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Venezuela says it foiled attack by boat on main port city
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan officials said they foiled an early morning attempt by a group of armed men to invade the country by boat on Sunday, killing eight attackers and arresting two more. Soc...
May 03, 2020
Target Hunger campaign a go, despite COVID-19 pandemic
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Registration for the annual Target Hunger initiative is now open. Organizers say despite the on-going novel coronavirus pandemic, the Lethbridge-wide event will still take place, as i...
May 03, 2020 Volunteers from the 2019 Target Hunger campaign (Photo courtesy Danielle McIntyre, Interfaith Food Bank)
Biden wins Kansas primary conducted with all-mail balloting
TOPEKA, Kan. - Joe Biden has overwhelmingly won a Democratic presidential primary in Kansas that the state party conducted exclusively by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic. The former vice-pres...
May 03, 2020
Alberta parks partnership rules to be released, critics call for consultation
EDMONTON - Albertans are expected to learn Monday how they can take up to 164 provincial parks and recreation sites off the hands of a government that no longer wants them. The decision, announced in ...
May 03, 2020
Security guards in high demand, face more stress on job during COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an enormous demand for security guards, whose job descriptions have been expanded to include temperature checks, grocery store crowd control and - in at least one cas...
May 03, 2020
'The work is still getting done': NHL teams preparing for unusual draft
Vancouver Canucks general manager Jim Benning and his NHL counterparts usually have the luxury of a picture that's mostly come into focus. A normal draft year will see scouts and execut...
May 03, 2020
Chiefs concerned about mental health impacts of COVID-19 in their First Nations
OTTAWA - A few months before the novel coronavirus arrived in Canada, the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation at Loon Lake, Sask. was already raising the alarm over suicides in the community...
May 03, 2020
Civil service saw COVID-19 benefit programs as 'Dunkirk'-style rescue effort
OTTAWA - It was a sunny March 18 when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presented the government's first big attempt at containing the economic fallout from COVID-19 in the form of an $82-billio...
May 03, 2020
Looser COVID-19 rules mean more activity, but there may be some confusion
WINNIPEG - People in some provinces will enjoy more freedom Monday as restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic are loosened. But the change appears set to leave some workers looking for child car...
May 03, 2020
S Korea says troops exchange fire along N Korean border
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea says its troops have exchanged fire with North Korea along their tense land border. The Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul says North Korean troops fired several bu...
May 02, 2020