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Community groups and agencies offer support to the vulnerable
A number of community members and agencies are coming together to help the vulnerable during the COVID-19 crisis.Many people are donating their time and energy to prepare meals, help people shop for g...
Mar 31, 2020 Some of the community groups helping those needing assistance during COVID-19 include She-NANIGANS in North Battleford. (submitted photo/Kelly Waters)

White House projects 100K to 240K US deaths from virus
WASHINGTON - The White House on Tuesday projected 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the U.S. from the coronavirus pandemic if current social distancing guidelines are maintained. President Donald Trump cal...
Mar 31, 2020

New Trump mileage standards to gut Obama climate effort
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is poised to roll back ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come, gutting one of the U...
Mar 31, 2020

COVID-19 ended Tynes' high school career; N.S. guard among seniors in limbo
Kellen Tynes likely would have been touring U.S. college campuses right about now and mapping out his college basketball future with his family. Instead, the 18-year-old from Dartmouth, N.S., spent mu...
Mar 31, 2020

Local historian looks back on Spanish Influenza amid COVID-19
Over a hundred years ago, locals were also learning the benefits of social distancing and washing vigorously in the fight against Spanish Influenza.Fred Payton, a board member with the P.A. Historical...
Mar 31, 2020 The Victoria Hospital circa 1920. (submitted photo/P.A. Historical Society)

Montreal Impact midfielder Shamit Shome making most of time alone
Montreal Impact midfielder Shamit Shome has been making the most of his time while hunkered at home. When not reaching out to friends and family, the 22-year-old from Edmonton has been working out and...
Mar 31, 2020

Woodbine Entertainment says it will continue to stable horses on backstretch
TORONTO - Woodbine Entertainment said Tuesday it will continue stabling horses on its backstretch and provide the essential care they need during the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement came...
Mar 31, 2020

Leafs' Dubas praises NBA's 'momentous move' to suspend its season amid pandemic
TORONTO - Kyle Dubas was watching television the evening of March 11 when news started to trickle out of Oklahoma City. An NBA player - it would turn out to be Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz - had ...
Mar 31, 2020

Consider releasing some inmates to stem COVID-19 in prisons, minister requests
OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Bill Blair has asked the federal prison service and the parole board to look at early release for some offenders to prevent the spread of COVID-19 behind bars. Mary-Liz...
Mar 31, 2020

Amid medical-supplies scramble, pandemic highlights new perils to free trade
WASHINGTON - "America First" rhetoric and disdain for free trade are old news in the Donald Trump era, but with countries in a life-or-death scramble to stockpile gowns, ...
Mar 31, 2020