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US officials tell AP: Russia spreading virus disinformation
WASHINGTON - Russian intelligence operatives are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggli...
Jul 28, 2020
Western Canada businesses get $95M in federal support
OTTAWA - Alberta businesses have benefitted from $95 million in federal funding to support businesses of all sizes across Western Canada.Melanie Joly, the Minister of Economic Development and Official...
Jul 28, 2020
Raptors Uprising looks to set NBA 2K League esports mark for consecutive wins
TORONTO - Raptors Uprising GC continues its assault on the NBA 2K League record book this week. Fresh off winning The Turn, a US$260,000 in-season tournament, the Raptors turn their attentio...
Jul 28, 2020
AMC, Universal agree to shorten window after 'Trolls' tiff
NEW YORK - In a sign of how the pandemic is remaking Hollywood traditions, AMC Theatres and Universal Studios on Tuesday announced an agreement for a shortened theatrical window, with the studio's fil...
Jul 28, 2020
About 50 kittens at APARC up for adoption
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Alberta Pound & Rescue Centre (APARC) has about 50 kittens that need a home this summer.APARC Volunteer Samuel Sandidge says some have been adopted over the past week.But it's t...
Jul 28, 2020
Work at Kingsway Avenue and Seventh Street SE delayed
MEDICINE HAT, AB - A planned intersection closure related to replacing aging water and sewer infrastructure on Seventh Street SE has been pushed back by one week.The intersection of Kingsway Avenue an...
Jul 28, 2020
Baseball season teeters, while states resist mask rules
JACKSON, Miss. - The baseball season descended deeper into crisis Tuesday, states such as Mississippi and South Carolina cast about for more hospital beds, and governors in some of the hardest-hit pla...
Jul 28, 2020
Stigmatizing Hutterites about COVID-19 will harm response: public health officer
OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says discrimination against Hutterites will not help build trust as some colonies across the Prairies experience outbreaks of COVID-19. "The surrounding c...
Jul 28, 2020
Venice Film Festival unveils selections for September fete
The American frontier drama "The World to Come," the Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren comedy-drama "The Duke," Gia Coppola's "Mainstream," and the Shia LaBeouf and Vanessa Kirby drama "Pieces of a Woman...
Jul 28, 2020
Kingston youth pleads guilty to terror charges after January 2019 arrest
OTTAWA - A Kingston, Ont., youth has pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges for trying to persuade someone to plant a bomb. The youth, who cannot be identified under terms of the Youth ...
Jul 28, 2020