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Buying time; Tokyo Games postponement a boon for injured Canadian athletes
When TJ Sanders isn't on the volleyball court running Canada's offence, he's often laying on his back with his feet on a chair courtside. Canada's starting setter has managed a painful back injur...
Apr 01, 2020
Student presses Thompson Rivers University to offer pass-fail option during pandemic
KAMLOOPS - A fourth-year student at Thompson Rivers University is calling on the school to give students a "pass or fail" option for courses taking place in the second semester of the current school y...
Apr 01, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment leaders take pay cuts in wake of COVID-19
TORONTO - Top Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment executives are taking pay cuts in the wake of COVID-19 shutting down the company's sports and entertainment business. A memo to MLSE ...
Apr 01, 2020
‘Relief is coming’: BC Hydro offers three month credit to customers financially affected by COVID-19
VANCOUVER - Premier John Horgan along with Bruce Ralston, Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources announced this afternoon that relief is coming for BC Hydro customers who have been affected...
Apr 01, 2020 Image Credit: Government of B.C.
Scenarios for Indigenous COVID-19 response include calling in the army: Miller
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the federal government is ready to call in the army to help First Nations, Inuit or Metis communities contend with COVID-19. Indigenous leaders f...
Apr 01, 2020
Ujiri would love to season salvaged, but global health should be focus right now
TORONTO - Masai Ujiri would love to see the remainder of the NBA season salvaged somehow. But the Toronto Raptors president said, amid the global COVID-19 pandemic that has brought the sports world to...
Apr 01, 2020
Wolfpack stuck between a rock and a hard place as rugby league ponders future
TORONTO - As English rugby league faces an uncertain future due to COVID-19, the Toronto Wolfpack find themselves once again between a rock and a hard place. The team's next payday comes the...
Apr 01, 2020
Unemployed during COVID-19? Here's how to navigate federal programs
A quick look at some of the federal COVID-19 benefit programs and who qualifies for assistance: Canada Emergency Response Benefit The CERB pays a monthly $2,000 payment to workers who wouldn't ot...
Apr 01, 2020
SOUND OFF: Learning begins — be mindful of the challenges
ON MARCH 17, the people of British Columbia learned that in-class learning in schools throughout the province was suspended due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. This week, a full week ahead of the vas...
Apr 01, 2020 Image Credit: School District 73
UEFA postpones more soccer amid uncertainty over resumption
UEFA postponed more matches and deadlines on Wednesday without giving any firm indication on when European soccer might be able to resume, as it continues to grapple with the challenge of completing c...
Apr 01, 2020
