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Red Deer sets active cases record after brief plateau
Red Deer hit a new record high for active cases of COVID-19 on Saturday with 434, a net increase of 16 once recoveries are taken into account.The previous high was 425 on Dec. 13, but it had dipped ba...
Dec 19, 2020
CP NewsAlert: Canada passes 500,000 COVID-19 cases following Saskatchewan report
Canada has surpassed 500,000 cases of COVID-19 as infections continue to surge in several provinces.Saskatchewan pushed the country over the grim threshold today, with 252 new cases reported.Earlier i...
Dec 19, 2020
World junior hockey championship pre-tournament games reduced because of COVID-19
EDMONTON - Canada won't play Sweden in a pre-tournament game before the world junior hockey championship in Edmonton because of Sweden's extended quarantine. Exhibition games scheduled for Sunday and ...
Dec 19, 2020
Man from Ontario dead after central Alberta crash
A 26-year-old male from Ottawa has died after a motor vehicle collision near Rimbey on Friday night.Cpl. Curtis Peters with Alberta RCMP says a call came in around 8:50 about a head-on crash between a...
Dec 19, 2020
CP NewsAlert: Canada passes 500,000 COVID-19 cases following Saskatchewan report
Canada has surpassed 500,000 cases of COVID-19 as infections continue to surge in several provinces. Saskatchewan pushed the country over the grim threshold today, with 252 new cases reported. Earlier...
Dec 19, 2020
Israeli PM joins world leaders getting COVID-19 vaccine
TEL AVIV, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was vaccinated against the coronavirus on live television Saturday, becoming the first Israeli and one of the world's leaders to be inocula...
Dec 19, 2020
First New Brunswick vaccinations begin at nursing home in Miramichi
MIRAMICHI, N.B. - New Brunswick started its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Saturday with the inoculation of an 84-year-old nursing home resident who said needles don't bother her in the least. Pauli...
Dec 19, 2020
AJHL looking for path to return to play
The Alberta Junior Hockey League wants to get back on the ice.The league's board of governors met on Friday to discuss the future of the current season, which the AJHL was actually able to drop the pu...
Dec 19, 2020
Mayor Veer says there’s work to do after divisive year in Red Deer
Red Deer's mayor says she looks forward to never again having to speak about "unprecedented times" or ask someone on Zoom to mute their microphone.Calling 2020 "a year unlike any other," Tara Veer say...
Dec 19, 2020
Air search off N.S. coast suspended until Sunday for missing scallop fishermen
HILLSBURN, N.S. - The aerial search for five fishermen who were working on a scallop boat when it sank in the Bay of Fundy has been suspended until Sunday, and the ground search has been called off in...
Dec 19, 2020