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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Joe Biden is preparing to formally acknowledge that the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in modern-day Turkey more than a century ago was genocide, according to U.S. Source

TORONTO -- A new book aims to preserve history and shed light on the life children faced at an urban residential school in Winnipeg. Survivors of the Assiniboia Indian Residential School recently came together to write and publish “Did you see us? Reunion, Remembrance and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School,” which details the cultural struggle children faced at the school on a day-to-day basis, as they were forced to assimilate. Source

TORONTO -- Toronto police say they will begin a new approach to enforcing Ontario's stay-at-home order starting on Thursday. According to police, the service will launch a dedicated enforcement team in all sixteen divisions whose "primary function will be to respond to large gatherings in both indoor and outdoor settings. Source

The Canadian Alliance of Physiotherapy Regulators (CAPR) has cancelled all of its clinical exams scheduled for 2021. It's the fourth time exams have been cancelled since March 2020, leaving new graduates in B.C. and across Canada unable to become fully registered physiotherapists. Source

The Alberta government is delaying plans to vaccinate workers at Cargill's meatpacking plant in High River — a move doctors say is likely to erode the already shaky trust with a workforce that's been devastated by the pandemic. Source

TORONTO -- Hospitals in the province are required to halt all non-emergent surgeries and non-urgent procedures immediately as people with COVID-19 continue to fill up hospitals and put the healthcare system under strain amid the third wave. Source

EDMONTON -- Alberta reported 1,699 COVID-19 cases Wednesday after 18,412 tests were completed, bringing the province's positivity rate up to 9.5 per cent. The province confirmed another 1,332 variant cases in the last 24 hours, meaning about 59 per cent of cases in Alberta are variants. Source

JERUSALEM -- A missile launched from Syria struck Israel's Negev desert region early Thursday, setting off air raid sirens near the country's top-secret nuclear reactor, the Israeli military said. In response, it said it struck the missile launcher and other targets in neighbouring Syria. Source

EDMONTON -- Education Minister Adriana LaGrange says the group representing Alberta teachers is playing politics with a proposed new kindergarten to Grade 6 curriculum and isn't sincere about real bridge-building. The Alberta Teachers' Association has publicly stated the proposed learning plan is “fatally flawed, and teachers, academics and curriculum experts should work on a revised version. Source

India has been overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of new coronavirus cases daily, bringing pain, fear and agony to many lives as lockdowns have been put in place in New Delhi and other cities. India's Health Ministry reported 295,041 new cases on Wednesday and 2,023 deaths, taking total fatalities to 182,553. Source