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Manitoba tightens COVID-19 rules as Ontario considers loosening them
TORONTO - Manitoba is looking into imposing a curfew to help contain the spread of COVID-19 as Ontario considers whether to loosen restrictions in some hot spots. Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says...
Nov 02, 2020
ALERT seeing more child exploitation, drug cases during pandemic
The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) is working through the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic like everyone else.CEO Dwayne Lakusta says that among other things, the pandemic has caused a ...
Nov 02, 2020
Report: South Dakota official distracted before fatal crash
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was distracted before he drove onto a highway shoulder where he struck and killed a pedestrian in September, state Secretary of Public...
Nov 02, 2020
MacKay says he won't run in next federal election after failed leadership bid
OTTAWA - Former Justice Minister Peter MacKay says he won't be on the ballot in the next federal election. Two months ago MacKay finished second to Erin O'Toole in the Conservative leadership contest ...
Nov 02, 2020
Court challenge to Quebec's secularism law, Bill 21, opens in Montreal
MONTREAL - The first witness in the legal challenge of Quebec's secularism law told the court today the legislation makes her feel excluded from society. Ichrak Nourel Hak, a teacher who wears the hij...
Nov 02, 2020
Firms with more robots also have more workers overall, Statistics Canada study says
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says domestic firms that invested in robots since the late 1990s have also expanded their human workforces, suggesting a less than "apocalyptic" result for workers overall. ...
Nov 02, 2020
Edmonton Oilers sign Draisaitl teammate Dominik Kahun
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Dominik Kahun, who has experience playing alongside Oilers star Leon Draisaitl.Kahun and the Oilers agreed to a one-year contract worth US$975,000.Th...
Nov 02, 2020
Prosecutors oppose release of Quebec woman accused of mailing poison to Donald Trump
Prosecutors in the United States say a Canadian woman accused of sending poisoned letters to President Donald Trump is too dangerous to be released. In a memo filed with the Washington D.C. district c...
Nov 02, 2020
Canada's alpine ski team navigates complex decisions to race this winter
Erik Read wants to "stay positive, test negative" on the longest road trip of his life. Valerie Grenier just completed her second quarantine at home in three months. Canada's alpine ski racers are tra...
Nov 02, 2020
Ellis Bird Farm site manager retires after 33 years
A local who helped change a farm east of Blackfalds into a beautiful nature sanctuary is calling it a career. After 33 years, site manager Myrna Pearman has retired from Ellis Bird Farm.On Oct. 30, th...
Nov 02, 2020