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Fundraiser for Saddledome employees who will lose shifts raises over $39,000
CALGARY - A fundraiser for hourly workers at the Scotiabank Saddledome has raised over $39,000 after the company that owns the Calgary Flames told hourly staff they wouldn't receive pay for lost shift...
Mar 15, 2020
UFC plans to keep staging MMA shows, looks for new venues to host fight cards
LAS VEGAS - UFC president Dana White says the UFC will continue staging fights despite the COVID-19 outbreak. "Unless there's a total shutdown of the country, where people can't leave their houses and...
Mar 15, 2020
Trudeau says border closures, mandatory screening up for discussion
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says nothing is off the table when it comes to the next phase of Canada's response to the spread of COVID-19. Trudeau told CTV's Question Period this morning tha...
Mar 15, 2020
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
