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Adds $71 to average home’s bills

“While we don’t expect to reach capacity most days, there are days we will be close."

"With COVID-19, there's been a lot of worries with everyone. I think it's time to have some fun," Danny Getzlaf stated, adding on a serious note that ALS is a very deadly disease that comes with an average prognosis of mortality within two to five years. Getzlaf himself was diagnosed three years ago.

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau huddled with members of his cabinet on Sunday as federal opposition leaders called for a travel ban on the United Kingdom to prevent the spread of a new, more contagious strain of COVID-19.

Reports from Britain and South Africa of new coronavirus strains that seem to spread more easily are causing alarm, but virus experts say it’s unclear if that’s the case or whether they pose any concern for vaccines or cause more severe disease.

AUMA resolution asks province to open up mail-in ballots to all voters for next year's municipal election amid COVID-19 pandemic

Compiling the annual list of Top 10 Canadian weather events since 1996 hasn't left David Phillips blase. It's just that, after 24 straight years of normal or above-normal temperatures, this is what Canada can now expect.

OTTAWA — Canada's top public health officer has been a model of stoicism through the first year of COVID-19, but Dr. Theresa Tam still got a little choked up last week when the first Canadians were inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine.

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau always knew 2020 was going to be a difficult year, his first leading a minority Liberal government dependent on opposition party support for its survival.