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Alouettes starter Adams Jr. looking to build upon Alouettes' stellar '19 season
Montreal Alouettes quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. won't be heart-broken if training camp is pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Camps are scheduled to open May 17 but...
Mar 26, 2020
CHARBONNEAU: Coronavirus as news
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS A FACT. It is also news.The difference between facts and "the news" is that facts don't always become news, not because those facts aren't consequential but because the new...
Mar 26, 2020 Image Credit: Flickr / Government of B.C.
B.C. announces new supports for seniors living at home during COVID-19 pandemic
VICTORIA - The provincial government and B.C.'s Seniors Advocate say help is on the way for seniors living at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie said during a news con...
Mar 26, 2020 Image Credit: BC Government
Researchers balancing scientific rigour with speed to find COVID-19 treatment
OTTAWA - Experts say researchers racing against time to provide a proven treatment for COVID-19 will have to balance scientific rigour against speed. Clinical trials for possible treatments and cures ...
Mar 26, 2020
United Way's initial Period Promise campaign raises a bounty for Kamloops women and girls
KAMLOOPS - The local United Way is celebrating after its Period Promise campaign raised more than 21,000 menstrual products for women and girls who need them.According to a news release from United Wa...
Mar 26, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
Troops in Ukraine to return next month, will be replaced with smaller force
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces plans to withdraw the 200 troops it currently has in Ukraine and replace them with a skeleton force next month to hold the fort until the COVID-19 pandemic has passe...
Mar 26, 2020
COVID-19 exposing thin financial margins of Canada's Olympic athletes
Any lingering hope Sarah Pavan had about competing on this season's professional beach volleyball circuit was crushed the day city workers came to cut down the nets on Hermosa Beac...
Mar 26, 2020
Crosby, Ovechkin fine if NHL goes directly into the playoffs post-COVID
Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin wouldn't mind the NHL going right into the playoffs if the league's able to resume the 2019-20 season in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking on s...
Mar 26, 2020
'A death sentence:' Advocates warn of COVID-19 spread in jails, prisons
Advocates across Canada are calling for the release of non-violent offenders and a unified plan to deal with the health and safety of inmates during the COVID-19 pandemic. "What we have is people...
Mar 26, 2020
Trump says feds developing new guidelines for virus risk
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that federal officials are developing guidelines to rate counties by risk of virus spread, as he aims to begin to ease nationwide guidelines meant to ...
Mar 26, 2020
