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RED DEER, Alta. — Police say the organizer of a pro-Trump rally in Red Deer, Alta., has been charged for ignoring public health rules. RCMP say in a news release that they were called around noon Wednesday to a protest near City Hall Park.

VANCOUVER — Marcia Carr returned to nursing during the first wave of the pandemic after four years in retirement and now wants to "hit the ground running" to help vaccinate as many people as possible.

OTTAWA — It has been 66 years since Canada and Iran established diplomatic ties.

OTTAWA — The federal government is pushing back against ongoing American tariffs on Canadian solar products.

TORONTO — A consensus appears to have developed that educating reluctant health-care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is better than trying to force them to get the shots.

FREDERICTON — A national civil liberties group is launching a legal action against New Brunswick in order to increase abortion access in the province.

OTTAWA — Canada's special adviser on the Iranian military's downing of a passenger jet one year ago this week is rejecting Tehran's offer to pay $150,000 to the families of those killed in the tragedy.

OTTAWA — The Canadian military's surgeon general says the Canadian Armed Forces have received enough doses of the Moderna vaccine to immunize 1,200 members against COVID-19. Maj.-Gen.

Pedram Mousavi sat with the other passengers on Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752 as it remained parked on the tarmac south of Iran's capital, Tehran, about an hour behind schedule in the pre-dawn darkness. It was Jan. 8, 2020.

To the uninitiated, they look like chipped rocks. To Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, they look like two-million-year-old messages from the dawn of human technology.