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Senators head coach D.J. Smith on California road trip: 'The fear hadn't set in'
D.J. Smith noticed something when his Ottawa Senators arrived in northern California last month. There weren't many people around. "At that point, no one knew what we know now," the team's r...
Apr 08, 2020

More COVID-19 aid, PPE needed for First Nations and Metis, leaders say
OTTAWA - First Nations and Metis leaders say they need more from Ottawa to combat COVID-19 in their communities, including money, assistance with security and help acquiring protec...
Apr 08, 2020

N.W.T. creates enforcement squad for public health orders around COVID-19
YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories is creating a squad of public health officers to enforce orders around the COVID-19 epidemic. N.W.T.'s chief medical officer of health Dr. Kami Kandol...
Apr 08, 2020

Four new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in South Health Zone
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Government of Alberta has released its latest set of numbers for COVID-19 in the province.An additional 50 cases were confirmed Wednesday, bringing the total up to 1,423.Three mor...
Apr 08, 2020 Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw. (Government of Alberta)

Province releases projections for COVID-19 trends in Alberta
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Government of Alberta has released comparisons for COVID-19 to other jurisdictions and where the province may be headed in the future.Compared to the country as a whole, and espec...
Apr 08, 2020 The three projected models of COVID-19 over the next several months. (Government of Alberta)

Canada won't tip hand on possibility of import tariffs on Saudi oil
OTTAWA - Canada's energy minister will speak to his U.S. and Mexican counterparts Thursday in a bid to generate a common front ahead of talks by the world's biggest economies aimed at ending the ...
Apr 08, 2020

Politicians ask public to work from home, but are they taking their own advice?
Canada's politicians have been urging the public to work from home during the COVID-19 crisis, but a look at federal and provincial leaders suggests not all of them are following their own a...
Apr 08, 2020

Calgary woman who died of COVID-19 was expecting 2020 to be best year: husband
CALGARY - A Calgary man whose wife died of COVID-19 last month says the two of them were expecting 2020 to be the best year of their lives. But things changed quickly in mid-March when Deb Diemer...
Apr 08, 2020

Alberta government introduces bill to protect human trafficking survivors
EDMONTON, AB. -- The Alberta government introduced a new bill Tuesday aimed at empowering survivors of human trafficking.If passed, the government says Bill 8, the Protecting Survivors of Human Traffi...
Apr 08, 2020 Doug Schweitzer, Minister of Justice and Solicitor General

Landowners and legal experts criticize Alberta’s well cleanup bill
EDMONTON, AB. - Landowners and legal experts are criticizing Alberta's hastily passed new legislation intended to help clean up the province's huge stockpile of abandoned energy facilities. The bill, ...
Apr 08, 2020 Pump Jack on farmland - The Canadian Press