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The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 11:30 a.m. Nova Scotia has confirmed its first three presumptive cases of COVID-19. Public health officials say th...
Mar 15, 2020
Pachal playing the waiting game with the Wolves with season on pause
A lot has changed for Brayden Pachal in the last year. He's gone from being a captain and go-to player on the WHL Championship-winning Prince Albert Raiders, to being a rookie in his first professiona...
Mar 15, 2020 Catching up with former Raiders captain Brayden Pachal. (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Rapid response COVID-19 science conducted by father and daughter virologists
HALIFAX - For a Halifax father and daughter dedicated to taking on global infectious diseases, the novel coronavirus has led to their latest, exhausting push to create tests a...
Mar 15, 2020
Town of Asbestos ready to change name and move beyond proud but toxic legacy
ASBESTOS, Que. - Retired miner Mario Leblanc stares at a giant map of his town from 1960 that hangs on the wall of the Asbestos, Que., historical society and laments how much his commun...
Mar 15, 2020
Gen. Jonathan Vance focused on the future of the military and not his career
OTTAWA - Gen. Jonathan Vance says he still has a lot of work to do. It's been nearly five years since former prime minister Stephen Harper first appointed Vance as chief of the defence staff, making h...
Mar 15, 2020
Call for coaching codes of conduct after harassment allegations at UVic
VANCOUVER - Post-secondary institutions in British Columbia are being urged to create coaching codes of conduct after verbal abuse complaints were made against a rowing coach at the University of Vict...
Mar 15, 2020
Call for coaching codes of conduct after harassment allegations at UVic
VANCOUVER - Post-secondary institutions in British Columbia are being urged to create coaching codes of conduct after verbal abuse complaints were made against a rowing coach at the University of Vict...
Mar 15, 2020
Saudi Aramco's net income drops to $88.2 billion in 2019
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Oil giant Saudi Aramco said Sunday its net income dropped by $22.9 billion in 2019 to $88.2 billion, a sharp decrease coming as the kingdom stands ready to flood an alrea...
Mar 15, 2020
Countries around the world announce more virus restrictions
BARCELONA, Spain - Authorities around the world turned to increasingly drastic measures to try to slow the spread of the new coronavirus Sunday, with lockdowns, curfews and travel restrictions spreadi...
Mar 15, 2020
Israeli PM's corruption trial postponed due to coronavirus
JERUSALEM - A Jerusalem district court announced on Sunday that it was postponing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's criminal trial for two months because of restrictions arising from the out...
Mar 15, 2020
