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Good deed toilet paper sale benefits Sylvan Lake charity
A Sylvan Lake resident and business owner has taken the toilet paper hoarding issue into his own hands, and flipped it upside down.Mike Williams, who runs Western Business Solutions, says they don't t...
Mar 14, 2020

Canadian curling continues to get hammered by novel coronavirus cancellations
Brad Gushue's curling team will not wear the Maple Leaf in Scotland and Canada has lost more world championships because of concerns over the spread of COVID-19. The World Curling Federation canc...
Mar 14, 2020

Raptors "travel party" tests negative for coronavirus after contact with Jazz
TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors have received a clean bill of health. All players and staff received negative results from their COVID-19 tests, the team said in a statement on Saturday. "Those who...
Mar 14, 2020

Canada's Olympic champ Wiebe, teammate Lappage book their Tokyo tickets
OTTAWA - Canada's Olympic wrestling champion Erica Wiebe has booked her ticket to the Tokyo Olympics. The 30-year-old from Stittsville, Ont., won her semifinal bout at 76 kilograms at the Pan-American...
Mar 14, 2020

Hundreds show up to Ottawa COVID-19 assessment centre, but few actually tested
OTTAWA - Many of the hundreds of people descending on Canada's first dedicated COVID-19 assessment centre went home without being tested on Saturday as they fell short of the criteria r...
Mar 14, 2020

International traveller is 1st case of new virus in Maine
AUGUSTA, Maine - A woman in her 50s who travelled internationally is the first person in Maine to test positive for the coronavirus after voluntarily isolating herself and reporting to a hospital emer...
Mar 14, 2020

CP NewsAlert: MLB postpones operations indefinitely due to COVID-19
Major League Baseball has postponed the start of the regular season by at least two weeks and cancelled the rest of spring training due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More coming. The Canadi...
Mar 14, 2020

Cunnington continuing prep for 2020 Paralympics despite risk of cancellation
A Canadian Paralympian from Red Deer says it would certainly be strange to perform at the Paralympics without fans.That is to say, Tammy Cunnington admits, if the Paralympics and Olympics even take pl...
Mar 14, 2020 Red Deer's Tammy Cunnington, seen here at Olympic and Paralympic Trials in April 2016. (Scott Grant)

Rome-based UN food agency grapples with Italian coronavirus lockdown
OTTAWA - These days, no roads lead to Rome for David Beasley. The executive director of the United Nations World Food Program made that clear on a trip to Ottawa this week, where he was trying to rais...
Mar 14, 2020

World Cup cross-country event in Canmore cancelled
CANMORE, Alta. - A World Cup cross-country ski event scheduled for next week in Canmore, Alta., has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The FIS, the world governing body for skiing, annou...
Mar 14, 2020