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AHS asks public not to donate food to hospitals during COVID-19 pandemic
GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB - Alberta Health Services (AHS) is asking the public to not donate any food to their staff, volunteers or hospital patients as they try to contain the spread of COVID-19.In a statem...
Mar 26, 2020 Credit: Alberta Health Services
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
NHL postpones draft, awards, scouting combine over COVID-19 "uncertainty"
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The National Hockey League (NHL) is putting off three of its upcoming events.The 2020 NHL Scouting Combine was originally scheduled for June 1-6, the 2020 Bridgestone NHL Awards would...
Mar 26, 2020 NHL logo.
Group calls for release of non-violent inmates to reduce COVID-19 spread in prisons
Advocates are calling for the release of non-violent inmates and a unified plan to deal with the health and safety of prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic.Dozens of organizations have sent letters t...
Mar 26, 2020 Lethbridge Correctional Centre. (Lethbridge News Now)
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
Science needed to combat disinformation in COVID fight: Champagne
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says Canada and its G7 counterparts are concerned about the spread of disinformation in the COVID-19 fight. He says Canada and i...
Mar 26, 2020