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Payment for City of Red Deer lots and monthly parking to resume August 4
As of Tuesday, August 4, The City of Red Deer will be reinstating the requirement of payment for daily and monthly parking in its downtown parking lots.During the initial stages of The City's municipa...
Jul 30, 2020
NewsAlert: Manitoba says schools will resume classroom learning in September
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government says most students are to be back in classrooms on Sept. 8, but there will be new guidelines to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19. All students from kinderg...
Jul 30, 2020
A look at how provinces are planning for start of school year during pandemic
Plans are being made across the country for how to safely send students back to school in the fall as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Here is a look at what the various provinces have said ...
Jul 30, 2020
Record economic plunge, bleak jobs numbers reveal virus toll
WASHINGTON - The coronavirus pandemic sent the U.S. economy plunging by a record-shattering 32.9% annual rate last quarter and is still inflicting damage across the country, squeezing already struggli...
Jul 30, 2020
AstraZeneca: won't profit from COVID-19 vaccine in pandemic
LONDON - Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca repeated its promise not to profit from a COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic as it reported it was on track with late-stage trials for the treatment. Such...
Jul 30, 2020
Ponoka man charged in Maskwacis homicide
MONTANA FIRST NATION - The RCMP Major Crimes Unit have laid a charge of second degree murder following a death on the Montana First Nation on Tuesday.It was just before 11 p.m. when Maskwacis RCMP res...
Jul 30, 2020
Ottawa imposes stricter rules for Americans travelling through Canada to Alaska
OTTAWA - The federal government is tightening the rules for non-essential American travellers passing through Canada en route to Alaska, in order to reduce the time spent in the country during th...
Jul 30, 2020
Judge grants bail to Calgary man facing terrorism charges
CALGARY - A judge has granted bail to a Calgary man facing four terrorism charges. The charges against Hussein Sobhe Borhot include participation in activity of a terrorism group and commiss...
Jul 30, 2020
Four major airports begin screening passengers for elevated temperatures
Four major Canadian airports will begin taking passengers' temperatures starting today as part of the effort to curb the spread of COVID-19. The federal government says temperature screening...
Jul 30, 2020
American who attacked N.S. women sentenced for fleeing to Canada in 1996
HALIFAX - A New York state judge has sentenced a man who committed violent sexual crimes in Nova Scotia to between two and six years of additional jail time for absconding fro...
Jul 30, 2020