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Police say another student, 17, who was also involved in the incident, suffered a gunshot...

  WINNIPEG -- Lawyers for the Manitoba government have conceded the province’s public health orders limited people’s Charter-protected freedoms but they told a judge the measures were justified to prevent additional deaths, ICU admissions and hospitalizations amid a rapidly evolving global pandemic. “During the worst part of the second wave, for a period of 13 weeks, Manitoba implemented a temporary circuit breaker,” Michael Conner, a lawyer for the province told Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal. “And there is no dispute in this case those measures limit Charte...

A bill in the Massachusetts State Legislature spearheaded by a Harvard alum would require all students enrolled in the state’s schools and colleges — including Harvard — to complete fire safety training. The bill — which would mandate a fire safety curriculum and proficiency assessment to gauge student mastery of the material — was introduced in February by State Representative Marjorie C. Decker and State Senator Sal N. DiDomenico in their respective chambers, both Democrats who represent Harvard’s district. As of March 29, the bill has been referred to the comm...

SALT LAKE CITY — The massive Temple Square renovation has led to yet another fascinating historic discovery while work on the future of the temple continues. Officials with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Thursday published an update to the large-scale project, sharing both discoveries of old construction from when the Salt Lake Temple was completed in 1893 and updates of new components, including a new tunnel underneath North Temple in downtown Salt Lake City. Among the pieces of the old construction were square-headed nails upwards of 6 inches used to construct the temp...

Posted: May 03, 2021 3:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 3 The Church of God Restoration in Manitoba, seen from above, on Nov. 22, 2020. The church and its pastor have been fined for breaking public health orders, including in December 2020, when more than 100 people attended a service while the area was in Code Red for having a COVID-19 test-positivity rate of 40 per cent.(Submitted) Seven rural Manitoba churches hope to convince a judge that the province's lockdown measures are unjustified violations of Charter-protected freedoms of conscience, religion, expression and peaceful assembly — and ...