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AHS brings curtain down on drive-in movie nights in Mirror
Alberta Health Services (AHS) has put the brakes on a series of drive-in movies in the hamlet of Mirror.Chris Scott, owner of the Whistle Stop Caf in Mirror where the drive-in movies were being screen...
Apr 30, 2020 A recent drive-in movie night at the Whistle Stop Cafe in Mirror. (Supplied)
Ottawa mayor orders end to ban on window visits in city nursing homes
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says he's ordered the people who run the city's nursing homes to find a way to let family members visit residents through windows again. The four municipal homes' administrator...
Apr 30, 2020
Red Deer RCMP say job seekers targeted in new online scam
Red Deer RCMP are warning the public about a new scam that involves both online game stores and online job websites. Police say the scam begins with fraudsters contacting individuals after they've pos...
Apr 30, 2020
Hundreds protest COVID-19 restrictions at Alberta legislature
Around 200 people attended an "End the Lockdown" protest Wednesday at the Alberta legislature.The crowd called on the province to increase the limit on the number who can gather due to COVID-19 and to...
Apr 30, 2020
Nunavut confirms first case of COVID-19 in Pond Inlet
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut says it has its first case of COVID-19. The territory's chief public health officer, Dr. Michael Patterson, says the case was detected in the community of Pond Inlet. "We di...
Apr 30, 2020
US intel: Coronavirus not manmade, still studying lab theory
WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the new coronavirus was "not manmade or genetically modified" but say they are still examining whether the origins of the pandemic trace to ...
Apr 30, 2020
One man dead amid flooding in northern Alberta
One person has died as a result of flooding in northern Alberta.Officials with the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo said the death occurred near the Athabasca River near Fort McKay, about 60 kilo...
Apr 30, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 10:45 a.m. Ontario is reporting 459 new COVID-19 cases today, and 86 more deaths - the largest daily death toll ...
Apr 30, 2020
Outsiders consider possibility of chaos in North Korea
TOKYO - North Korea's collapse has been predicted - wrongly- for decades. Some said it would happen after fighting ended in the Korean War in 1953. Others thought it would be during a 1990s famine or ...
Apr 30, 2020
About 50 bodies found in trucks outside NY funeral home
NEW YORK - Police were called to a Brooklyn neighbourhood Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby com...
Apr 30, 2020