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OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is cutting its key interest target by half a percentage point to 0.25 per cent in an unscheduled rate announcement. In a statement on its website, the centra...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Municipalities across Canada have been reporting layoffs as a result of COVID-19 and pink slips could be on the way for city employees in Medicine Hat. The COVID-19 health pandemic ...

Fear of the unknown was holding Markus Thormeyer back in the pool. When the Canadian swimmer told teammates he was gay, the walls he'd built up came down and Thormeyer felt liberated to swim fast...

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 March 27 ... COV...

It's becoming an increasingly ambiguous scenario: the elevator door opens and someone is already inside. Do you go in, or do you wait for the next one? Public health officials have been urging Canadia...

TORONTO - A Canadian family on a round-the-world trip plans to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic on a remote tropical island in the South Pacific despite the risk of dengue fever. Emmanuel Samoglou, his ...

OTTAWA - Indigenous leaders from across Canada say they are worried supports promised by the federal government to help First Nations, Inuit and Metis deal with the fallout of COVID-19 might not do en...

OTTAWA - The federal government is shutting down the network of in-person Service Canada centres over COVID-19 concerns.This includes the Service Canada centre in Red Deer located at 4901 46 Street.So...

Jimmy Wynn, the slugger who earned his nickname of "The Toy Cannon" during his days with the Houston Astros in the 1960s and '70s has died. Wynn was 78. The Astros said he died on Thursday in Houston,...

MEDICINE HAT, AB -With students at home from school indefinitely due to COVID-19 precautions, educators have had to transition into a new way of teaching.Allyson Hall, a grade 4 teacher at Dr. Ken Sau...