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Trudeau seeking U.S. decision on troops at border; calls possibility a mistake
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it would be a mistake for the United States to position troops near the Canadian border. Trudeau says today he's told that to the T...
Mar 27, 2020
Grande Prairie's Lambert reflects on his first season in the WHL
The 2019-2020 hockey season was one to remember for Grande Prairie's Edge Lambert.The 17-year-old (at the time the season began) was set to become a member of the Grande Prairie Storm for this past se...
Mar 27, 2020 Photo Credit: Judy Simpson
Rural doctors and mayors ask city-dwellers to stay home and not tax system
Rural health-care providers and small-town politicians are pleading with snowbirds and city-dwellers to stay at their primary homes during the COVID-19 pandemic rather than self-isolating in more remo...
Mar 27, 2020
Health care employers and unions announce joint agreement on PPE protocols and measures
Alberta Health Services (AHS), the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE), Covenant Health, Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA) and the United Nurses of Alberta (UNA) have released sta...
Mar 27, 2020
Trump accuses GM of overpromising on breathing machines
DETROIT - President Donald Trump attacked General Motors Friday, alleging that the company promised to build thousands more breathing machines than it can deliver for coronavirus patients and that it ...
Mar 27, 2020
COVID-19 closures: It's as if Ottawa has fallen off the electricity grid
TORONTO - It's as if the COVID-19 epidemic had tripped a circuit breaker, shutting off all power to a city the size of Ottawa. Virus-induced restrictions that have shut down large swaths of normal com...
Mar 27, 2020
Commissioner Randy Ambrosie says CFL draft still on for April 30
TORONTO - CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie says the league's draft remains on schedule - at least for now. Ambrosie addressed the status of the April 30 draft during a question-and-...
Mar 27, 2020
Toronto FC players busy behind closed doors thanks to some quick thinking
TORONTO - It's been 20-plus years since Jim Liston used to train Greg Vanney and Dan Calichman in a small space in Pasadena, Calif. "We had very little space," Liston recalled. "About 2,000 squar...
Mar 27, 2020
Feds to cover 75 per cent of wages for qualifying small- and medium-sized businesses
The federal government has boosted the wage subsidy it announced last week that would fund 10 per cent of wages for small- and medium-sized businesses that qualify.The wage subsidy has been increased ...
Mar 27, 2020 File Photo
Financial aid requests won't be hindered by Service Canada closures: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Service Canada employees can and should be working from home, despite the growing demand generated by financial aid applications. The federal government ann...
Mar 27, 2020