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Canada inches toward to 200,000 COVID-19 case mark, with most new cases in Quebec
Canada's COVID-19 caseload is nearing the 200,000 mark, with the majority of new infections in Quebec this weekend. Public health officials reported 1,803 new cases across the country today, for a tot...
Oct 18, 2020
Mid-October snowfall in Kamloops not expected to stick around
KAMLOOPS - Many residents awoke to a dusting of snow through the hills of Kamloops this morning (Oct. 18), but the fall time flakes are not expected to last much longer. Environment Canada Meteorologi...
Oct 18, 2020
Surrey RCMP respond to drug overdose involving five people
SURREY, B.C. - The RCMP say naloxone was used to help five people who overdosed after using drugs together in the early hours of Saturday morning. They say officers initially responded to a report of ...
Oct 18, 2020
N.S. calls on Ottawa to define a 'moderate livelihood,' as fishing dispute boils over
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is urging Ottawa to define what constitutes legal harvesting in a "moderate livelihood" fishery, after a dispute about Indigenous fishing treaty rights boi...
Oct 18, 2020
Restaurants near virus hot spots weigh safety-vs-profit with locals-only dining
Some southern Ontario restaurants are making the tough financial choice to bar out-of-town customers from indoor dining as COVID-19 cases surge in nearby hot spots. Ramshackle Industries, which ...
Oct 18, 2020
Zverev beats Canada's Auger-Aliassime in Cologne to end title wait
COLOGNE, Germany - Alexander Zverev ended his 17-month wait for a title by drawing on the pain of his U.S. Open final defeat to beat Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-3, 6-3 and win the Cologne Indoors...
Oct 18, 2020
UN arms embargoes on Iran expire despite US objections
TEHRAN, Iran - A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, de...
Oct 18, 2020
Restaurants near virus hot spots weigh safety-vs-profit with locals-only dining
Some southern Ontario restaurants are making the tough financial choice to bar out-of-town customers from indoor dining as COVID-19 cases surge in nearby hot spots. Ramshackle Industries, which ...
Oct 18, 2020
Afghans say preventing next war as vital as ending this one
KABUL - At a Kabul museum honouring Afghanistan's war victims, talking to visitors reveals just how many layers and generations of pain and grief have piled up during four decades of unrelenting confl...
Oct 18, 2020
Car bombing in western Afghanistan kills 13, wounds 120
KABUL - A suicide car bombing on Sunday killed at least 13 people and wounded around 120 others in Afghanistan's western Ghor province, officials said. The head of a hospital in Ghor, Mohammad Omer La...
Oct 18, 2020
