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Travel bans grow amid warnings viral pandemic will worsen
ROME - Sweeping travel bans accelerated around the globe Thursday, walling regions apart, keeping people inside their homes and slowing the engines of commerce to try to stem the unfolding coronavirus...
Mar 12, 2020
Virus lockdown means Italy's old are isolated from relatives
ROME - Natalina De Santis' three adult children come to her front door, bringing food to keep her healthy and books to relieve her boredom, but she doesn't let them in any more. Widowed a few months a...
Mar 12, 2020
Birchcliff Energy latest company to cut capital spending
CALGARY- Players in the oilpatch are continuing to cut capital spending plans in the wake of this week's sharp plunge in oil prices.After the markets closed yesterday, Birchcliff Energy said it would ...
Mar 12, 2020
New Brunswick premier won't attend first ministers meeting because of COVID-19
FREDERICTON - A spokeswoman for New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says he will not attend the first ministers meeting today in Ottawa now that his province has reported its first presumptive cas...
Mar 12, 2020
Fate of NHL season unclear after NBA campaign suspended for positive coronavirus test
NEW YORK - The NHL says it is evaluating its options for the rest of the 2019-20 season after the NBA suspended its season until further notice on Wednesday night. The NBA made its decision after...
Mar 12, 2020
Beothuk remains returned to Newfoundland after almost two centuries in Scotland
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The remains of two Indigenous people have been returned to Newfoundland from Scotland after being stolen from a grave site on the island almost two centuries ago. Representatives fr...
Mar 12, 2020
Burger of the Month raises over $1,100 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lacombe and District
LACOMBE- Does it get much better than not one but two guest chef's and two burgers?It was a first for our Burger of the Month Program and it was a hit.Local guest chef's Alvin and Helen Peck provided ...
Mar 12, 2020 (February’s Burger of
the Month “Two of a Kind”, created in collaboration with local guest chef’s Helen and Alvin Peck. $2 from every burger sold went directly to Big
Brothers Big Sisters of Lacombe and District, with a total of $1,160 turned
over on March 11)
Defence in Schlatter trial to call man they say could be alternate suspect
TORONTO - Defence lawyers for a Toronto man accused of strangling a young woman are expected to call as a witness today a man they suggest could be an alternate suspect. Lawyers representing Kale...
Mar 12, 2020
Iran to call dead medical staff 'martrys' as virus kills 291
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran will recognize doctors and nurses who die combating the new coronavirus as "martyrs" like slain soldiers, the country's supreme leader announced Tuesday as the outbreak killed 54 m...
Mar 12, 2020
Trump's ban on travel from Europe poses questions for Canada-U.S. border
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump is slamming America's door on most foreign nationals who were recently in Europe - a drastic step in response to an accelerating global pandemic that, should i...
Mar 12, 2020