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Mayor Ames Leslie announces winners of his online kids contest
While people have been cooped up in their homes during the COVID-19 situation in Canada, the Town of Battleford's Mayor Ames Leslie started an online competition for kids to help pass the time.The com...
Apr 15, 2020 Town of Battleford Mayor Ames Leslie announced online contest winners. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)

US relief checks begin arriving as economic damage piles up
WASHINGTON - Government relief checks began arriving in Americans' bank accounts as the economic damage to the U.S. from the coronavirus piled up Wednesday and sluggish sales at reopened stores in Eur...
Apr 15, 2020

Premiers don't want Emergencies Act used during COVID-19 pandemic
REGINA - Canada's premiers have sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying they do not want the Emergencies Act invoked over COVID-19. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe's office said the lette...
Apr 15, 2020

Trudeau bats away WHO questions, says Canada focused on fighting COVID-19
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused Wednesday to join the escalating global debate about the World Health Organization's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, insisting Canada remains f...
Apr 15, 2020

'What's going to happen?' Alberta teen recounts brush with death from COVID-19
OKOTOKS, Alta. - Matt Greenshields never worried about COVID-19 until he found himself thinking about death as he was being wheeled down the empty, darkened hallways of a hospital on his way...
Apr 15, 2020

Canada needs to increase testing capacity before life can return to normal: PM
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada needs a much greater capacity to test for the novel coronavirus before life can return to normal. The federal government and public health officials ...
Apr 15, 2020

New taxi company on the way
North Battleford residents will now have more choices when they look for a taxi ride in the area.City council approved an application from NB City Cab Inc. to open and operate its new business, with l...
Apr 15, 2020 North Battleford lawmakers approved a request from an applicant to open a new taxicab business in the city. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Harsh policing and big fines don't make people safer from COVID-19: criminologists
Corey Yanofsky, a data scientist living in Ottawa, took his dog out for a walk last week and ended up with an $880 fine for standing in the wrong place during the COVID-19 pan...
Apr 15, 2020

Wolfpack player James Cunningham likely laid low by virus after hamstring surgery
James Cunningham just wasn't feeling right, as if he was about to come down with something. So the Toronto Wolfpack hooker/scrum half, recovering from earlier hamstring surgery, was sent home some fiv...
Apr 15, 2020

Barker feels COVID-19 pandemic robbed XFL of time to establish a following
TORONTO - Jim Barker remains a member of a rare pro football fraternity. In 2001, Barker was the offensive co-ordinator with the Los Angeles Xtreme team that captured the first - and on...
Apr 15, 2020