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Sherbrooke Phoenix become second QMJHL team to face COVID-19 outbreak
LONGUEUIL, Que. - The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has a team dealing with multiple positive COVID-19 tests for the second-time this week. The Sherbrooke Phoenix announced Thursday that eight mem...
Oct 08, 2020
ATB says it'll be a few years before Alberta's GDP is back to pre-pandemic levels
A new economic report forecasts Alberta's real GDP to grow by about 3.3 per cent in 2021, but that it will take a few years for it to return to pre-pandemic levels.ATB Financial's Alberta Economic Out...
Oct 08, 2020
Big interest from business in MHBIG program
MEDICINE HAT, AB - More than half the money the City of Medicine Hat earmarked for local businesses to help them cope with and recover from the impacts of COVID-19 has been doled out.The Medicine Hat ...
Oct 08, 2020
Nunavut declares COVID-19 outbreak at mine contained; some workers can travel home
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's chief public health officer says an outbreak of COVID-19 at a gold mine has been contained. Dr. Michael Patterson says there are 10 positive cases and six presumptive case...
Oct 08, 2020
Iowa offensive lineman tops CFL's first Scouting Bureau's top-20 prospects list
TORONTO - Alaric Jackson, an offensive lineman at the University of Iowa, has the No. 1 spot in the first edition of the CFL scouting bureau's top-20 prospects for the 2021 draft. The six-foot-six, 31...
Oct 08, 2020
Hearing resumes for N.S. man alleging racial bias during 2018 arrest in Halifax park
HALIFAX - A Halifax man is arguing in front of a police review board that his race played a role in his 2018 arrest and jailing after he and his spouse stopped in park to make a phone call. The hearin...
Oct 08, 2020
Nunavut premier strips housing minister of cabinet portfolios for social media post
Nunavut Premier Joe Savikataaq has stripped the territory's housing minister of his cabinet portfolios over a social media post about the Black Lives Matter movement. Patterk Netser had served as hous...
Oct 08, 2020
Hat Grannies for Africa hosting quilt sale
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Any quilters who like to hibernate and create over the winter months can stock up on their supplies next weekend.The Hat Grannies for Africa are hosting a Pop Up Quilting Fabric Sal...
Oct 08, 2020
Top Nunavut judge denies request for territory's first written Gladue report
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's top judge says one of the reasons the territorial court doesn't order reports into the background of Indigenous offenders before they are sentenced is that there are no wr...
Oct 08, 2020
6 people charged in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer
DETROIT - Six men plotted to try to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in federal court. Four of the six men had...
Oct 08, 2020