official smallpox

Content of the article MEXICO CITY – Mexico on Saturday reported the first confirmed case of smallpox in the country, according to Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez-Gatell. The patient was a 50-year-old permanent resident of New York who is being treated in Mexico City, Lopez-Gatell said on Twitter. “He was probably infected in the Netherlands,” …

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Toronto police charge 3 after investigation into trafficking in a minor Alberta girl

Police have charged three men following an investigation into human trafficking between Toronto and Edmonton, Alberta. Toronto police said a 17-year-old girl from Edmonton was “recruited and transferred to Toronto to work in the sex trade after the age of 18.” The girl is said to have been trafficked in Toronto for eight days in …

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Manitoba’s minimum wage must be competitive: Prime Minister Stefanson

QUEEN – Manitoba Prime Minister Heather Stefanson hints at a minimum wage increase. At a meeting of Western prime ministers in Regina, Stefanson says Manitoba has lagged behind other provinces and will take steps to address it. Stefanson did not go into details, but his progressive-conservative government has notified a bill on the minimum wage …

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Police inaction moves to the center of the investigation into Uvalde shooting

The actions – or more notably, the inaction – of a school district police chief and other law enforcement officers have become the focus of this week’s shocking school shooting investigation in Uvalde, Texas. . The delay in dealing with the shooter, who was more than an hour inside the school, could lead to discipline, …

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