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Red Deer's active case count creeps up for sixth straight day
Alberta is reporting 383 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday.With 647 more recoveries, active cases drop 275 to 7,530.With 10,377 tests done in the last day, today's positivity rate drops by about nine-...
Jan 30, 2021

Former Canadian amateur boxing champion Moe Zawadi turns pro
TORONTO - Former Canadian amateur boxing champion Moe Zawadi is turning pro. The 19-year-old middleweight from Barrie, Ont., has signed with Toronto-based Lee Baxter Promotions and is expected to make...
Jan 30, 2021

As California virus cases fall, more people than ever dying
LOS ANGELES - As a hospice nurse, Antonio Espinoza worked to ease people's passage into death. Just 36 years old, it seemed unlikely he soon would be on that journey. But when the unpredictable corona...
Jan 30, 2021

Famous private eye Jack Palladino gravely injured in robbery
SAN FRANCISCO - Jack Palladino, the private investigator who worked on high-profile cases ranging from the Jonestown mass suicides to celebrity and political scandals, has been placed on life support ...
Jan 30, 2021

Former Canadian amateur boxing champion Moe Zawadi turns pro
TORONTO - Former Canadian amateur boxing champion Moe Zawadi is turning pro. The 19-year-old middleweight from Barrie, Ont., has signed with Toronto-based Lee Baxter Promotions and is expected to make...
Jan 30, 2021

As California virus cases fall, more people than ever dying
LOS ANGELES - As a hospice nurse, Antonio Espinoza worked to ease people's passage into death. Just 36 years old, it seemed unlikely he soon would be on that journey. But when the unpredictable corona...
Jan 30, 2021

'100 per cent Indigenous:' New mask factory on Alberta reserve to employ band members
EDMONTON - What business school teaches in four years, Jacob Faithful says he learned in four months. The Alberta man from the Frog Lake First Nations says he's worked through several headaches that c...
Jan 30, 2021

Edgar Wright explores ‘glam rock anomaly’ Sparks in doc
Ever heard of the band Sparks? If you haven't, you're not alone. If you have, it's not unlikely that they're one of your favourite bands. The pop rock duo formed by brothers Ron and Russell Mael has i...
Jan 30, 2021

'100 per cent Indigenous:' New mask factory on Alberta reserve to employ band members
EDMONTON - What business school teaches in four years, Jacob Faithful says he learned in four months. The Alberta man from the Frog Lake First Nations says he's worked through several headaches that c...
Jan 30, 2021

New book sees a 'New Possible' emerging from 2020's tumult
SAN RAMON, Calif. - In pop culture, 2020 has been understandably reviled as the "hell year." It tormented us with a lethal pandemic spiraling out of control, thousands of shuttered businesses, violent...
Jan 30, 2021