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Local appliance retailers seeing high demand due to pandemic
While many businesses have been struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic, appliance stores everywhere are seeing numbers soar. But that high demand is creating a problem for manufacturers and longer wa...
Dec 21, 2020
COVID cases at two P.A. schools
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has identified positive COVID-19 cases in one individual in each of the following schools: cole Vickers Public School and John Diefenbaker Public School.In a media re...
Dec 21, 2020
Judge plans to hear from residents in $641M Flint water deal
DETROIT - A judge said Monday that she'll wait until January before deciding whether to give preliminary approval to a $641 million settlement in a lawsuit by Flint residents who were exposed to water...
Dec 21, 2020
Edmonton Oilers defenceman Oscar Klefbom set to miss entire season with injury
Edmonton Oilers general manager Ken Holland says defenceman Oscar Klefbom will miss the 2020-21 season after suffering a shoulder injury last season. The team hopes Klefbom can return for the start of...
Dec 21, 2020
No evidence to support reported violent incident on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation
The Prince Albert RCMP have announced after an investigation on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation there was no evidence to support reports of gun shot sounds in the area or uttering threats at a rural ho...
Dec 21, 2020
Lockdown to begin for all of Ontario on Boxing Day as province sees soaring cases
TORONTO - Ontario will go into lockdown on Boxing Day in an effort to bring soaring COVID-19 cases under control, a move the province announced Monday after health advisors said thousands of infection...
Dec 21, 2020
P.A. photographer offers tips on how to see Monday's 'Great Conjunction'
Sky watchers will have the chance to see a rare astrological event Monday as Saturn and Jupiter - the solar systems' two largest planets - appear to merge in the night sky. The last time the two plane...
Dec 21, 2020
Homegrown receiver Lemar Durant signs extension with B.C. Lions
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Lions have signed Canadian wide receiver Lemar Durant to a one-year extension that will keep him with the team through the 2022 season. The native of Coquitlam, B.C., was named th...
Dec 21, 2020
Bergman succeeds Horn as Disney Studios chairman
Walt Disney Co. veteran Alan Bergman has been named chairman of Disney Studios, the company said Monday. Bergman will be succeeding Alan Horn, who will remain chief creative officer. Horn and Bergman ...
Dec 21, 2020
Gabriel Bump named 2020 winner of the Ernest Gaines Award
NEW ORLEANS - Chicago's South Side comes alive through the writings of Gabriel Bump's debut novel, "Everywhere You Don't Belong," which has earned him recognition as the 2020 winner of the Ernest J. G...
Dec 21, 2020
