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Reopening plans and Canadians' anxiety on leaving home; In The News for May 12
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of May 12 ... --- C...
May 12, 2020
A look at some of the Canadians who have lost their lives to COVID 19
COVID-19 has sickened tens of thousands of Canadians from coast to coast and killed thousands. "While we can start to become numb to these numbers as time goes on, each one of these individuals had a ...
May 12, 2020
Plans in motion for provinces to begin reopening amid COVID-19 pandemic
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Ottawa and Washington are working on plans to deal with an increase in cross-border traffic as states and provinces begin reopening. There's curre...
May 12, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on May 12, 2020: There are 69,981 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 38,469 confirmed (includ...
May 12, 2020
Archaic paper records submitted by fax hold up real-time COVID-19 data
OTTAWA - Health research experts say the archaic way Canada records deaths means the country could be missing out on data important to addressing the COVID-19 crisis. When someone dies in Ca...
May 12, 2020
New regulations announced for reopening
MEDICINE HAT- A new haircut or dinner at your favorite restaurant will look a little different come reopening on May 14. The province of Alberta released industry specific guidelines for Stage 1 busin...
May 11, 2020
Probe ends into Manitoba Mountie's hunting accident; officer refused interview
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's police watchdog says an investigation into an off-duty Mountie who reportedly shot himself in the foot while goose hunting has ended because of a lack of informati...
May 11, 2020
Mavericks owner/GM Morrison calling WCBL season 'very unlikely'
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Optimism is fleeting from the Medicine Hat Mavericks organization of having baseball this summer in the city.Field preparations continue at Athletic Park with no official word of ca...
May 11, 2020
MLA Barnes addresses tweet calling COVID-19 fears 'overblown'
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Drew Barnes is saying a tweet that has generated backlash online was sent in hopes of generating discussion around the COVID-19 pandemic.On Saturday night, ...
May 11, 2020
City Hall lays off 170 municipal workers
MEDICINE HAT, AB - A number has now been put on what Medicine Hat Mayor Ted Clugston called the "massive" layoffs the city was required to make as the COVID-19 pandemic forced a number of municipal fa...
May 11, 2020