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Teenager in need of medical care missing from Alberta Children’s Hospital

The Calgary Police Service is asking for help from the public as the search for a missing teenage patient at Alberta Children’s Hospital continues. Tianna ‘TT’ Medicine Shield, 15, went missing after she left the hospital in northwest Calgary. She was last seen on Sunday around 8 p.m. Adolescents need medical attention and there are …

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Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board “Building communities of faith, hope and service” Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board “Building communities of faith, hope and service”

Three WECDSB elementary schools – St. Louis, Immaculate Conception and St. James – will be participating in the Ignite Academy, a new out-of-school solution designed to improve math and literacy skills for children between Grades 2 and 7, while providing wrap-around support for families. The new program was announced today by ProsperUs, a collective …

Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board “Building communities of faith, hope and service”
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Northview outbreak declared over

Article content Officials from the Timiskaming Health Unit ave announced the outbreak at the Northview Nursing Home has ended. The Timiskaming Health Unit worked closely with representatives from Northview Nursing Home. Northview Nursing Home took all necessary precautions to reduce the risk of infection and prevent the transmission of COVID-19. Meantime local health unit officials …

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Sexual misconduct report finds Canadian military culture ‘deficient’

Placeholder while article actions load TORONTO — Sexual misconduct allegations in the Canadian military should be exclusively investigated and prosecuted by civilian authorities, a blistering report from a former Supreme Court justice concluded Monday. The government-commissioned report from Louise Arbour, who also served as the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, came during a wave …

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Local News Interest Rate Increases Would Have “Tremendous Impact” on Provincial Budget: Coady

Rising interest rates will have a “tremendous impact” on the province’s overall budget. Finance Minister Siobhan Coady was reacting to word that the Bank of Canada will increase its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point to 1.5 per cent tomorrow. The measure, being taken to cool an overheated Canadian economy, will have an …

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Small-scale possession of illicit drugs will be decriminalized in B.C. starting next year: federal government

Adults in British Columbia will be allowed to possess small amounts of some illicit drugs starting next year, the federal government announced Tuesday. The federal government says Canadians 18 years of age and older will be able to possess up to a cumulative 2.5 grams of opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA within British Columbia. The …

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Ukraine troops hold out as Russia assaults Sievierodonetsk wasteland

A Ukrainian artillery gunner adjusts his sights after firing on Russian troops a few miles away near the village of Vuhledar, in eastern Ukraine.FINBARR O’REILLY /The New York Times News Service Ukrainian forces were holding out in the eastern industrial city of Sievierodonetsk on Tuesday, resisting Russia’s all-out assault to capture a bombed-out wasteland that …

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Saskatchewan Ministry of Health describes risk of monkeypox to residents

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health says the risk of monkeypox to the province’s residents remains low. The Public Health Agency of Canada said in a Wednesday release that there are 16 confirmed cases of the disease in Canada, all of which are in Quebec. The Canadian Press reported Wednesday that Toronto Public Health said there have …

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