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New pandemic aid and health-care workers at risk: In The News for Oct. 5
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 Oct. 5. What we are watching in Canada ... The...
Oct 05, 2020
Court update: Warrants for two forgery suspects, jail time after drugs and weapons seizure in Grande Prairie
Warrants are out for two of the four people charged in connection with a forgery and counterfeiting arrest last year in Fairview.A warrant was issued September 23 for Kristi Patricia Summers of Grande...
Oct 05, 2020
Seven Grande Prairie traffic lights getting replaced, repaired starting Monday
Seven traffic signals in Grande Prairie will be getting repaired or replaced beginning Monday, October 5.The City says in a release that three of the traffic signals will be getting fully replaced, wh...
Oct 05, 2020
Plan to support impacted businesses in next phase of downtown revitalization being drawn up
A plan to help support businesses that would be impacted during Phase Four of the Downtown Revitalization Project next summer has been requested by members of Grande Prairie City Council.A motion for ...
Oct 05, 2020
Microsoft plans $1 billion data centre venture in Greece
ATHENS, Greece - Microsoft has announced plans to build three data centres in greater Athens, providing a badly needed investment of up to $1 billion to the Greek economy which has been hammered by th...
Oct 05, 2020
14 days of solitude: The lonely success of the 'Atlantic bubble'
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Laurie Leek has spent four of the past eight weeks alone in her home in St. John's. She was alone for her birthday. She was alone in the weeks immediately following her mother...
Oct 05, 2020
EU top official self-isolating after contact with virus case
BRUSSELS - European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen says she has placed herself in isolation after being in contact with a person infected with the coronavirus. In a message posted on Twitte...
Oct 05, 2020
New institute to shine spotlight on Canada's little known history of slavery
MONTREAL - Charmaine Nelson wagers that if you asked people in cities across Canada what they know about the history of slavery in this country, most would be surprised to hear that the practice even ...
Oct 05, 2020
Teachers learn that online classes for foreign students come with geopolitical snags
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - In the midst of the summer scramble to get courses online at Memorial University in St. John's, Sonja Knutson realized there were political implications to remote learning she hadn'...
Oct 05, 2020
Week of Nobel Prize announcement begins with medicine award
STOCKHOLM - The 2020 Nobel Prizes kick off Monday with the naming of the winner, or winners, in the field of physiology and medicine. A panel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm will announce the...
Oct 05, 2020