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Trudeau bats away WHO questions, says Canada focused on fighting COVID-19
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused Wednesday to join the escalating global debate about the World Health Organization's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, insisting Canada remains f...
Apr 15, 2020

'What's going to happen?' Alberta teen recounts brush with death from COVID-19
OKOTOKS, Alta. - Matt Greenshields never worried about COVID-19 until he found himself thinking about death as he was being wheeled down the empty, darkened hallways of a hospital on his way...
Apr 15, 2020

Canada needs to increase testing capacity before life can return to normal: PM
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada needs a much greater capacity to test for the novel coronavirus before life can return to normal. The federal government and public health officials ...
Apr 15, 2020

'Love doesn't stop': Weddings on hiatus as COVID-19 continues
MEDICINE HAT, AB - It's supposed to be the happiest day of their lives --the day Cindy Keeler and fiance' Nick say "I do" in front of friends and familyTheir wedding was supposed to be this Saturday.B...
Apr 15, 2020 (Tiffany Goodwein/ CHAT News Today)

Harsh policing and big fines don't make people safer from COVID-19: criminologists
Corey Yanofsky, a data scientist living in Ottawa, took his dog out for a walk last week and ended up with an $880 fine for standing in the wrong place during the COVID-19 pan...
Apr 15, 2020

Wolfpack player James Cunningham likely laid low by virus after hamstring surgery
James Cunningham just wasn't feeling right, as if he was about to come down with something. So the Toronto Wolfpack hooker/scrum half, recovering from earlier hamstring surgery, was sent home some fiv...
Apr 15, 2020

Barker feels COVID-19 pandemic robbed XFL of time to establish a following
TORONTO - Jim Barker remains a member of a rare pro football fraternity. In 2001, Barker was the offensive co-ordinator with the Los Angeles Xtreme team that captured the first - and on...
Apr 15, 2020

Show support for local restaurants on Canada Takeout Day
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Wednesdays have been dubbed Canada Takeout Day and people are asked to get takeout or delivery from their favourite local eatery to show support for one of the industries hardest hi...
Apr 15, 2020 CHAT News File Photo

Rattler Run goes virtual for 2020
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The 2020 Rattler Run lives on.After cancelling the run in mid March as the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic came into full view, organizers went back to the drawing board. They cam...
Apr 15, 2020 CHAT News File Photo

Former Manitoba principal sentenced to life for vigilante killings of drug dealers
WINNIPEG - A former Manitoba principal has been sentenced to life in prison for the vigilante killings of two drug dealers. Claude Francis Guimond pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder in th...
Apr 15, 2020