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B.C. faith leaders participate in COVID-19 conference call with premier
VICTORIA - B.C. Premier John Horgan held a conference call today with faith leaders to discuss the COVID-19 outbreak, which the World Health Organization has declared a pandemic. Provincial ...
Mar 11, 2020
Women's world hockey cancellation hits Nova Scotia player, coach hard
Blayre Turnbull was 10 years old when she saw the first women's world hockey championship played in her home province. A chance to follow in those players' footsteps was denied Saturday when...
Mar 11, 2020
Only essential staff and limited family at NCAA tournaments
NCAA tournament games will not be open to the general public because of concerns about the spread of coronavirus. NCAA President Mark Emmert said Wednesday that he made the decision to conduct both th...
Mar 11, 2020
Virus prompts late shows to drop audiences, ‘Survivor’ delay
LOS ANGELES - The ripple effect of the new coronavirus on the entertainment industry reached late-night television and far beyond to the series "Survivor" in Fiji. "The Tonight Show" and other late-ni...
Mar 11, 2020
Passengers on last flight into Canada from Rome talk of empty city
MONTREAL - Travellers arrived on the last Air Canada flight from Rome to Montreal today talking about an empty city that felt under siege from the novel coronavirus. Doris Hamelin and her husband...
Mar 11, 2020
Criminal case against top military judge collapses, charges withdrawn
OTTAWA - The criminal case against Canada's top military judge has collapsed. The Canadian Armed Forces' top prosecutor announced Wednesday that he was withdrawing all four charges against chief milit...
Mar 11, 2020
Only essential staff and limited family at NCAA tournaments
NCAA President Mark Emmert says NCAA Division I basketball tournament games will not be open to the general public because of concerns about the spread of coronavirus. Emmert said in a statement Wedne...
Mar 11, 2020
Canadian teen Thorsteinson eager to face big league bats in game against Jays
Canadian teenager Justin Thorsteinson wants to be challenged whenever he steps on a mound. If that means facing the most feared hitters in the Blue Jays lineup, he'll take it - gladly. Thorsteins...
Mar 11, 2020
Wood debris piles to be burned near Merritt
MERRITT - Don't be alarmed by the sight of smoke rising from a forested area near Nicola Lake northeast of Merritt over the next few weeks. The BC Wildfire Service is burning off about 150 piles of wo...
Mar 11, 2020
SOUND OFF: An update from Ottawa on COVID-19
IT HAS BEEN SEVEN DAYS since my report last week on the subject of the COVID-19 virus. Since that time the World Health Organization (WHO) has upgraded the spread of the outbreak, from declaring a pub...
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