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AP Source: Chance MLB won't play increases in money fight
NEW YORK - Major League Baseball might not play at all this year after a breakdown in talks between teams and the players' association on how to split up money in a season delayed by the coronavirus p...
Jun 15, 2020
AP Exclusive: DOJ sets new dates to begin federal executions
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has set new dates to begin executing federal death-row inmates following a months-long legal battle over the plan to resume the executions for the first time since ...
Jun 15, 2020
Funding cancelled for Six Mile Coulee pathway project, city will consult further on future use
LETHBRIDGE, AB - "If it's not broken, don't fix it."Those were the words of Lethbridge City Councillor Blaine Hyggen after Monday's unanimous vote to rescind the approval for the Pathway 24 (Six Mile ...
Jun 15, 2020
Alberta's State of Public Health Emergency ending, but COVID-19 restrictions still in place
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Government of Alberta is putting an end to the State of Public Health Emergency over COVID-19, which was enacted March 15."We faced an enormous test and our province passed with f...
Jun 15, 2020
'It's frustrating': Trump advertising blast has limits
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's campaign manager warned in late spring that his juggernaut political operation - the "Death Star," he called it - was about to start "pressing FIRE" for the first...
Jun 15, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:22 p.m. on June 15, 2020: There are 99,091 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 54,054 confirmed (inclu...
Jun 15, 2020
Judge concerned over time it's taking to hear Meng Wanzhou's extradition case
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court judge in Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's extradition case says she's concerned by the length of the proceedings. During a case management conference on Mon...
Jun 15, 2020
A look at some highlights of the Saskatchewan budget
REGINA - Premier Scott Moe's Saskatchewan Party government presented its 2020-21 budget built around the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some of the highlights: - A $2.4-billion deficit with...
Jun 15, 2020
Wayne Embry says if given the choice to play amid racial unrest, he would
TORONTO - Wayne Embry remembers the shock and sorrow that swept through the Boston Celtics when Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated hours before Game 1 of the 1968 Eastern Division fina...
Jun 15, 2020
Mexico hits pause on sending temporary foreign workers after COVID-19 deaths
OTTAWA, Ont. - The government of Mexico won't send any more temporary foreign workers to Canada until it has more clarity on why two died due to COVID-19.The Mexican ambassador to Canada says his gove...
Jun 15, 2020