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China says faulty masks a 'contractual' matter that has been fixed
OTTAWA - The Chinese embassy in Ottawa claimed Monday that the one million faulty N95 masks that arrived in Canada from China last month were the result of a "contractual" issue that has now been...
May 4, 2020
Ontario calls for a national strategy on contact tracing of COVID-19 cases
TORONTO - Ontario's premier is calling for a national strategy on contact tracing. Doug Ford says he spoke with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday about the matter and planned to make t...
May 4, 2020
Kingfish Ingram wins 5 Blues Music Awards in online show
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Guitarist Christone "Kingfish" Ingram took home five Blues Music Awards in an online ceremony that featured appearances by Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray and other musicians. The awards sh...
May 4, 2020
Dr. Hinshaw calls out wave of discrimination against immigrants in Brooks & High River
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Alberta's Chief Medical Officer of Health says immigrant workers in Brooks and High River have experienced far more discrimination since their communities have faced significant COVID...
May 4, 2020 Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw. (Government of Alberta)
Nunavut's first COVID-19 case turns out to be false positive
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Canada's High Arctic may still be free of the novel coronavirus. A case of COVID-19 supposedly confirmed in the remote Nunavut community of Pond Inlet last week has turned out to be...
May 4, 2020
Star Wars Day promotion goes awry after LPS arrests employee in stormtrooper costume
LETHBRIDGE, AB - ***Video has been edited by owner to remove audio.May the fourth is widely known among fans of the sci-fi series as Star Wars Day, and thus, a local business themed around the franchi...
May 4, 2020 The employee dressed in the Star Wars stormtrooper costumer at Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina. (Supplied by Bradley Whalen)
Hall of Fame 'keeper Karina LeBlanc endures health scare after giving birth
Karina LeBlanc knew life would change when she became a mother. But the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame goalkeeper did not expect the terrifying roller-coaster that followed the birth of daughter Paris, wi...
May 4, 2020
Quebec police probing 3 cellphone tower fires, possible link to conspiracy theory
MONTREAL - Police in Quebec are investigating whether recent fires at three cellphone towers north of Montreal are connected and if they have anything to do with global conspiracy theories l...
May 4, 2020
Nicolas Cage to star as Joe Exotic in limited TV series
LOS ANGELES - The Joe Exotic phenomenon keeps growing, with Nicolas Cage to star in a TV miniseries about the colorful wild animal owner made famous by the "Tiger King" docuseries. The TV series is th...
May 4, 2020
Iran chief's link to 1988 massacre raises obstacles in crash probe: Cotler
OTTAWA - A former Canadian justice minister says Canada's quest for compensation from Iran for shooting down a Ukrainian airliner is fraught with obstacles because Tehran's lead investigator is a mass...
May 4, 2020