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Open Door Group's annual plant sale going ahead — with some changes
KAMLOOPS - With physical distancing and isolation measures in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people are occupying their time with different hobbies.One of the activities gaining more popularity i...
Apr 15, 2020 Image Credit: Facebook / Open Door Group
Premiers don't want Emergencies Act used during COVID-19 pandemic
REGINA - Canada's premiers have sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying they do not want the Emergencies Act invoked over COVID-19. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe's office said the lette...
Apr 15, 2020
Trudeau bats away WHO questions, says Canada focused on fighting COVID-19
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused Wednesday to join the escalating global debate about the World Health Organization's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, insisting Canada remains f...
Apr 15, 2020
'What's going to happen?' Alberta teen recounts brush with death from COVID-19
OKOTOKS, Alta. - Matt Greenshields never worried about COVID-19 until he found himself thinking about death as he was being wheeled down the empty, darkened hallways of a hospital on his way...
Apr 15, 2020
Canada needs to increase testing capacity before life can return to normal: PM
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada needs a much greater capacity to test for the novel coronavirus before life can return to normal. The federal government and public health officials ...
Apr 15, 2020
Harsh policing and big fines don't make people safer from COVID-19: criminologists
Corey Yanofsky, a data scientist living in Ottawa, took his dog out for a walk last week and ended up with an $880 fine for standing in the wrong place during the COVID-19 pan...
Apr 15, 2020
Wolfpack player James Cunningham likely laid low by virus after hamstring surgery
James Cunningham just wasn't feeling right, as if he was about to come down with something. So the Toronto Wolfpack hooker/scrum half, recovering from earlier hamstring surgery, was sent home some fiv...
Apr 15, 2020
Barker feels COVID-19 pandemic robbed XFL of time to establish a following
TORONTO - Jim Barker remains a member of a rare pro football fraternity. In 2001, Barker was the offensive co-ordinator with the Los Angeles Xtreme team that captured the first - and on...
Apr 15, 2020
CERB expanded to some who ran out of EI, part-timers and seasonal workers
OTTAWA - In his morning address to the nation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday announced expanded eligibility rules for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit and a plan to top up pay for so...
Apr 15, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
RCMP renew call for information after body found in Kamloops last week
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP are renewing their request for information into a body that was found in Westsyde last week.The body of 37-year-old Brandon Thomas Malkinson was found last Thursday (Apr. 9) i...
Apr 15, 2020 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
