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More than 20 million jobs vanish in April
BALTIMORE - U.S. businesses cut an unprecedented 20.2 million jobs in April, an epic collapse as the coronavirus outbreak closed of offices, factories, schools, construction sites and stores that prop...
May 6, 2020

Pace Centre recognizing Sexual Violence Awareness Month through social media
May is Sexual Violence Awareness Month in Alberta.Buffy MacIntosh with the PACE Community Support, Sexual Assault, and Trauma Centre in Grande Prairie says the awareness month began in Alberta approxi...
May 6, 2020 Pace Centre / Facebook

Court update: Sentencing after shots fired incident, stay in stolen property case
Both the people charged after a 2018 incident where a confrontation led to shots being fired between suspects and Grande Prairie RCMP have now been sentenced.Alberta Justice says Raymond Andrew Rodtka...
May 6, 2020

BMO Field adds more cooking muscle to MLSE meals program during global pandemic
TORONTO - Having already turned Scotiabank Arena into a giant kitchen, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment is adding BMO Field to the cooking mix. With the help of sponsor BMO, the lakefront stadium...
May 6, 2020

EU forecasts 'recession of historic proportions' this year
BRUSSELS - The European Union predicted Wednesday "a recession of historic proportions this year" due to the impact of the coronavirus with a drop in output of more than 7%, as it released its first o...
May 6, 2020

MPs convene today and a special ramp ceremony; In The News for May 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 May 5 ... --- CO...
May 6, 2020

Canada invests another US$70M in F-35 development despite no commitment to buy
OTTAWA - The federal government has made another multimillion-dollar investment into the development of the F-35 stealth fighter jet despite no guarantee it will buy the aircraft. Canada made the annu...
May 6, 2020

'Some days I get very depressed:' seniors discuss isolation during the pandemic
Jackie Potter cannot stop thinking about her five dead children. The 60-year-old lives alone in Hamilton with nothing to do during the pandemic. So she thinks. St. Matthew's House, the seniors centre ...
May 6, 2020

Moment of silence planned at Cargill for worker who died of COVID-19
HIGH RIVER, Alta. - A moment of silence is planned at the Cargill meat packing plant near High River, Alta., Wednesday to honour an employee who died of COVID-19. Hiep Bui, who was 67, ...
May 6, 2020

COVID-19 pandemic hammers job market, but there are 'opportunities,' say analysts
VICTORIA - In the worst employment market in decades, job hunters need to prepare for what will inevitably be a video interview, say employers and job market experts who suggest there a...
May 6, 2020