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RCMP eases mask policy for bearded members, allows return to front line in some cases
OTTAWA - The RCMP has eased restrictions that sidelined bearded officers, including some Sikh and Muslim members, from front-line policing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Difficulties with properly fitt...
Oct 01, 2020
Active COVID-19 cases hold firm in Grande Prairie area
Alberta added 173 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, as there was one new case added in the County of Grande Prairie for September 30.The new case in the County was joined with one new recovery, keep...
Oct 01, 2020
Canadian linebacker Ogbongbemiga off to solid start with Oklahoma State Cowboys squad
The other Canadian starter on Oklahoma State University's football squad is off to solid start. Chuba Hubbard, a running back from Sherwood Park, Alta., garnered plenty of headlines at OSU last year a...
Oct 01, 2020
Hong Kong police arrest 60 for protesting on China holiday
Hong Kong police arrested at least 60 people on suspicion of unauthorized assembly on China's National Day holiday Thursday after crowds gathered on the streets of a popular shopping district chanting...
Oct 01, 2020
25 years after UN women's meeting, equality remains distant
TANZANIA, Tanzania - Twenty-five years ago, the world's nations came together to make sure that half of Earth's population gained the rights, power and status of the other half. It hasn't happened, an...
Oct 01, 2020
EU leaders seek end to embarrassing Belarus sanctions clash
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders sought Thursday to end an embarrassing standoff that prevents them from imposing sanctions on senior officials in Belarus who stand accused of falsifying presidential...
Oct 01, 2020
Armenia says it shot down Azerbaijani drone near capital
YEREVAN, Armenia - Armenia's military said its rockets shot down an Azerbaijani drone near the capital on Thursday night, as heavy fighting persisted in the conflict over the separatist region of Nago...
Oct 01, 2020
Pandemic takes toll on business of pisco producers in Peru
ICA, Peru - In the house where for decades she has bottled pisco, the grape brandy of South America's Pacific coast, Rosa Grados has thousands of stored litres that she has not sold because of the cor...
Oct 01, 2020
WikiLeaks' Assange won't get US extradition ruling this year
LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will likely spend the rest of 2020 inside a British prison cell before finding out whether he can be sent to the United States to face espionage charges, the ...
Oct 01, 2020
Second World War female aeronautical engineer Elsie MacGill gets Heritage Minute
Pioneering female aeronautical engineer Elsie MacGill is the focus of a new Heritage Minute.Historica Canada released a tribute to MacGill's influential role in the Second World War on Thursday to mar...
Oct 01, 2020