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Truck convoy takes up positions around Parliament
The first trucks in a convoy organized to protest the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border big-rig drivers arrived in the capital Friday. Several protesters said that though the movement started in support of mandates for truckers, the message has resonated with other people opposed to vaccine mandates.
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Companion: Trucker-Protest
Category: News
Time Published: 4:30 p.m. ET Friday, Jan. 28
Calgary man sentenced in hit-and-run death of police officer
The passenger in a car that was involved in the hit-and-run death of Calgary Police officer Sergeant Andrew Harnett has been sentenced to five years in prison. Amir Abdulrahman entered a guilty plea to manslaughter in December.
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Companion: Calgary-Cop-Killed
Category: News
Time Published: 3:15 p.m. ET Friday, Jan. 28
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WINNIPEG _ Manitoba Health Minister Audrey Gordon, Dr. Brent Roussin, chief provincial public health officer, and Dr. David Matear, health system co-lead give COVID-19 update. (via livestream, expected next)
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NACI recommends boosters for some teens
Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says only adolescents at high risk of severe outcomes should get booster shots. She says there is still data to come in but is hopeful we’re on the downward slope of the Omicron wave.
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Companion: COVID-Cda
Category: News
Time Published: 1:00 p.m. ET Friday, Jan. 28
O’Toole to meet with truckers coming to Ottawa in convoy
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says the unvaccinated truckers rolling into Ottawa is a “symbol” of the frustration they feel toward Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his pandemic policies like vaccine mandates. He also denounced individuals involved in the convoy who are pushing extremist ideas.
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Companion: Trucker-Protest
Category: News
Time Published: 8:22 p.m. ET Thursday, Jan. 27
Quebec to take 'week by week' approach to easing COVID-19 restrictions
Quebec to take “week by week” approach to easing COVID-19 restrictions as hospitalizations fall, interim public health director says.
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Companion: COVID-Que
Category: News
Time Published: 8:00 p.m. ET Thursday, Jan. 27
Mounties identify bodies of family from India found dead near U.S. border
RCMP are asking anyone who may have encountered a family from India whose bodies were found frozen in Manitoba near the Canada-U.S. border to come forward. Police are looking to build a timeline of what happened to the Patel family from when they arrived in Toronto until their death in Manitoba less than a week later.
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Companion: MBA-Border-Deaths
Category: News
Time Published: 5:00 p.m. ET Thursday, Jan. 27
Crowds show support for Atlantic truck convoy heading to Ottawa
Hundreds of people waving signs and Canadian flags lined the sides of the Trans-Canada highway and an overpass in Lincoln, N.B., to show their support for a convoy of trucks from Atlantic Canada headed to Ottawa to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
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Companion: Trucker-Protest
Category: News
Time Published: 4:15 p.m. ET Thursday, Jan. 27
Crowd gathers to cheer on trucker convoy in GTA
A large crowd gathered outside a mall north of Toronto on Thursday as a group of local truckers prepared to join a convoy to Ottawa in protest of the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truck drivers. Mike Fabinski, a truck driver from Barrie, Ont., said the vaccine mandate means he won't be able to work cross-border routes any more.
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Companion: Trucker-Protest
Category: News
Time Published: 3:50 p.m. ET Thursday, Jan. 27
Four dead in B.C. home from one family, police say
Police confirm the two men and two women who were found dead at a home after a shooting in Richmond, B.C., were from the same family. Investigators say the four people were found on Tuesday, but they have confirmed the shootings happened on Monday evening.
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Companion: Targeted-Shooting-BC
Category: News
Time Published: 3:30 p.m. ET Thursday, Jan. 27
Trudeau delivers remarks to caucus while in isolation
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered opening remarks at the Liberal national winter caucus retreat while isolating after a COVID-19 exposure. He told MPs that Liberals are doing everything they can to encourage people to get vaccinated to protect Canadians' health, economy and freedom.
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Companion: COVID-Trudeau
Category: News
Time Published: 2:50 p.m. ET Thursday, Jan. 27
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