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Med Hat Mall taking measures to prevent spread of COVID-19
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Medicine Hat Mall is instituting a number of measures to combat the spread of COVID-19, according to a release by the company which owns the building.As of now, the Medicine Hat...
Mar 12, 2020
March Madness: Conferences scrap tourneys; NCAAs in doubt
The NCAA has cancelled its men's and women's basketball tournaments because of the spread of coronavirus, putting an abrupt end to the season less than a month before champions were to be crowned. The...
Mar 12, 2020
Alberta courthouses preparing for disruptions as COVID-19 spreads
CALGARY - Alberta courthouses are preparing for disruptions with the number of COVID-19 cases expected to grow.The Court of Queen's Bench says members of the public should avoid attending court procee...
Mar 12, 2020
BREAKING: Tigers season suspended along with all CHL clubs
MEDICINE HAT, AB - With just five games left before playoffs, the Medicine Hat Tigers and the WHL's 21 other clubs have been pulled off the ice.The Canadian Hockey League has immediately suspended ope...
Mar 12, 2020 Photo courtesy of Randy Feere / Medicine Hat Tigers
Lethbridge joins the Hat in losing Air Canada service
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Air Canada will only be serving the Lethbridge Airport for another couple of weeks.The airline announced that it is "suspending service indefinitely" for their Lethbridge to Calgary r...
Mar 12, 2020
Some of world's best ice dancers based in Montreal to skate in online show
Montreal ice dance coaches Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon are giving figure skating fans something to watch. A day after the 2020 world figure skating championships in Montreal were cancelle...
Mar 12, 2020
Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall cancel performances
NEW YORK - The Metropolitan Opera has cancelled performances and rehearsals through March 31 because of the coronavirus. The move was announced Thursday, one day after U.S. President Donald Trump anno...
Mar 12, 2020
Hollywood shuts down, Broadway goes dark to curb virus cases
NEW YORK - The entertainment industry prepared Thursday for an unprecedented shutdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, cancelling upcoming movies, suspending all Broadway performances and elimin...
Mar 12, 2020
Wet'suwet'en pipeline supporters feel shut out of talks, ministers told
OTTAWA - Federal cabinet ministers are facing pointed questions about why elected band chiefs and women of the Wet'suwet'en nation who support a disputed natural-gas pipeline in British...
Mar 12, 2020
Broadway shuts its doors over ongoing coronavirus concerns
New York's governor ordered all Broadway theatres to shut their doors in the face of ongoing coronavirus concerns, plunging into darkness one of the city's most popular tourist attractions and causing...
Mar 12, 2020