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WCT returns with streaming performance of Leonard Cohen-themed production
KAMLOOPS - For self-isolaters missing the live theatre experience, Western Canada Theatre (WCT) has the next best thing planned.WCT says it will put on a live streaming production of Chelsea Hotel: So...
Mar 25, 2020 Image Credit: Western Canada Theatre
Canadian international forward Brett Beukeboom retires from rugby
Canadian international lock Brett Beukeboom, captain of England's Cornish Pirates, has announced his retirement from rugby. The Pirates, who play in England's second-tier Championship, said ...
Mar 25, 2020
CFLPA tells players to prepare for the worst regarding COVID-19 pandemic
TORONTO - The CFL hasn't pushed back the start of training camps and its 2020 regular season due to the COVID-19 pandemic just yet. But new CFLPA president Solomon Elimimian is telling players to...
Mar 25, 2020
VIDEO: Kamloops couple bids farewell to eyebrows in commitment to self-isolation
KAMLOOPS - We could all use a good laugh right now.Justine Manuel and Justin Young, from Kamloops, decided to make the best of a bad situation."Laughter is healing," Young wrote in a Facebook post. "W...
Mar 25, 2020 Image Credit: Facebook / Justin Young
Travellers coming back to Canada will be mandated to isolate, feds say
OTTAWA - Anyone returning to Canada from abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic will no longer just be asked to self-isolate upon their return - that order is now mandatory.Health Minister Patty Hajdu s...
Mar 25, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
Trudeau reminds travellers returning to Canada to self-isolate at home
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reminding travellers who are returning to Canada that they are "required" to isolate themselves at home for 14 days. But Trudeau won't say if his Lib...
Mar 25, 2020
Running coach Dave Scott-Thomas banned for life by Athletics Canada
OTTAWA - Canadian running coach Dave Scott-Thomas has been given a lifetime ban from track and field by Athletics Canada. Scott-Thomas has been accused of inappropriate relationships with athlete...
Mar 25, 2020
Bach invokes Trump in defence of Olympic decision
GENEVA - A day after officially postponing the Tokyo Olympics, IOC president Thomas Bach invoked comments by President Donald Trump to defend himself from criticism on Wednesday. Bach spoke to about 4...
Mar 25, 2020
Major League Soccer extends team training moratorium during COVID-19 outbreak
TORONTO - The season suspended because of COVID-19, Major League Soccer has extended its team training moratorium through April 3. MLS training facilities remain closed with the exception of play...
Mar 25, 2020
Canadians who have lost their jobs anxiously awaiting federal help
TORONTO - Canadians who have lost their jobs due to COVID-19 and are struggling to make ends meet anxiously awaited promised federal help with the Senate set to take up an emergency $82-billion f...
Mar 25, 2020
