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Feds double pandemic aid for food banks, add a second $100 million in support
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Ottawa is doubling pandemic aid for the nation's food banks today. Another $100 million is being added to the Emergency Food Security Fund so food ban...
Oct 09, 2020
NHL free agency opens amid economic uncertainty brought on by COVID-19 pandemic
The Toronto Maple Leafs hit the ground running at the opening bell of NHL free agency. The club signed gritty, hometown winger Wayne Simmonds to a one-year, US$1.5-million contract shortly after the m...
Oct 09, 2020
Canadian ECHL teams will start after some of American counterparts in next season
PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL plans a two-phased start to its 2020-21 season during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirteen of the 25 active teams will begin play Dec. 11 and the other 12 kick off on Jan. 15, 20...
Oct 09, 2020
'Friendsgiving': N.S. students create new holiday traditions inside Atlantic bubble
HALIFAX - Haneesha Relwani, third-year marketing student at Acadia University, would normally be preparing at this time of year to travel home to St. Kitts and Nevis to see family. Instead, she and ma...
Oct 09, 2020
Maple Leafs sign gritty winger Wayne Simmonds to one-year, US$1.5-million contract
TORONTO - Wayne Simmonds has decided to go home. The gritty winger from Toronto signed a one-year, US$1.5-million contract with the Maple Leafs as NHL free agency opened Friday. Simmonds, 32, has regi...
Oct 09, 2020
Chantal Kreviazuk, more YukYuks announced for Esplanade
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Esplanade continues to fill its fall schedule with music and comedy.This week the Esplanade announced Chantal Kreviazuk (Oct. 20), Michael Bernard Fitzgerald (Nov. 14) and a fou...
Oct 09, 2020
Jury shown more videos and pictures dealing with 'demons' from computer of accused
FREDERICTON - The jury hearing the trial into the shooting deaths of four people in Fredericton in 2018 has been shown more videos and pictures from the computer of the accused. Matthew Raymond is cha...
Oct 09, 2020
Whitey Ford, 91, pitcher who epitomized mighty Yankees, dies
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. - Whitey Ford, the street-smart New Yorker who had the best winning percentage of any pitcher in the 20th century and helped the Yankees become baseball's perennial champions in the...
Oct 09, 2020
Trudeau needs to halt byelections as COVID-19 surges in Toronto, Green leader says
OTTAWA - Green party Leader Annamie Paul says with COVID-19 cases rising in Toronto, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should suspend two byelections underway there. Paul, who took the reins of the Green ...
Oct 09, 2020
For seventh time in eight days, Quebec reports more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases
MONTREAL - Quebec health authorities are reporting 1,102 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases in the province to 84,094. This is the seventh time in eight days there have been mor...
Oct 09, 2020