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Canadians need to cut contacts by a quarter to control COVID-19 outbreak: Tam
New federal projections suggest that Canadians need to cut a quarter of their contacts to keep the COVID-19 outbreak from resurging. The modelling indicates that at current rates of in-person socializ...
Oct 30, 2020
Hockey legend Bobby Orr endorses U.S. President Trump's re-election bid
Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr has endorsed the re-election bid of United States President Donald Trump. The Boston Bruins legend took out a full-page ad in Friday's New Hampshire Union Leader, where ...
Oct 30, 2020
Fallen construction magnate ordered to pay $2 million after pleading guilty to fraud
MONTREAL - One-time Quebec construction magnate Tony Accurso and several companies tied to him have been ordered to pay $4.2 million after pleading guilty to tax fraud.Quebec's Revenue Department said...
Oct 30, 2020
Vancouver Canucks sign depth defenceman Guillame Brisebois to one-year deal
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Canucks have added to their defensive depth, signing Guillaume Brisebois to a one-year, two-way contract. The 23-year-old from Longueuil, Que., spent last season with V...
Oct 30, 2020
No class of 2021 for Hockey Hall of Fame, will have ceremony for 2020 class instead
TORONTO - The Hockey Hall of Fame announced Friday there will be no new inductees in 2021, and the class of 2020 will be honoured in a ceremony that year instead. The 2020 inductees were scheduled to ...
Oct 30, 2020
Over 43,000 flu vaccines administered in AHS North Zone
Alberta Health Services has released the first weekly data for the 2020-21 influenza season.The report shows 597,110 influenza vaccines were administered across Alberta, 43,614 of which were given out...
Oct 30, 2020
Lobster dispute: RCMP release images of men near fish plant that was torched
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia RCMP released images today showing two men walking away from a fish plant on the same night it was burned to the ground amid an escalating dispute over an Indigenous lobster ...
Oct 30, 2020
Statistics Canada says economy grew 1.2 per cent in August as pace of growth slowed
OTTAWA - The pace of economic growth in Canada slowed in August as real gross domestic product grew 1.2 per cent in the month, Statistics Canada said Friday.The rise compared with a revised 3.1 per ce...
Oct 30, 2020
Five Things about Canada's foreign-policy end run around Donald Trump
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne was recently pondering Canada's place in the world from his home in Shawinigan, Que., "the command centre of foreign policy, these days," a...
Oct 30, 2020
Trudeau names former Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner as new consul general in Boston
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sending former Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner to represent Canada as the country's consul general in Boston.Cuzner was an MP for Cape Breton for nearly 20 years but...
Oct 30, 2020