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Market Watch: April 23
Big Picture Canada unveiled its budget The headline for Canada this week was the federal budget proposal. The government is projecting the deficit to come in at $354 billion this year, 16.1 per cent o...
Apr 23, 2021
Leafs' Tavares set to 'pay it forward' in new partnership with Special Olympics
TORONTO - John Tavares looks back fondly on the casual lunchtime chats and classroom visits where he would lend a hand with school work. And the ball hockey games. Oh, those ball hockey games. "They a...
Apr 23, 2021
Tokyo under 'emergency orders' with Olympics 3 months away
TOKYO - Only three months before the postponed Olympics are set to open, Tokyo and Japan's second largest metropolitan area of Osaka have been placed under emergency orders aimed at stemming surging c...
Apr 23, 2021
Tokyo under 'emergency orders' with Olympics 3 months away
TOKYO - Only three months before the postponed Olympics are set to open, Tokyo and Japan's second largest metropolitan area of Osaka have been placed under emergency orders aimed at stemming surging c...
Apr 23, 2021
No reason to fear doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine provided by U.S., Trudeau says
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians need not worry about doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine coming from the United States. Trudeau says Canada has been assured the doses bei...
Apr 23, 2021
Trudeau calls for culture of tolerance around sexual misconduct in military to end
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the culture of tolerance for sexual harassment and "unacceptable actions" in the Canadian Armed Forces needs to end. Trudeau says Defence Minister Harjit Sa...
Apr 23, 2021
Innisfail council awards contract for ‘Ball Diamond 7’ upgrades
With a funding contribution from council and the input and participation of a dedicated group of community members, significant improvements to 'Ball Diamond 7' (located adjacent to the Innisfail Aren...
Apr 23, 2021
Ceferin: Rebels clubs must reject Super League to avoid ban
The Spanish and Italian clubs still clinging to the Super League must disavow the breakaway or face being banned from the Champions League, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin told The Associated Press ...
Apr 23, 2021
CP NewsAlert: British Columbia restricts travel in the province to fight COVID spread
VICTORIA - Non-essential travel is being restricted between three regional zones in British Columbia to try and curb the spread of COVID-19. The government is using the boundaries of three health auth...
Apr 23, 2021
New trial date set in Rimbey shooting incident
A new trial date has been set for a Lacombe County man charged in a Rimbey shooting last summer.Jade John Edward Slofstra, 32, was scheduled to go to trial on April 21. However, a new trial date has n...
Apr 23, 2021