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La Scala announces fall season as cultural life resumes
MILAN - The famed La Scala opera house on Monday announced a fall program of concerts and ballets aimed as a signal of confidence that European cultural life can resume in full following the coronavir...
Jul 27, 2020
Halifax rally hopes to increase pressure for public inquiry into April massacre
HALIFAX - People are gathering at a Halifax park today to demand a public inquiry into the Nova Scotia mass shootings. The gathering at Victoria Park comes less than...
Jul 27, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Monday, July 27
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. on July 27, 2020: There are 113,913 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 58,583 confirmed (including 5,667 deaths, 50,812 resol...
Jul 27, 2020
Demanding a massacre inquiry and teddy come back:In The News for July 27
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 July 27. What we are watching in Canada ... HA...
Jul 27, 2020
CP NewsAlert: Toronto Blue Jays set to make Buffalo their home in 2020: AP source
The Toronto Blue Jays will play home games at their triple-A affiliate's stadium in Buffalo, N.Y. this season, a source tells the Associated Press. Canada's lone Major League Baseball team was fo...
Jul 27, 2020
Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress, dies at 104
PARIS - Olivia de Havilland, the doe-eyed actress beloved to millions as the sainted Melanie Wilkes of "Gone With the Wind," but also a two-time Oscar winner and an off-screen fighter who challenged a...
Jul 27, 2020
Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods jump 7.3% in June
WASHINGTON - Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods rose a solid 7.3% in June, the second big monthly gain as manufacturing tries to climb out of a spring slump triggered by the coronavirus pandemic...
Jul 27, 2020
Lawyer claims Depp was misogynistic abuser of ex-wife Heard
LONDON - A lawyer for British tabloid The Sun claimed Monday that Johnny Depp abused Amber Heard during their relationship, committing acts of violence fueled by misogyny and unleashed by addiction to...
Jul 27, 2020
First three pieces of election reform package passes in Alberta
The United Conservative Party is rolling out a multi-piece democratic election reform package. The first pieces of legislation were passed and received royal assent on Thursday, July 23.The first piec...
Jul 27, 2020
10-year jail sentence after Central Peace shots fired incident
Alberta Justice says an October 2018 incident in the Spirit River that involved gunfire and stolen vehicles has led to a 10-year prison sentence for the man charged.Ian Preston Letendre, who had no fi...
Jul 27, 2020