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Octavia Spencer: Cast more actors with disabilities
BOSTON - Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer says Hollywood needs to do better casting people with disabilities. The star of "The Help" and "Hidden Figures" is part of a new video campaign timed wit...
Jul 27, 2020
NHL announces no positive COVID-19 tests over final week of Phase 3
NEW YORK - The NHL is reporting that no player tested positive for COVID-19 over the final week of training camps. The league said in a release Monday that 4,256 tests were administered to more than 8...
Jul 27, 2020
Experimental COVID-19 vaccine is put to its biggest test
The biggest test yet of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine got underway Monday with the first of some 30,000 Americans rolling up their sleeves to receive shots created by the U.S. government as part of...
Jul 27, 2020
P.A. police investigating early morning homicide
UPDATE: The Prince Albert Police has released the identity of Monday's homicide victim. He was Dorian Gene Michel, aged 27.-Prince Albert are reporting a homicide in the city in the early hours of thi...
Jul 27, 2020
Protests in two Nova Scotia locations over mass shooting review decision
HALIFAX - Hundreds of people gathered at a Halifax park and in the riding of Nova Scotia's justice minister today to demand a public inquiry into the April mass shooting that killed 22 ...
Jul 27, 2020
NHLers set to enter new dress code-less world, but not all will follow suit
Jason Spezza has worn a suit to nearly every game he's played since breaking into the Ontario Hockey League at age 15. Now 37 years old, the Toronto Maple Leafs forward doesn't know any...
Jul 27, 2020
'Tenet' to open in Canada and other international markets a week before U.S.
NEW YORK - In the latest plan for Hollywood's hopeful return to moviegoing during the pandemic, Warner Bros. will release Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" in an unprecedented fashion, opening it internatio...
Jul 27, 2020
Canada provides exception for U.S. students planning to study north of border
WASHINGTON - The federal government appears to have relaxed restrictions at the Canada-U.S. border that would have made it impossible for first-year university students from the United States to enter...
Jul 27, 2020
Toronto FC heads home wondering what went wrong at MLS is Back Tournament
An off night, the lack of a healthy striker and some weary bodies cost Toronto FC at the MLS is Back Tournament. Sunday's 3-1 loss to New York City FC in round-of-16 play was a disappointing...
Jul 27, 2020
Sask. gov’t considers review of domestic violence deaths
A Saskatchewan man whose children were killed by their mother in a murder-suicide says he didn't see the tragedy coming.Mike Bryant says police told him his seven-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son...
Jul 27, 2020
