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Nova Scotia RCMP say man faces assault charges in violent clash at lobster pound
NEW EDINBURGH, N.S. - A 74-year-old Nova Scotia man has been charged in relation to a violent clash last month at a lobster pound in the southwestern part of the province, police announced on Saturday...
Nov 14, 2020
Romania: 10 die in fire at COVID-19 intensive care unit
BUCHAREST, Romania - Romanian officials say a fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients has killed 10 people and critically injured seven others. The blaze spread through the intensive care ward d...
Nov 14, 2020
AHS launches new COVID tool to support close contact notification
Alberta Health Services (AHS) has launched a new online portal to enable automated notification of close contacts of COVID-19 cases by text message.Albertans who receive a positive COVID test are bein...
Nov 14, 2020
Calgary asks province for enforcement powers amid ‘unbelievably bad’ COVID situation
CALGARY, AB - Calgary's emergency chief is asking the Alberta government to allow city police and peace officers to enforce public health orders as COVID-19 cases climb.Chief Tom Sampson says he's ask...
Nov 14, 2020
RCMP looking for man last seen in Grande Prairie
UPDATE: Jeffery Klimack has been located, and is safe and unharmed. Grande Prairie RCMP is asking for the public's assistance in locating 35 year-old Jeffery Klimack.Klimack, who was last seen in Gran...
Nov 14, 2020
Bjorklund spectacular as Storm take season opener
It may not have been the prettiest of efforts, but at the end of the night it was two points in the win column for the Grande Prairie Storm. Despite heavily outplaying the Storm at times, the Bonnyvil...
Nov 14, 2020
As setbacks beset Trump's efforts to contest election, supporters gather in D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Throngs of Die-hard Donald Trump supporters packed the streets of the United states capital today in solidarity with the president's efforts to defy last week's election results.Ten...
Nov 14, 2020
Canadian Vasek Pospisil loses to young Italian in final of ATP Tour's Sofia Open
SOFIA, Bulgaria - Vancouver's Vasek Pospisil has fallen one win short of capturing his first career ATP Tour title. The 30-year-old Pospisil lost 6-4, 3-6, 7-6, to 19-year-old Italian Jannik Sinner in...
Nov 14, 2020
Austria shuts schools, most stores, to curb spread of virus
BERLIN - Austria announced Saturday that it is tightening its partial lockdown, including by closing non-essential stores and shifting schools to online teaching, amid galloping coronavirus infection ...
Nov 14, 2020
India celebrates Diwali amid pandemic, pollution fears
NEW DELHI - More than a billion Indians celebrated Diwali on Saturday amid twin concerns of a resurgence in coronavirus infections and rising air pollution that is enveloping the country's north in a ...
Nov 14, 2020