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Recoveries in Alberta top 60 per cent as province reports 54 new COVID-19 cases
Alberta added 54 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, while the North Zone saw a decrease of three cases to its total for May 7. Cases in the North went from 229 on Wednesday to 226 for Thursday. The de...
May 07, 2020
4-H clubs taking sale online
The Kleskun and Bezanson 4-H Multi Clubs will be holding their steer and lamb sale online this year.These sales are usually held in person as part of 4-H Achievement Days, but those are not going ahea...
May 07, 2020 Photo from the 4-H 2020 Facebook page.
Leafs forward Alexander Kerfoot looks back at up-and-down start in Toronto
TORONTO - Alexander Kerfoot has been waiting out the COVID-19 pandemic like most NHL players. There's been board games with family, backyard competition, workouts, Netflix, some reading and plent...
May 07, 2020
Texas salon owner jailed for defying governor's order freed
DALLAS - A Texas salon owner who was jailed for defying Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's public health orders walked out free to cheering supporters on Thursday, shortly after the governor weakened his m...
May 07, 2020
GPRC President and CEO to chair new economic recovery taskforce launched by Alberta colleges
The President and CEO of Grande Prairie Regional College, Dr. Robert Murray, is to chair a new Economic Recovery Taskforce launched by the eleven Comprehensive Community Colleges in the province.The t...
May 07, 2020 Photo: Liam Verster
Presidential politics, sidelined by pandemic, poised for Trump-fuelled comeback
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's re-election efforts appear to be showing new signs of life despite lingering concerns about whether the accelerated reopening in parts of the United States could prompt a s...
May 07, 2020
'Let's Make a Deal' asks frontline staff to join its special
NEW YORK - Wayne Brady and the folks at "Let's Make a Deal" want to honour those fighting the coronavirus - and they don't have to wear their capes if they don't want to. The CBS daytime game show tha...
May 07, 2020
Butler's prescient sci-fi resonates years after her death
NEW YORK - Novelist N.K. Jemisin was a teenager the first time she read Octavia Butler, and nothing had prepared her for it. It was the 1980s, and the book was called "Dawn," the story of a black woma...
May 07, 2020
US consumer borrowing fell for first time since 2011
WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer borrowing fell in March for the first time in more than eight years, with the category covering credit cards dropping by the largest amount in over three decades, the Federa...
May 07, 2020
La Scala opens virtual tour during coronavirus lockdown
Milan's famed La Scala opera house on Thursday unveiled a virtual journey through its ornate premises and rich archives via Google Arts & Culture, with serendipitous timing as theatres throughout ...
May 07, 2020