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Ontario Premier Ford says tests of NHL players would be handled in private labs
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the NHL plans to use private labs to process the COVID-19 tests of players and staff should the league resume play this summer. Ford was asked Wednesday whethe...
Jun 03, 2020
Snapchat to stop 'promoting' Trump amid uproar over tweets
OAKLAND, Calif. - Snapchat will stop "promoting" President Donald Trump on its video messaging service, the latest example of a social media platform adjusting how it treats this U.S. president. Last ...
Jun 03, 2020
Canadian Humanitarian's Test of Humanity challenge goes virtual
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Non-profits have had a more difficult time fundraising in light of COVID-19.Many charities have now taken to social media and virtual fundraisers to support their causes.Program Dev...
Jun 03, 2020
Prosecutors charge three more officers in George Floyd's death
MINNEAPOLIS - Prosecutors on Wednesday expanded their case against the police who were at the scene of George Floyd's death, charging three of the officers with aiding and abetting a murder and upgrad...
Jun 03, 2020
Calgary couple stranded in India by COVID-19 pandemic killed: family
CALGARY - Family say a Calgary couple stranded in India because of the COVID-19 pandemic was robbed and killed last week. Kirpal Minhas, who was 67, and his wife Davinder, who was 65, w...
Jun 03, 2020
Greens likely to hold virtual leadership convention due to pandemic: May
OTTAWA - Former Green party leader Elizabeth May says she does not expect the party's leadership and policy convention to happen as planned in Prince Edward Island this fall because of COVID-19. ...
Jun 03, 2020
Sens' Smith looks back at 1st season behind the bench in Ottawa, ahead to draft
D.J. Smith has let his mind wander, if ever so slightly. Coming off his first season as an NHL head coach - one cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic - the Ottawa Senators' bench boss has already turned ...
Jun 03, 2020
Cannes announces lineup for a festival cancelled by COVID
From an empty movie theatre in Paris, organizers of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday announced the films that would have played at there in May had it not been cancelled by the pandemic. The sele...
Jun 03, 2020
AP source: MLB rejects 114-game plan, tells union no counter
NEW YORK - Major League Baseball rejected the players' offer for a 114-game regular season in the pandemic-delayed season with no additional salary cuts and told the union it did not plan to make a co...
Jun 03, 2020
Two-time Olympic gold medallist Haley Irwin retires from national hockey team
CALGARY - Two-time Olympic gold medallist Haley Irwin has announced her retirement from the Canadian women's hockey team. The 31-year-old forward from Thunder Bay, Ont., won Olympic gold in 2010 and 2...
Jun 03, 2020