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Nova Scotia became the latest province to cancel its curling playdowns Monday due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it further stoked the debate on how best to decide on provincial representative...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Parler social media site is being deemed too extreme by tech giants Amazon, Google and Apple who have now withdrawn use of their online infrastructure to host the site which sou...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Former Medicine Hat Tigers defenceman Jay Bouwmeester has quietly hung up his skates.The 17-year veteran made it official in an interview with Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic.Bouwmees...

VANCOUVER - A woman says her little brother can now be laid to rest after his ashes reached her Metro Vancouver home from Edmonton weeks later than promised. Courtney Baker says her mother in Maple Ri...

WINNIPEG - Vaccine distribution has begun on a handful of Manitoba reserves as a task force reports that 61 per cent of the people with active COVID-19 in the province are First Nations.Manitoba's Fir...

TORONTO - The COVID-19 pandemic will result in the Queen's Plate being pushed back for a second straight year. A source said Monday this year's race will be run Sunday Aug. 22 instead of its tradition...

TORONTO - New restrictions to fight skyrocketing rates of COVID-19 were being considered by Ontario's cabinet Monday night, although a curfew was not one of them. The discussion took place as the prov...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - After two weeks with no new cases of COVID-19, Nunavut says it will lift lockdowns in the last two communities that were still facing strict public health measures. But Dr. Michael ...

Coming up at 3:30 p.m.Chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw will provide an update on COVID-19. She will be joined by Premier Jason Kenney and Health Minister Tyler Shandro.

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host a virtual cabinet retreat to plot strategy for the resumption of Parliament later this month in the midst of the raging COVID-19 pandemic.The retreat w...