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Pangos, Ennis among Canadian basketball players weathering COVID-19 abroad
Dylan Ennis posted a video on social media on Sunday of his young daughter Amiyah, toddling at full speed toward the camera, giggling with delight. In Spain, where Ennis lives with his ...
May 01, 2020
Sprinkling regulations in effect
KAMLOOPS - It's not related to the COVID outbreak, but here's a restriction you need to remember. Being the 1st of May, water restrictions are now in effect for the city. These annual restrictions run...
May 01, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Biden on sexual assault allegation: 'never, never happened'
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday categorically denied allegations from a former Senate staffer that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, saying "this never h...
May 01, 2020
Virus worries haunt workers demanding rights on May Day
ATHENS, Greece - No job at all, or a job without enough protections - millions of workers worldwide marked international labour day trapped between hunger and fear Friday, as more countries and states...
May 01, 2020
Wet'suwet'en pact with Ottawa and B.C. disputed by elected chiefs
SMITHERS, B.C. - Elected chiefs of a First Nation that's split over a natural gas pipeline through their territories say they will not sign a deal on rights and title, a day after the hereditary ...
May 01, 2020
Wet'suwet'en pact with Ottawa and B.C. disputed by elected chiefs
SMITHERS, B.C. - Elected chiefs of a First Nation that's split over a natural gas pipeline through their territories say they will not sign a deal on rights and title, a day after the hereditary ...
May 01, 2020
Canadian Press NewsAlert: Morneau names Tiff Macklem new Bank of Canada governor
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau is naming Tiff Macklem the new governor of the Bank of Canada. The dean of the business school at the University of Toronto is a former senior deputy governor of...
May 01, 2020
Work safety strike, virus lockdown protest set for May Day
LOS ANGELES - Essential workers will strike nationwide on May Day to demand safer conditions during the coronavirus outbreak, while other groups plan rallies against tight stay-at-home orders they say...
May 01, 2020
Bollywood mourns loss of two of its most versatile actors
GURUGRAM, India - Two of India's most beloved movie stars, Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor, died within a day of each other this week, and though they came from two very different worlds and two very dif...
May 01, 2020
Mexican protest singer Oscar Chávez dies of COVID-19 at 85
MEXICO CITY - One of Mexico's best-known protest singers, Oscar Chvez, died Thursday at age 85 after being infected with the coronavirus. Mexico's culture secretary confirmed the singer's death, and t...
May 01, 2020
