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Virus ripples through travel, energy, financial markets
The economic affects of the coronavirus have preceded the spread of the virus itself, with financial markets swinging wildly, companies closing offices or asking employees work from home in affected a...
Mar 05, 2020
Update: First presumptive case of COVID-19 in Alberta in the Calgary zone
EDMONTON, AB - The government has confirmed Alberta's first presumptive case of the novel coronavirus is in the Calgary zone.Testing has not been confirmed at the national lab.The province's chief med...
Mar 05, 2020 COVID-19 - Canadian Press photo
Docs prescription to government: rethink changes to healthcare
MEDICNE HAT, AB - Despite a growing chorus of Alberta doctors calling on the UCP government to rethink changes to provincial healthcare, Premier Jason Kenney and Health Minister Tyler Shandro are stan...
Mar 05, 2020 Dr. Gerry Prince is warning of a reduction in obstetric services in the city if provincial healthcare changes go through. (CHAT News photo)
Supervised consumption site still up in the air following a government report
MEDICINE HAT, AB -This building still stands as the proposed supervised consumption site in Medicine Hat.But whether the doors will ever open is still up in the air.Funding for the project has been in...
Mar 05, 2020 Proposed supervised consumption site on South Railway Street in Medicine Hat - March 5, 2020 (photo courtesy Bob Schneider)
Health Canada to ban strychnine to kill Richardson's ground squirrels
EDMONTON - Health Canada is moving forward with a ban on the use of the deadly pesticide strychnine to kill gophers.The Health Canada website says an evaluation of scientific information confirms ther...
Mar 05, 2020 Richardson's Ground squirrel AKA gopher -photo credit to U-of-L
In wake of report, Spearman & Hyggen say SCS needs to stay open
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Two officials with Lethbridge City Council are reacting to Thursday's provincial report on supervised consumption sites (SCS).As LNN reported, the report takes several issues with the...
Mar 05, 2020 Mayor Chris Spearman (left) and City Councillor Blaine Hyggen (right). (Lethbridge News Now)
Brock Badgers edge Calgary Dinos in U Sports women's quarterfinals
OTTAWA - The Brock Badgers held off a feisty Calgary team primed for an upset, edging the seventh-seeded Dinos 72-71 in the second quarterfinal at the U Sports women's basketball championship on Thurs...
Mar 05, 2020
Medicine Hat Police concerned about recent high risk incidents
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Medicine Hat Police Service say they're concerned after responding to several mental health calls and high risk incidents in recent weeks.In the past two weeks, police have resp...
Mar 05, 2020 Inspector Brent Secondiak
Province planning new health data warehouse
EDMONTON, AB - The provincial government is looking for a vendor to help set up a health data warehouse in the province.The goal, according to a release from the province sent on Thursday, is to stren...
Mar 05, 2020
Arrows look to win 12th straight regular-season game as they take on Colorado
The Toronto Arrows look to win their 12th straight regular-season game Friday when they visit the Colorado Raptors. Continuity has been a key to their success in 2020, with 29 returning players f...
Mar 05, 2020