Alberta Health Services says 98 per cent of beds open, closures no cause for alarm
EDMONTON — Alberta Health Services says the current spate of hospital bed closures is minimal, not unusual and isn't affecting patient care. But the United Nurses of Alberta and the Opposition NDP says that data doesn’t match the reality on the
Alberta Health Services says 98 per cent of beds open, closures no cause for alarm
EDMONTON — Alberta Health Services says the current spate of hospital bed closures is minimal, not unusual and isn't affecting patient care. Deb Gordon, who is the chief operating officer for AHS, says more than 98 per cent of beds in
Baltimore’s mayor unveils new violence prevention plan
BALTIMORE (AP) — Aiming to treat gun violence as a public health crisis, Baltimore’s mayor on Friday unveiled a five-year violence reduction plan for the U.S. city where violent crime rates have remained high since a 2015 surge.
Yellen outlines to Congress emergency measures on debt limit
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress on Friday that she will start taking emergency measures next week to keep the government from an unprecedented default on the national debt, warning that a default would cause “irreparable...
Brazil reopens amid looming threat from delta variant
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — With the number of coronavirus deaths starting to recede in Brazil, a renewed sense of optimism has led state governors to roll back restrictions, soccer fans are starting to return to stadiums, and the mayor of
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the
Judge: NYC mayor won’t testify in Eric Garner inquiry
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio won’t have to testify in a judicial inquiry into the 2014 police chokehold death of Eric Garner, a judge ruled Friday, dashing a long-running quest by Garner’s relatives to
Plans for largest US solar field north of Vegas scrapped
OVERTON, Nev. (AP) — The push to transition from carbon-emitting fuel sources to renewable energy is hitting a roadblock in Nevada, where solar power developers are abandoning plans to build what would have been the United States' largest array of
Activist who helped desegregate Birmingham library dies
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Black Army veteran who helped peacefully desegregate an Alabama city's library with a sit-in protest in 1963 has died, according to the library and an obituary published by his family.
Symmetry not guaranteed on border policy: envoy
WASHINGTON — Just because Canada and the United States worked closely together to restrict travel across their shared border doesn't mean they were always going to move in lockstep when the time came to reopen it, Ottawa's envoy to Washington