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'The thing you do around here:' Prairie fall suppers adjust to COVID-19 reality
Vehicles lined up more than three kilometres along a rural Manitoba road on the last Sunday afternoon of September as their occupants waited to grab a traditional Ukrainian feast in a brown takeout ba...
Oct 04, 2020
Winds of change blow on day of upsets at French Open
PARIS - On a Sunday of upsets among the women at the French Open, revenge was a dish served up in an autumnal chill by a Polish teenager. And it was only partially business as usual for the men, too. ...
Oct 04, 2020
Canadian wheelchair racer Lakatos wins London Marathon; Woodfine runs Tokyo standard
LONDON - Wheelchair racer Brent Lakatos won the London Marathon on Sunday. Fellow Canadian Tristan Woodfine dipped under the Olympic qualifying standard in the men's event. Lakatos crossed in one hour...
Oct 04, 2020
Rocky gets $20 million for new state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant
The federal and provincial governments have awarded the Town of Rocky Mountain House grant money for a new wastewater treatment facility.Just shy of $10.9 million from the Canada Infrastructure Progra...
Oct 04, 2020
Annamie Paul wins Green Party of Canada leadership race
Green Party of Canada members have chosen Toronto's Annamie Paul as their new leader.Paul won a bare majority of votes in the eighth round, defeating Dimitri Lascaris.Paul, who is Black and Jewish, to...
Oct 04, 2020
'I don't want to go through this ever in my life again,' LTC resident tells inquiry
One by one, residents of Ontario's long-term care homes described the emotional devastation caused by the COVID-19 lockdown to an independent inquiry - and implored the governments ...
Oct 04, 2020
Pope: Market capitalism has failed in pandemic, needs reform
ROME - Pope Francis says the coronavirus pandemic has proven that the "magic theories" of market capitalism have failed and that the world needs a new type of politics that promotes dialogue and solid...
Oct 04, 2020
Pope: Market capitalism has failed in pandemic, needs reform
ROME - Pope Francis says the coronavirus pandemic has proven that the "magic theories" of market capitalism have failed and that the world needs a new type of politics that promotes dialogue and solid...
Oct 04, 2020
'I don't want to go through this ever in my life again,' LTC resident tells inquiry
One by one, residents of Ontario's long-term care homes described the emotional devastation caused by the COVID-19 lockdown to an independent inquiry - and implored the governments ...
Oct 04, 2020
Manitoba's chief public health officer discusses lessons learned during pandemic
WINNIPEG - A little more than six months into Manitoba's COVID-19 state of emergency, the province's chief public health officer says there have been lessons learned in terms of fighting the novel cor...
Oct 04, 2020