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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)
Alberta Legislature will resume today
EDMONTON, AB - The Alberta Legislature will continue to sit despite the COVID-19 outbreak."We will not rise until the budget is passed," said UCP House Leader Jason Nixon Monday morning.The announceme...
Mar 16, 2020