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Canadian Natural beats expectations despite loss and halving of revenues
CALGARY - Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. beat analyst expectations despite swinging to a loss in its latest quarter on a halving of revenues.The Calgary-based energy producer says it lost $310 millio...
Aug 6, 2020
Weekly poems elevate New Hampshire city's virus newsletters
CONCORD, N.H. - Valerie Rochon is eager to read her email every Monday morning, even when it makes her cry. In addition to the endless Zoom meeting invitations, each week brings a new poem tucked into...
Aug 6, 2020
Provinces not moving fast enough to assess, mitigate flood risk: report
OTTAWA - A new report says provincial governments are not moving fast enough to protect homes and other buildings from the ravages of flooding. The report from the Intact Centre on Climate A...
Aug 6, 2020
Firefighter training on grain entrapment to include free public movie screening
Training on how to rescue someone trapped in grain is set for close to 30 firefighters in DeBolt this weekend.MD of Greenview Fire Chief Wayne Brown says a deputy fire chief who had been stationed in ...
Aug 6, 2020
City Hall says more money coming in than expected
City Hall has collected more tax revenue than it expected to have at this point.The deadline to pay city property taxes had already been extended from the end of June to the end of August because of t...
Aug 6, 2020
NHL and its labs say COVID-19 testing doesn't overlap with public's
EDMONTON - The NHL says the laboratories hired to conduct daily COVID-19 tests on players in Edmonton and Toronto keep their supply chains separate from the public's to ensure never the twai...
Aug 6, 2020
China sentences 3rd Canadian to death on drug charges
BEIJING - China has sentenced a third Canadian citizen to death on drug charges amid a steep decline in relations between the two countries. The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate Court announced Xu Wei...
Aug 6, 2020
Documents on WE affair and Kashmir clampdown: In The News for Aug. 6
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Aug. 6. What we are watching in Canada ... Opp...
Aug 6, 2020
'Do our lives count for less?': COVID-19 exposes cracks in disability aid
Karyn Keith says she isn't asking for much. All she wants is the same support she'd receive if she was out of a job because of the pandemic, rather than unable to work because...
Aug 6, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Aug. 6
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2020: There are 118,187 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 60,000 confirmed (including 5,687 deaths, 50,886 resolved)...
Aug 6, 2020