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COVID-19 pandemic highlights need for more public toilets, experts say
TORONTO - The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting the need for more public toilets in communities across Canada, particularly as softening restrictions encourage people to spend more time outs...
May 21, 2020
GOP rising star John James faces trouble at top of ticket
Michigan Senate candidate John James has been called a rising star of the Republican Party so many times it's become a cliche. The African American combat veteran, business owner and 38-year-old fathe...
May 20, 2020
Cyclone left deaths, much destruction in India, Bangladesh
NEW DELHI - A powerful cyclone that slammed into coastal India and Bangladesh has left damage difficult to assess Thursday and about 20 deaths. In Bangladesh up to eight people have died, and 12 death...
May 20, 2020
Unable to practise at training facility, Impact player breaks foot on routine jog
MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact's inability to hold individual workouts at their training facility has proved to be costly. The MLS club reported Wednesday that midfielder Steeven Saba will be sideline...
May 20, 2020
LaGrange announces stimulus plan for school upkeep and renewal
Alberta Education Minister Adriana LaGrange announced on Wednesday that capital funding for school divisions has been increased by $250 million in a bid to boost the economy, while also accelerating i...
May 20, 2020
Virtual story time the new normal for retired sprinter Justyn Warner and family
TORONTO - Every evening at around 7:30, Justyn Warner curls up with a stack of storybooks to read to his three-year-old daughter Parys until she falls asleep. Her favourite is "The Litt...
May 20, 2020
CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie lays out best-case scenario for 2020 season
TORONTO - Commissioner Randy Ambrosie gave the CFL some much-needed breathing room Wednesday. Ambrosie told CFL season-ticket holders during a video conference the earliest the league could start...
May 20, 2020
Leafs UFA D Tyson Barrie: 'It's a weird time to be heading into free agency'
TORONTO - Tyson Barrie is trying to keep things in perspective. More than 80,000 people in Canada are confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19, and the country's death toll has sur...
May 20, 2020
'Is that all for me?' Girl, 5, who survived triple slaying of family comes home
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A five-year-old girl who survived when her paternal grandparents and brother died in a triple slaying in Saskatchewan came home Tuesday to a welcome that astonished and del...
May 20, 2020
Pandemic response hampered by lack of data-sharing, committee hears
OTTAWA - Experts say difficulties gathering federal data on the spread of COVID-19 has hampered Canada's response to the pandemic. The scathing criticism of Canada's method of gathering crucial inform...
May 20, 2020