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Canada closes borders to most foreigners to fight spread of COVID-19
OTTAWA - Canada is closing its borders to most foreign nationals except Americans and is barring anyone, including Canadian citizens, with symptoms of the novel coronavirus from boarding fli...
Mar 16, 2020
COVID-19 has Canadian Blood Services worried about critical shortage
OTTAWA - Canadian Blood Services is seeking to reassure donors that it's safe to give blood, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Isra Levy of Canadian Blood Services says there has been a jum...
Mar 16, 2020
City of Kamloops activates Emergency Operations Centre in response to COVID-19
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has announced it is activating its Emergency Operations Centre in response to COVID-19.According to the city's website, the move came after Provincial Health Officer Dr...
Mar 16, 2020
7 Bay Area counties in California order shelter-in-place
LOS ANGELES - Officials in six San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a shelter-in-place mandate on Monday affecting nearly 7 million people, including the city of San Francisco itself. The order says...
Mar 16, 2020
Noted musical trailblazer Doriot Anthony Dwyer dies at 98
BOSTON - A longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra flutist and musical trailblazer has died, the orchestra said Monday. Doriot Anthony Dwyer was 98. Dwyer, the second woman ever to win a principal chair in...
Mar 16, 2020
Alberta courts feel effect of COVID-19 pandemic
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Alberta courts will be rolling back some of its services in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.Alberta Court of Queen's Bench will only be holding emergency or urgent matters in which t...
Mar 16, 2020
Blood donations urged to continue despite COVID-19 concerns
PRINCE ALBERT - Canadian Blood Services is continuing to urge blood donations after numerous appointments were cancelled across the country.In a release the organization noted it needs to continue to ...
Mar 16, 2020
Canada to close border to non-citizens apart from US residents
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is closing its borders to most people who are not citizens or permanent residents to slow the spread of COVID-19.The federal government is mandating ...
Mar 16, 2020
Alberta's chief medical health officer in self-isolation, gets coronavirus test
EDMONTON - A doctor who has become the face of Alberta's medical response to the novel coronavirus outbreak is in self-isolation. Government sources say Dr. Deena Hinshaw, the province's chief medical...
Mar 16, 2020 Canadian Press
City says no state of emergency yet for Medicine Hat
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Despite the City of Calgary enacting state of local emergency measures on Sunday, the City of Medicine Hat says they will not be doing the same.Speaking to reporters at a press conf...
Mar 16, 2020 City of Medicine Hat director of emergency management Merrick Brown speaking Monday (Photo courtesy of Colton McKee)