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Diddy providing some COVID-19 relief for Miami neighbourhood
MIAMI - Rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs provided some coronavirus relief in a Miami neighbourhood on Tuesday, handing out $50 bills amid a crowd of hundreds. He was joined by his children at the event set u...
Dec 29, 2020
Quebec Liberal vacationing down south despite repeated warnings to stay home
MONTREAL - Quebec Liberal member Pierre Arcand is vacationing with his wife in the Caribbean despite warnings from the federal and provincial governments to stay home during the pandemic. The Canadian...
Dec 29, 2020
MLS triggering 'force majure' clause in contract over COVID-19 losses
Less than a year after agreeing to a new five-year collective bargaining agreement, Major League Soccer and its players union are heading back to the bargaining table. The league has told the MLS Play...
Dec 29, 2020
Jim MacArthur to retire after overseeing years of change and growth at Stampede
MEDICINE HAT, AB - After nearly 23 years spread over two stints as general manager of the Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede, Jim MacArthur is retiring on Feb. 20Or, to put it in cowboy terms, he'...
Dec 29, 2020
"Calgary Hailer" Environment Canada's top weather story of the year
"Calgary's Billion Dollar Hailer", the storm that featured baseball-size hailstones, propelled by 70 kilometers per hour wind was Canada's top weather story of the year according to Environment Canada...
Dec 29, 2020
'I'm not going to change my game': Perry eager to bring grit, experience to Canadiens
Corey Perry had to set the record straight. Although the NHL's website - and most online hockey databases - lists his birthplace as Peterborough, Ont., the winger actually spent the first 10 years of ...
Dec 29, 2020
Blizzard blasts Nunavut, 135 km/h winds rip off stairs and crush cabins
IQALUIT - Pangnirtung mayor Eric Lawlor couldn't see out his windows on Sunday.That's when a day-long blizzard hit the Baffin Island community of about 1,500, shaking houses and crushing cabins. Accor...
Dec 29, 2020
Former Alberta cabinet minister turned Independent senator Elaine McCoy dies
OTTAWA - Sen. Elaine McCoy, who sat as an Independent from the day she was appointed to the upper chamber, has died.McCoy died Tuesday in Ottawa. She was 74.Born in Brandon, Man., McCoy began her care...
Dec 29, 2020
First reported US case of COVID-19 variant found in Colorado
DENVER - The first reported U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant that's been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday. The variant was found in a man...
Dec 29, 2020
Feds decline charges against officers in Tamir Rice case
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it would not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, saying video...
Dec 29, 2020