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Medicine Hat's unemployment rate bucking provincial, national trend
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Alberta as a whole has shed nearly 40,000 jobs last month compared to March 2019 but the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region is bucking the trend with job growth over the same period, ac...
Apr 09, 2020

Oilers forward Cave remains in medically-induced coma at Toronto hospital
TORONTO - Edmonton Oilers forward Colby Cave remains in a medically-induced coma at a Toronto hospital after suffering a brain bleed earlier this week. The Oilers, through Cave's family, provided an u...
Apr 09, 2020

Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony postponed due to COVID-19
ST. MARYS, Ont. - The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame is posting its 2020 induction ceremony because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Former Toronto Blue Jays first baseman and two-time World Series champion ...
Apr 09, 2020

Conservatives not holding up aid bill, but want to see improvements: Scheer
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says his party isn't deliberately holding up a new financial aid package for COVID-19 relief. Scheer says constructive conversations are ongoing between his ...
Apr 09, 2020

Supreme Court refuses to hear case concerning rights of disabled air passengers
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not examine whether new air-travel rules that allow lengthy delays breach the rights of some Canadians with disabilities. The federal regulations le...
Apr 09, 2020

Southampton becomes 1st EPL club to defer player salaries
SOUTHAMPTON, England - Southampton became the first Premier League club to announce an agreement with players to defer part of their salaries during the coronavirus pandemic. Players and coaches at th...
Apr 09, 2020

Top court won't hear bid to suspend Quebec's secularism law
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not look at whether Quebec's secularism law should be suspended while a full legal challenge of the measure plays out. The law, known as Bill 21, prohibi...
Apr 09, 2020

16.8M Americans thrown out of work as economic toll rises
NEW YORK - The coronavirus outbreak has thrown at least 16.8 million Americans onto the unemployment rolls in just three weeks, underscoring the terrifying speed with which the crisis has brought worl...
Apr 09, 2020

UK braces for more virus deaths; Johnson reported stable
LONDON - Britons braced Thursday for several more weeks in lockdown as Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained stable in a London hospital after three nights in intensive care for treatment of his coron...
Apr 09, 2020

Controls can keep Canadian COVID-19 deaths under 22,000, health agency says
OTTAWA - With strong control measures, the federal public health agency projects that 11,000 to 22,000 Canadians could die of COVID-19 in the coming months.The Public Health Agency of Canada says shor...
Apr 09, 2020