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Union 'deeply troubled' by lack of COVID-19 protection at meat plant
HIGH RIVER, Alta. - The operator of a meat plant south of Calgary says it is reducing shifts a day after a union raised concerns about a lack of COVID-19 safety measures. The president of United Food ...
Apr 14, 2020 Cargill Meat Solutions
Fatal pedestrian collision claims life of child
LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- Lethbridge police continue to investigate a fatal pedestrian collision, which happened around 3:30 on Monday (Apr 13) at the intersection of Whoop Up Drive and Aquitania Boulevard W...
Apr 14, 2020 LPS cruiser -- LNN
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 8:55 a.m. Two residents of another British Columbia care home have tested positive for COVID-19, just days after health o...
Apr 14, 2020
Cuomo says Trump is not a king, can't force states to reopen
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took to morning TV shows Tuesday to push back against President Donald Trump's claim of "total" authority to reopen the nation's virus-stalled economy, noting that a preside...
Apr 14, 2020
IMF: Stung by virus, global economy will shrink 3% in 2020
WASHINGTON - Beaten down by the coronavirus outbreak, the world economy in 2020 will suffer its worst year since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the International Monetary Fund says in its latest f...
Apr 14, 2020
'A lifeboat in the ocean:' Nurses on life inside a downtown Vancouver hospital
VANCOUVER - As a registered nurse in the emergency department at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Zoe Manarangi Bake-Paterson wonders whether she'll be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic subsi...
Apr 14, 2020
Second World War commemorations become casualty of COVID-19 pandemic
OTTAWA - Donald White was shaving when his friend ran in excitedly to tell his unit the news: The war was over. The evening of May 8, 1945, White and his fellow Royal Canadian Dragoons were parked at ...
Apr 14, 2020
Elderly main victims of COVID-19 and sci-fi writers on the pandemic; In The News for April 14
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of April 14 ... COV...
Apr 14, 2020
Gatherings restricted, schools closed: What's being done to fight COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory. Canada's chief public health officer and her provincial counterparts are encouraging people to wash their hands, give ea...
Apr 14, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on April 14, 2020: There are 25,682 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 13,557 confirmed ...
Apr 14, 2020