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Amid pandemic, charities and nonprofits face huge challenges
NEW YORK - While celebrities and billionaires have announced huge gifts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, many charities and nonprofits are still struggling. Donations to some churches have plummeted, ...
Apr 22, 2020
Hundreds of Canadians to receive postcards detailing Second World War link
Hundreds of Canadians are about to receive proof of their personal, largely unknown links to one of the defining events of the 20th century. An organization dedicated to commemorating Canada's role in...
May 09, 2019
Quebec sugar shack owners say the COVID-19 pandemic saved the iconic industry
MONTREAL - Sugar shack owners across Quebec are reopening their dining rooms for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and strangely, they are crediting the novel coronavirus with r...
Mar 13, 2022
Egypt to restore e-visa for Canadian tourists after imposing costly process: Joly
OTTAWA - Canada says Egypt will soon stop requiring cumbersome visas for Canadian tourists nearly a year after Cairo imposed the measure on Canadian passport holders. Last October, Egypt suspended Can...
Sep 24, 2024
B.C. hospice looking at legal and other options after funding cut by province
VANCOUVER - A hospice society in British Columbia says it is outraged by the province's decision to stop its funding because it refuses to provide medically assisted death. Angelina Ireland, president...
Feb 26, 2020
Harvey may not have dealt devastating blow to Texas ranchers
GLEN FLORA, Texas - As John Locke looked down from a helicopter at his roughly 200 cattle struggling with Harvey’s rising floodwaters, he saw about 20 becoming entangled in a barbed wire fence a...
Sep 29, 2017
20 dead, more wounded after gunman attacks Texas shoppers
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A gunman armed with a rifle opened fire in an El Paso shopping area packed with as many as 3,000 people during the busy back-to-school season, leaving 20 dead and more than two d...
Aug 04, 2019
Planning underway for new Blaine Lake school
An exciting future awaits students, staff and the community of Blaine Lake. The beginning of planning and design of the new $9.5 million Kindergarten to Grade 12 school has been announced by the provi...
Sep 14, 2020
Repeat rent-dodger dubbed 'professional squatter' prompts call for reform
HALIFAX - A Halifax coffee shop owner who says he tried for more than four months to evict a tenant he called a "professional squatter" is calling for reforms to Nova Scotia's tenancy laws. ...
Oct 18, 2019
Food retailer Loblaw raising handling fee for its largest suppliers
VANCOUVER - The largest suppliers of Loblaw Companies Ltd. will have to pay a new handling fee, the company said. Suppliers using Loblaw’s distribution centres will pay 0.79 per cent on the cost...
Nov 03, 2017