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Orillia Soldiers Memorial Hospital fills numerous nursing positions with job fair
Orillia's Soldiers Memorial Hospital looked to bolster its nursing staff on Saturday.
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Baseball Ontario held the clinic for girls ages 8 to 16 as the organization moved towards bringing equity in baseball.
Barrie legion honours peacekeepers with 19th annual luncheon
The annual luncheon coincided with the anniversary of Canada's participation in UN peacekeeping, marking 75 years of service.
Ontario to end program providing health care to uninsured residents
The Ontario government will be ending a program that provides health-care services to uninsured people at the end of the month, something doctors say is extremely concerning for marginalized communities.
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Ontario has reached a funding agreement with optometrists that increases some payments to them, but reduces some coverage for patients, including less frequent general eye exams for seniors.
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An explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania on Friday killed two people and left five people missing, authorities said. One person was pulled from the rubble overnight.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans on Saturday to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, a warning to the West as it steps up military support for Ukraine.
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The top commander of Ukraine's military said Saturday that his forces were pushing back against Russian troops in the long and grinding battle for the town of Bakhmut, and British military intelligence says Russia appears to be moving to a defensive strategy in eastern Ukraine.
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A defiant and incendiary Donald Trump, facing a potential indictment, held the first rally of his 2024 presidential campaign Saturday in Waco, Texas, a city made famous by deadly resistance against law enforcement.
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