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Toronto Blue Jays send Anthony Kay, Sean Reid-Foley to triple-A
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have optioned left-hander Anthony Kay and right-hander Sean Reid-Foley to triple-A Buffalo. The moves come during an indefinite suspension of all professional baseball ...
Mar 20, 2020
USA Swimming urges USOPC to ask for delay of Tokyo Games
DENVER - The head of USA Swimming urged the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to push for a 12-month postponement of the Tokyo Games, signalling the first fissure between powerful American faction...
Mar 20, 2020
USA Swimming urges USOPC to ask for delay of Tokyo Games
DENVER - The head of USA Swimming urged the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to push for a 12-month postponement of the Tokyo Games, signalling the first fissure between powerful American faction...
Mar 20, 2020
Quebec to move all lottery ticket sales online to avoid spread of COVID-19
MONTREAL - Quebec's lottery corporation says it will soon sell lottery tickets only online amid fears of the novel coronavirus. A spokesman for Loto-Quebec said on Twitter today that it...
Mar 20, 2020
Provincial COVID-19 update: March 20
Premier Jason Kenney will provide an update on COVID-19 in Alberta during a news conference scheduled to start at 3 p.m.Immediately following, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer of hea...
Mar 20, 2020
Call for COVID-19 protective equipment spurs college, distiller, TV show to help
VICTORIA - The novel coronavirus shut down the respiratory therapy program at Fanshawe College but that didn't stop the school from supplying much needed frontline equipment to fight COVID-19. Pr...
Mar 20, 2020
Major League Soccer extends training moratorium due to COVID-19 outbreak
TORONTO - Major League Soccer has extended its moratorium on team training through March 27. The news comes one day after the league announced that, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, it was extending its ...
Mar 20, 2020
Latitude 55 to aid in development of hand sanitizer during pandemic
Another local distillery is partnering with the Grande Prairie Regional Emergency Partnership (GPREP) to start making and distributing hand sanitizer.Latitude 55 Distillery, along with Broken Oak Dist...
Mar 20, 2020
Illinois governor orders residents to stay at home
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday ordered all state residents to remain in their homes except for essentials, joining similar dramatic efforts in California and New York to lim...
Mar 20, 2020
The latest numbers of COVID-19 cases in Canada as of March 20, 2020
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 3 p.m. on March 20, 2020: There are 943 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Ontario: 308 confirmed (including 2 ...
Mar 20, 2020