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Kodiaks announce first two commitments for 2020-2021 women’s volleyball season
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge College women's volleyball team has announced two new signees.Eryka Woods has committed to the Kodiaks team. The Lethbridge product last played with the Panther Volleyb...
Apr 30, 2020 Eryka Woods & Reia Taylor have committed to the Kodiaks women's volleyball team (Photos courtesy of Lethbridge College - Kodiaks Athletics)
One dead, five missing after helicopter crash off Greece, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says six people were aboard the Canadian Forces helicopter that crashed off Greece during a training exercise.One body has been recovered and five remain missing...
Apr 30, 2020 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
U of L-community committee to explore viability of Pronghorns hockey
LETHBRIDGE, AB - A new committee has been established that would look into the possibility of bringing the University of Lethbridge's hockey programs back.The university announced on April 20 that it ...
Apr 30, 2020 Pronghorns Hockey ice rink. (Lethbridge News Now)
Ottawa mayor orders end to ban on window visits in city nursing homes
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says he's ordered the people who run the city's nursing homes to find a way to let family members visit residents through windows again. The four municipal homes' administrator...
Apr 30, 2020
Budget officer says federal deficit could top $252 billion
OTTAWA - Parliament's budget watchdog says that it's likely the federal deficit for the year will hit $252.1 billion as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.The figure is an estimate based on the almost ...
Apr 30, 2020 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (The Canadian Press)
Nunavut confirms first case of COVID-19 in Pond Inlet
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut says it has its first case of COVID-19. The territory's chief public health officer, Dr. Michael Patterson, says the case was detected in the community of Pond Inlet. "We di...
Apr 30, 2020
US intel: Coronavirus not manmade, still studying lab theory
WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the new coronavirus was "not manmade or genetically modified" but say they are still examining whether the origins of the pandemic trace to ...
Apr 30, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 10:45 a.m. Ontario is reporting 459 new COVID-19 cases today, and 86 more deaths - the largest daily death toll ...
Apr 30, 2020
Outsiders consider possibility of chaos in North Korea
TOKYO - North Korea's collapse has been predicted - wrongly- for decades. Some said it would happen after fighting ended in the Korean War in 1953. Others thought it would be during a 1990s famine or ...
Apr 30, 2020
About 50 bodies found in trucks outside NY funeral home
NEW YORK - Police were called to a Brooklyn neighbourhood Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby com...
Apr 30, 2020