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Virtual choir brings N.L. students together in song, with cameo from Trudeau
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A "virtual choir" has brought students across Newfoundland and Labrador, along with professional musicians and politicians, together in song during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Newfou...
Apr 09, 2020
Canada lost 1,011,000 jobs in March, unemployment rate up to 7.8%
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada reports the economy lost 1,011,000 jobs in March as the COVID-19 crisis began to take hold, which lifts the unemployment rate up to 7.8 per cent. The 2.2 per cent increase i...
Apr 09, 2020 Canadian Press
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 8:10 a.m. Canada Goose Holdings Inc. is moving to increase its domestic production of personal protective equipmen...
Apr 09, 2020
Public help needed to identify Vauxhall armed bank robbery suspect
VAUXHALL, AB. - Taber RCMP need your help to identify an armed bank robber. Around 12:30-pm on Wednesday (April 8), RCMP responded to the report of an armed robbery at a bank in the area of 2 avenue n...
Apr 09, 2020 Vauxhall bank robbery -- RCMP released video surveillance
Iraq appoints third PM-designate, after second withdraws
BAGHDAD - Iraq's intelligence chief was appointed the country's third prime minister-designate in just over a month Thursday after the resignation of the most recent candidate amid political infightin...
Apr 09, 2020
Researchers to study whether plasma of recovered patients can treat COVID-19
MONTREAL - Researchers from across Canada will collaborate on a vast clinical trial to study whether the plasma of recovered patients can be used to treat COVID-19. The study, the largest to date ever...
Apr 09, 2020
StatCan to detail March jobs and WHO on defensive; In The News for April 9
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 April 9 ... COVI...
Apr 09, 2020
People needing addiction services feeling 'abandoned' during pandemic
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's former provincial health officer says he has "grave concerns" about reduced services because of COVID-19 for people struggling with drug addiction,&n...
Apr 09, 2020
StatCan set to release March jobs numbers, and window on COVID-19 crisis
OTTAWA - Canada's national statistics agency is set this morning to release a snapshot of the labour force from March as the COVID-19 virus plunged the country into economic u...
Apr 09, 2020
'Heightened sense of anxiety:' Police increasingly face COVID-19 threats
The head of the Canadian Police Association says he is worried about the increasing number of COVID-19 threats officers face while responding to calls. "During this particular pandemic there is a...
Apr 09, 2020