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Liberal MP Jim Carr to receive stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer
OTTAWA - Liberal MP and former cabinet minister Jim Carr is returning to hospital for a stem-cell transplant. He says the treatment for his blood cancer had been delayed due to the COVID-19 pande...
May 5, 2020
Play ball: Korean baseball league begins in empty stadiums
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - The new baseball season began in South Korea on Tuesday with the crack of the bat and the sound of the ball smacking into the catcher's mitt echoing around empty stadiums. ...
May 5, 2020
Coronavirus returns long-banned drive-in movies to Iran
TEHRAN, Iran - The new coronavirus pandemic has brought back something unseen in Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution: a drive-in movie theatre. Once decried by revolutionaries for allowing too much...
May 5, 2020
P.A. firefighters get new contract
The city of Prince Albert and its firefighters have agreed on a new three year contact. It will see a 6.81 per cent wage increase over three years, but no retro-pay for 2019 or the beginning of 2020. ...
May 5, 2020 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
In 'Becoming,' a starring role for Michelle Obama
NEW YORK - In the backstage hallways of Washington D.C.'s Capital One Arena, Michelle Obama walks arm-in-arm with her husband, Barack Obama. She has just finished the third stop on what would be a 34-...
May 5, 2020
Colson Whitehead's 'The Nickel Boys' wins Pulitzer Prize
NEW YORK - Colson Whitehead became the rare author to receive Pulitzers for consecutive books when his novel about a brutal Florida reform school during the Jim Crow era, "The Nickel Boys," was awarde...
May 5, 2020
Philippines orders leading TV network to halt operations
MANILA, Philippines - A Philippine government agency on Tuesday ordered the country's leading broadcast network, which the president has targeted for its critical news coverage, to halt operations. Th...
May 5, 2020
COVID-19 aid for farmers and rescuing Cirque du Soleil; In The News for May 5
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of May 5 ... --- CO...
May 5, 2020
Most Canadians comfortable with pace of easing restrictions: poll
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Canadians are in step with their federal and provincial governments as they begin to gently lift restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 this month....
May 5, 2020
Vancouver biotech company discovering antibodies for COVID-19 treatment
VANCOUVER - There may be another valuable shield in the fight against COVID-19, and the head of a Vancouver biotech firm says it could buy time as researchers race to develop a vaccine. Carl...
May 5, 2020
