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• 'Canada's hockey dad': Funeral for Walter Gretzky held in Brantford, Ont.

  The funeral service for Walter Gretzky, 'Canada's hockey dad,' was held in Brantford, Ont. on Saturday.

  

• Arson charges pending against woman following west Edmonton house fire

  Arson charges are pending against a woman following a house fire in west Edmonton on Friday evening.

  

• Central Edmonton residents rally against plan to build crematorium

  About 60 residents of a central Edmonton community rallied on Saturday in opposition to a plan that would see a crematorium built in their Prince Rupert neighbourhood.

• First case of COVID-19 U.K. variant detected in an Alberta acute care centre

  The province has announced that a case of COVID-19 linked to the Westlock Healthcare Centre has been confirmed to be a case of the U.K. variant.

• Use it or lose it: Alberta Parks calls out anyone attempting to re-sell camping reservations

  After more than 27,000 campsite reservations were made through the Alberta Parks website in just over 24 hours, there are rumours of an illicit trade taking place.

• Man recovering after early morning downtown stabbing

  A 37-year-old man is recovering after an early morning stabbing downtown.

• Some pharmacies in Alberta now administering COVID-19 vaccines

  They've been administering the flu shot for years, and now pharmacists at 100 pharmacies in Edmonton, Red Deer and Calgary are doling out COVID-19 vaccines.

• One year later: Why Canada's COVID-19 crisis is being called a 'senicide'

  March 8th 2021 marks one year since Canada's first death from COVID-19, a senior in a long-term care facility in British Columbia. Since then 55 per cent of all deaths have been long-term care residents. It has been described as a senicide: the killing of the elderly or their abandonment to death.

• Milder reinfection may follow severe bouts of COVID-19, study suggests

  One serious bout of COVID-19 may not be enough to keep you from getting sick a second time, a new case study suggests.

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  INTERACTIVE | Nine months after the pandemic arrived, births fell sharply: data

  Nine months after the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in North America, births in Quebec and B.C. fell far below normal levels, statistics show. If the same pattern holds true nationally, Canada would be about 2,900 births short of a normal December, and 2,300 births short of a normal January. Read more on CTVNews.ca.

• Canada vowed to protect its Indigenous women. But they are still being blamed for their own deaths

  February marked the culmination of a nearly decade-long legal saga that raised national questions about how Canada treats Indigenous women. Cindy Gladue, a 36-year-old Canadian Cree-Métis mother of three, bled to death in a hotel bathtub almost a decade ago.

• Alta. reports 411 COVID-19 infections a year after its first case

  On March 5, 2020, Alberta reported its first case of COVID-19. On the same day a year later, the province added 411 infections of the disease it now knows so well.