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Trudeau bats away WHO questions, says Canada focused on fighting COVID-19
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused Wednesday to join the escalating global debate about the World Health Organization's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, insisting Canada remains f...
Apr 15, 2020
'What's going to happen?' Alberta teen recounts brush with death from COVID-19
OKOTOKS, Alta. - Matt Greenshields never worried about COVID-19 until he found himself thinking about death as he was being wheeled down the empty, darkened hallways of a hospital on his way...
Apr 15, 2020
Canada needs to increase testing capacity before life can return to normal: PM
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada needs a much greater capacity to test for the novel coronavirus before life can return to normal. The federal government and public health officials ...
Apr 15, 2020
Harsh policing and big fines don't make people safer from COVID-19: criminologists
Corey Yanofsky, a data scientist living in Ottawa, took his dog out for a walk last week and ended up with an $880 fine for standing in the wrong place during the COVID-19 pan...
Apr 15, 2020
Wolfpack player James Cunningham likely laid low by virus after hamstring surgery
James Cunningham just wasn't feeling right, as if he was about to come down with something. So the Toronto Wolfpack hooker/scrum half, recovering from earlier hamstring surgery, was sent home some fiv...
Apr 15, 2020
Barker feels COVID-19 pandemic robbed XFL of time to establish a following
TORONTO - Jim Barker remains a member of a rare pro football fraternity. In 2001, Barker was the offensive co-ordinator with the Los Angeles Xtreme team that captured the first - and on...
Apr 15, 2020
Local dispatchers help manage COVID-19 response
Now more than ever, Prince Albert and the north is relying upon its emergency telecommunications staff to be that calm and collected voice on the other side of the phone.As COVID-19 has progressed, lo...
Apr 15, 2020 (File Photo/ paNOW Staff)
Triple homicide case adjourned, defence awaits evidence report
A man accused of murdering his parents and young son was not present in person or via video, when the case was discussed Wednesday morning at Prince Albert Provincial Court.Nathaniel Carrier's attenda...
Apr 15, 2020 Nathaniel Carrier faces three counts of first degree murder and one count of attempted murder. (Facebook)
Former Manitoba principal sentenced to life for vigilante killings of drug dealers
WINNIPEG - A former Manitoba principal has been sentenced to life in prison for the vigilante killings of two drug dealers. Claude Francis Guimond pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder in th...
Apr 15, 2020
Viper wins WHL Eastern Conference Most Sportsmanlike Player of the Year
He may be a big, strong, 6-6 power forward from Belarus with a menacing nickname like 'the Viper of Vitebsk,' but that doesn't mean that Aliaksei Protas doesn't have finesse as well. On Wednesday, Pro...
Apr 15, 2020 Aliaksei Protas is now an official sportsman. (Lucas Chudleigh/Apollo Multimedia)
