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Despite pandemic-delayed season, Bucs still supporting community
The Central Alberta Buccaneers would be gearing up for another Alberta Football League season right now, if it weren't for the COVID-19 pandemic. Setters Place in Red Deer, the Bucs' home turf, is cur...
Mar 28, 2020
Province working with Indigenous government to ensure protection from COVID-19
The Government of Alberta says it continues to do everything possible to ensure Indigenous people in Alberta are included in pandemic planning and response.Rick Wilson, Minister of Indigenous Relation...
Mar 28, 2020 Grand
Chief Billy Morin of the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations speaks at a press conference Saturday morning after the media heard from Rick Wilson, the Minister of Indigenous Affairs. (Government of Alberta)
Rosneft hands Venezuelan oil business to Russian state firm
MOSCOW - Russia's Rosneft oil company said Saturday that it's halting operations in Venezuela and selling its assets there to a company fully owned by the Russian government, a move apparently intende...
Mar 28, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 2:15 p.m. on March 28, 2020: There are 5,416 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 2,498 confirmed (includ...
Mar 28, 2020
Red Deer's MPs say they'll donate legislated April 1 raises
Local MPs Blaine Calkins (Red Deer-Lacombe) and Earl Dreeshen (Red Deer-Mountain View) have released a joint statement saying they'll be donating their 2020 raise which comes into effect April 1.The r...
Mar 28, 2020 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Second Colorado Avalanche player tests positive for COVID-19
DENVER - A second player on the Colorado Avalanche has tested positive for COVID-19, the team announced Saturday afternoon. The player is in self-isolation and all other Avalanche players and sta...
Mar 28, 2020
Alberta MLAs to reconvene March 31
Members of Alberta's Legislative Assembly will return to their desks this week in order to debate important legislation related to the COVID-19 pandemic.Government House Leader Jason Nixon made the an...
Mar 28, 2020 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Trudeau: Those with symptoms won't be allowed to board domestic flights
Effective at noon eastern time on Monday, March 30, anyone displaying COVID-19 symptoms will not be allowed to board a flight within Canada or leaving Canada.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced th...
Mar 28, 2020 (Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld)
Former Sen. Tom Coburn, known as a political maverick, dies
OKLAHOMA CITY - Former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma family doctor who earned a reputation as a conservative political maverick as he railed against federal earmarks and subsidies for the rich, ha...
Mar 28, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 11 a.m The federal government says it is working with its counterparts in Panama and a cruise line to get mor...
Mar 28, 2020