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Nova Scotia under lockdown while Ontario takes steps to relieve strained hospitals
A full shutdown took effect in Nova Scotia on Wednesday in an effort to rein in surging COVID-19 cases, while Ontario enacted more measures aimed at relieving its overburdened hospitals. The lockdown ...
Apr 28, 2021
Connecticut is 6th state to end religious vaccine exemption
Connecticut will no longer allow religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools and day care facilities, becoming the sixth state to end that policy. The legislation, signed ...
Apr 28, 2021
Outdoor tennis now allowed in North Battleford
It's game on again for tennis lovers in North Battleford.Director of Parks and Recreation Cheryl DeNeire reported at council this week the city is now able to open its outdoor tennis courts to the pub...
Apr 28, 2021
Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 pilot, dead of cancer
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the ship from which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left to make their historic first steps on the moon in 1969, died Wednesday of cancer, his family sa...
Apr 28, 2021
Hundreds of travellers landing in Canada test positive for COVID-19 variants
OTTAWA - More than 2,000 people returning to Canada since mandatory hotel quarantines began have tested positive for COVID-19 and more than a quarter of them were infected with a variant of concern. T...
Apr 28, 2021
EXTRA draw means big win for Meadow Lake man
Kevin Gorski of Meadow Lake Gorski was checking his WESTERN 649 tickets over breakfast when he discovered he won $100,000 on the March 10 EXTRA draw."I was eating breakfast and scanning a few tickets ...
Apr 28, 2021
Running back Chuba Hubbard patiently waiting to hear his name called at '21 NFL draft
Chuba Hubbard is ready to finally know where his pro football career will begin. For months, the native of Sherwood Park, Alta., has been working out, undergoing testing and conducting numerous virtua...
Apr 28, 2021
Families remember those lost in Cyclone helicopter crash on one-year anniversary
HALIFAX - For family members of the six Canadian Forces members lost when a Cyclone helicopter crashed in the Mediterranean a year ago, this week is a time of grieving loved ones amid the challenges o...
Apr 28, 2021
Trudeau to give speech at virtual celebrity concert pushing vaccine equality
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on the speakers' list next month at a celebrity-laden global concert promoting vaccine equality. The Global Citizen Vax Live Concert to Reunite the World will...
Apr 28, 2021
P.1 COVID variant spreading in Saskatchewan
It has been a couple of weeks since the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant established itself as the dominant strain in Saskatchewan, but a new variant is now starting to spread.Originally only five cases of th...
Apr 28, 2021