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Grit City Distillery stepping up to get Hatters hand sanitizer
MEDICINE HAT - It's been a stressing week for Hatters as the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic has increasingly put residents in positions they aren't accustom to. But that has also triggered greater a...
Mar 22, 2020 Jen and Andy Schmunk (right) fill containers of home-brewed hand sanitizer outside their South Railway distillery and pub on Thursday. (CHAT News photo)

‘No new anything:’ Guards union says prison needle exchange expansion on hold
CALGARY - The union representing Canadian correctional officers says a program making clean needles available to inmates at a number of prisons across the country won't be expanding to new institution...
Mar 22, 2020

Clergy move prayers, services online to support congregations amid pandemic
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Clergy across Canada are moving services to the digital world as they adapt to support their congregations amid the global COVID-19 pandemic that has seen governments restrict large...
Mar 22, 2020

Self-isolated NFL players engage in group chats, workouts
Tennessee Titans offensive tackle Dennis Kelly has been hunkered down with his family in the Indianapolis area since the birth of his third daughter a month ago. He has been self-isolating before the ...
Mar 22, 2020

Global athletes group calls for postponement of Olympics
A worldwide group representing Olympic hopefuls is calling on the IOC to postpone the Tokyo Olympics until the coronavirus pandemic is under control. "As the world unites to limit the spread of Covid-...
Mar 22, 2020

Canadian scientists fight coronavirus pandemic on dozens of fronts
Public health officials across Canada and around the world are working flat out to test as many people as possible for the novel coronavirus. Srinivas Murthy is working to figure out how to help&...
Mar 22, 2020 (The Canadian Press)

Golf Canada CEO Applebaum asks golfers to stay home during COVID-19 pandemic
When restrictions on public gatherings to combat the novel coronavirus lift, Golf Canada CEO Laurence Applebaum knows his sport will be ready. Until then, he hopes that amateur golfers follow the...
Mar 22, 2020

Opposition must take different approach in COVID-19 fight, says Andrew Scheer
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the fight against COVID-19 means sheathing partisan swords. Scheer says while the job of the Opposition is to challenge the government, what t...
Mar 22, 2020

Clergy move prayers, services online to support congregations amid pandemic
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Clergy across Canada are moving services to the digital world as they adapt to support their congregations amid the global COVID-19 pandemic that has seen governments restrict ...
Mar 22, 2020

'No new anything:' Guards union says prison needle exchange expansion on hold
CALGARY - The union representing Canadian correctional officers says a program making clean needles available to inmates at a number of prisons across the country won't be expanding to new instit...
Mar 22, 2020