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Brooks reopens, gets a back a feeling of normalcy after being rocked by COVID-19
BROOKS, AB - It's hard not to notice the difference the provincial Stage 1 reopening has made to life in the city of Brooks. Last month, as the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic hit home for residents of...
May 25, 2020
Alberta's tourism industry playing the waiting game
It's Tourism Week in Alberta even though the industry remains essentially shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic. The industry has, "completely collapsed," since the pandemic began, according to Linda Sou...
May 25, 2020
Salmon expected to begin arriving soon at Fraser River landslide: DFO
VANCOUVER - Parts of a pneumatic fish pump dubbed the salmon cannon have arrived at the site of a massive landslide along British Columbia's Fraser River, where Fisheries and Oceans Canada e...
May 25, 2020
No evidence mosquitos spread COVID-19
Alberta's top doctor says there's one thing you don't have to worry about while taking part in outdoor activities during the ongoing pandemic. Dr. Deena Hinshaw explained on Monday that there's no evi...
May 25, 2020
Hinshaw says Alberta making PPE distribution changes
Alberta's chief medical officer of health says the province will change how it distributes personal protection equipment in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Deena Hinshaw made the announcement M...
May 25, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 5:30 p.m. ET on May 25, 2020: There are 85,698 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 47,984 conf...
May 25, 2020
COVID-19 recoveries in Alberta near 6,000
Nearly six thousand Albertans have now recovered from COVID 19.In her latest update Monday afternoon, Dr. Deena Hinshaw listed the number of recoveries in our province at 5979. Alberta's chief medical...
May 25, 2020
'One for the history books:' Horse racing back but without cheering crowds
WINNIPEG - A horse track in Manitoba has had some significant moments in its more than 60 years of racing, but animals charging around the oval loop before empty stands will be historic. "It's going t...
May 25, 2020
Montreal Impact return to training centre for individual outdoor workouts
MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact returned to their training centre Monday for their first individual outdoor practice sessions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Impact players had been training on their...
May 25, 2020
Jimmy Cobb, 'Kind of Blue' drummer for Miles Davis, dies
Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis' 1959 "Kind of Blue" groundbreaking jazz album which transformed the genre and sparked several careers, died Sunday. His wife, ...
May 25, 2020