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Digital Juice Festival goes Saturday evening
A Medicine Hat collective centred around media arts, design and tech will present the Digital Juice Festival this weekend.PULP. Digital.Creators. is behind the celebration of motion arts at the Monarc...
Nov 06, 2020
CP NewsAlert: Nunavut's first case of COVID-19 confirmed in Sanikiluaq
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's chief public health officer has confirmed the territory's first case of COVID-19. Michael Patterson says in a news release that the confirmed case is in the Hudson Bay com...
Nov 06, 2020
Lethbridge-Medicine Hat’s unemployment rate up slightly in October
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The latest unemployment numbers have been released.In October, the jobless rate for the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat economic region was 8.7 per cent. That's up ever-so-slightly from 8.6 p...
Nov 06, 2020
AHS limiting close contacts it notifies, asks some Albertans to notify their own
A record number of COVID-19 cases confirmed daily in the province is requiring an unprecedented volume of contact tracing for Alberta Health Services. AHS is now changing its approach, limiting the nu...
Nov 06, 2020
Airlines' 'bait-and-switch' strategy lures customers to flights that never take off
OTTAWA - Rob Przybylski and Courtney Ross were slated to wrap up the month on a Costa Rican beach, sipping sugarcane cocktails with friends and family as they celebrated their wedding. Instead, the Os...
Nov 06, 2020
Raonic advances to Paris Masters semifinals with close win over Humbert
PARIS - Canada's Milos Raonic advanced to the semifinals of the Paris Masters tennis tournament Friday with a nervy 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7) win over France's Ugo Humbert. Raonic, the 10th seed from Tho...
Nov 06, 2020
Aces president confident Ottawa rugby team can succeed despite startup delay
Despite having to delay the Ottawa Aces' debut until 2022, president/chairman Eric Perez is confident his new rugby league team has staying power. He knows the timing of the Aces' announcement is unfo...
Nov 06, 2020
Canadians upset Northern Ireland at BetVictor World Cup of Darts in Austria
SALZBURG, Austria - Unseeded Canadians Jeff (The Silencer) Smith and Matt (Ginga Ninja) Campbell upset fourth-seeded Northern Ireland 5-2 Friday in first-round action at the BetVictor World Cup of Dar...
Nov 06, 2020
To cut Trump off or let him rant: That is the question facing broadcasters
TORONTO - Deciding on the fly whether to air in real time U.S. President Donald Trump's baseless allegations of election fraud is a tricky dilemma that defies easy solutions, broadcast journalists and...
Nov 06, 2020
Convicted sex offender Donald Sullivan volunteered with Scouts Canada in N.L.
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A former Scouts leader convicted in Ottawa of sex crimes against young boys was also a volunteer with the organization in Newfoundland and Labrador, and a lawyer specializing in sex...
Nov 06, 2020