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FIFA visits Toronto this week to hold 2026 World Cup candidate city workshops
TORONTO - The next step in the host city selection process for the 2026 World Cup takes place Thursday when FIFA representatives meet with the Canadian Soccer Association and representatives from...
Mar 9, 2020
Man dies from coronavirus in B.C. care centre
VANCOUER, B.C. - British Columbia health officials say a man has died of the new coronavirus at a care centre in North Vancouver.The death at the Lynn Valley care centre is believed to be the first CO...
Mar 9, 2020
Burns earns Queen Trapper title for fifth year in a row
Both winners of the King and Queen Trappers Competition were impressed with the challenge fellow participants provided them this year.For the fifth time in a row, Clarissa Burns of Prince Albert took ...
Mar 9, 2020 Clarissa Burns, left, and Richard Charles. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)
Prince Albert digs out after snow dump
Just when you thought you were finished with winter, it pulls you back in.Prince Albert's Roadway's Manager Brent Kennedy noted crews have been busy since Saturday cleaning and removing snow from the ...
Mar 9, 2020 (Glenn Hicks/paNOW Staff)
New coronavirus causes cancellation of women's world hockey championship
A women's world hockey championship has been wiped out by disease for a second time, with host Canada the loser of this year's tournament. The International Ice Hockey Federation cancelled the 10...
Mar 9, 2020
Trainers, vets, others charged in horse-drugging scheme
More than two dozen people, including the trainer of champion Maximum Security, have been charged in what authorities described Monday as a widespread international scheme to drug horses to make them ...
Mar 9, 2020
Several lawmakers had contact with man at CPAC who got virus
WASHINGTON - The Capitol's attending physician said Monday that "several" members of Congress had contact with a person who attended a recent political conference and who subsequently developed COVID-...
Mar 9, 2020
Saskatchewan teachers to implement sanctions starting Thursday
The province's teachers are to begin withholding services starting Thursday.It's the latest step in the labour dispute between the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (STF) and the provincial government...
Mar 9, 2020 (Brent Bosker/650 CKOM)
Kalen Schlatter testifies he did not kill or sexually assault Tess Richey
TORONTO - A Toronto man accused of sexually assaulting and strangling a young woman says she was alive when he left her following a consensual sexual encounter. Kalen Schlatter, 23, took the stan...
Mar 9, 2020
Feds told to ease EI, use tax credits in spending to ease COVID-19 economic shock
OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals are being urged to ease access to federal sick leave benefits, along with tax credits and other breaks, to help workers and businesses deal with the economic impacts...
Mar 9, 2020
