Canadian actor Wilma Pelly, who was best known for her role as Elsie Tsa Che on North of 60, died in Calgary at the age of 83 on Dec. 28. Her family says she leaves a legacy of hard work and perseverance.
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COVID-19 found on 7 international flights bound for Calgary, data shows
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Masked U.S. rapper MF Doom dead at 49
MF Doom, a masked rapper who awed hip-hop fans and fellow musicians with intricate wordplay, has died. He was 49.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsAlberta municipal affairs minister took Hawaii vacation, sources say
CBC News has learned that Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard spent time this month in Hawaii on a family vacation, despite a direction from the federal and provincial governments to avoid non-essential travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsBrexit now a reality as U.K. completes economic separation from European Union
Britain has completed its economic break from the European Union after the Brexit transition period expired, ending its 48-year partnership with the trading bloc and starting a new and more distant relationship with its continental neighbours.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsFirst long-term care home residents in Ontario receive Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
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More details about COVID-19 testing for air travellers expected today
Transport Minister Marc Garneau is expected to provide more details today about the new requirement for air passengers to test negative for COVID-19 before entering Canada.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsQuebec COVID-19 cases shoot past 200,000 to end 2020 reporting a record 2,819 in 24 hours
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Ontario finance minister says pandemic vacation was 'dumb, dumb mistake,' hopes Ford won't fire him
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Montreal woman asks why only Black hair products deemed 'non-essential' in drugstore
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Ontario shatters single-day record once again with more than 3,300 new COVID-19 cases
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Ontario finance minister set to return today from controversial Caribbean vacation
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is expected to have a "very tough conversation" with his finance minister today over a controversial Caribbean vacation.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsDFO has a new plan for northern cod stocks. It doesn't include more fishing
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has released its plan to boost northern cod numbers — a plan that the fisheries union in Newfoundland and Labrador blasts as being more about resettling communities than rebuilding stocks.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsThe National for December 30, 2020
The National for December 30: Ottawa says travellers coming to Canada will have to get a COVID-19 test first. Plus, a look back on 2020.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsHow P.E.I.'s farming and fishing industries are adapting to the new normal
For good and ill, fishing and farming on P.E.I. are already different because of climate change.
via CBC | Top Stories News10 people still missing in Norway after landslide in residential area
Norwegian rescuers deployed drones and dogs to negotiate unstable clay soil in a search for 10 people still missing on Thursday after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings the previous day.
via CBC | Top Stories News2020 is ending, but New Year's celebrations look different this year
This New Year's Eve is being celebrated like no other, with pandemic restrictions limiting crowds and many people bidding farewell to a year they'd prefer to forget.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsMoms are welcoming the first wave of 'coronial' babies — but experts say to expect fewer births
Nearly 10 months after Alberta's first presumptive COVID-19 case was confirmed, mothers across the province are giving birth to what some have dubbed "the coronial generation."
via CBC | Top Stories NewsDildo was hoping to cash in on a post-Kimmel boom — then came the pandemic
Sulagna Sanyal and Rajesh Menon opened the first Indian restaurant in the coastal Newfoundland village of Dildo, tapping into a tourism boom heightened by interest from U.S. talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel. But COVID-19 has stopped the community's plans cold.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsMajority of borrowed books across Ontario libraries in 2020 weren't published this year
In a year dominated by a global pandemic and American politics, some might find it fitting that the library book most likely to be checked out across Ontario was a hopeful memoir written by the former first lady of the United States.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsThe dark side: 2020 was a boom year for horror on-screen — and that's no accident
Horror landed in 2020 both instructing and judging, as well as thriving. It's a boom time for the genre, which entered its renaissance only a few years ago and is likely to only be helped by a global pandemic.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsChina gives conditional approval to homegrown Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine
Chinese health regulators said Thursday that they have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm.
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B.C. mom who gave birth in a coma due to COVID-19 discharged from hospital
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Yukon issues recall for jerky with psychoactive ingredient while RCMP launch probe
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B.C. mom describes 'surreal experience' meeting new son after waking up from COVID-related coma
A B.C. mom who gave birth while in an induced coma because of COVID-19 says she was released from hospital just in time to spend Christmas at home with her family.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsOttawa to increase monitoring of travellers in quarantine and at airports: Quebec health minister
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'He deserves better': Father speaks out after 14-year-old shot dead in Surrey
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British lawmakers approve post-Brexit trade deal with European Union
Britain's House of Commons has voted resoundingly to approve a trade deal with the European Union, paving the way for an orderly break with the bloc that will finally complete the U.K.'s years-long Brexit journey.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsIran allocates $150K US payments to families of Ukraine crash victims
Iran has created a compensation fund to pay families of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was shot down by Iranian forces outside Tehran last January, the president announced Wednesday.
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