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50 additional COVID-19 cases in Alberta
The number of COVID-19 cases in Alberta has risen by 50, according to Wednesday's report from the province, bringing the total to 1,423.That total includes 1,005 cases that are laboratory confirmed an...
Apr 08, 2020
Canada won't tip hand on possibility of import tariffs on Saudi oil
OTTAWA - Canada's energy minister will speak to his U.S. and Mexican counterparts Thursday in a bid to generate a common front ahead of talks by the world's biggest economies aimed at ending the ...
Apr 08, 2020
WATCH: Alberta releases details of COVID-19 data modelling
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, chief medical officer of health, and Dr. Verna Yiu, CEO of Alberta Health Services, will release extensive modelling data projecting the potential heal...
Apr 08, 2020
Cilantro and Chive, local breweries win big at Alberta Beer Awards
The best of Alberta's craft beer scene was celebrated at the 2020 Alberta Beer Awards held during a live-streamed event Tuesday night, and central Alberta was well represented.Created by the Alberta S...
Apr 08, 2020 Cilantro and Chive owners Rieley and Kim Kay celebrate their latest win at the Alberta Beer Awards (Photo: Twitter @Clinatro_chive)
Politicians ask public to work from home, but are they taking their own advice?
Canada's politicians have been urging the public to work from home during the COVID-19 crisis, but a look at federal and provincial leaders suggests not all of them are following their own a...
Apr 08, 2020
Calgary woman who died of COVID-19 was expecting 2020 to be best year: husband
CALGARY - A Calgary man whose wife died of COVID-19 last month says the two of them were expecting 2020 to be the best year of their lives. But things changed quickly in mid-March when Deb Diemer...
Apr 08, 2020
Demographic data 'essential' to track impacts of COVID-19: researchers
OTTAWA - Researchers are calling for more detailed data on who is getting and dying from COVID-19, to find out if specific minority or socioeconomic groups are unduly impacted. The Unit...
Apr 08, 2020
Lafrenière tops list of NHL draft-eligible prospects
Alexis Lafrenire, as expected, maintained the top spot in the NHL Central Scouting Bureau's final ranking of draft-eligible prospects released Wednesday. What remains uncertain for the 18-year-old Rim...
Apr 08, 2020
NHLers reflect on league pause: 'All of a sudden someone turns the car off'
Josh Morrissey figures he has more close friends on the Edmonton Oilers than any other rival NHL team. It led to some unusual heat-of-the-moment conversations for the Winnipeg defenceman the...
Apr 08, 2020
Europe struggles to agree on economic response to virus
BRUSSELS - European governments remained at loggerheads Wednesday over measures to help the economy weather the coronavirus outbreak, breaking off a meeting of finance officials who clashed over aid c...
Apr 08, 2020