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Alberta health minister defends province’s COVID-tracing app despite few contacts
EDMONTON - Alberta's health minister is defending Alberta's COVID-19 tracing app -- despite revelations it has tracked just 19 cases since the spring.Tyler Shandro says he will use any resource at his...
Nov 18, 2020
Security, health experts to lead review of pandemic warning system
OTTAWA - Health Minister Patty Hajdu is tapping a former national security adviser to lead a probe into whether Canada's pandemic warning system fell down just before COVID-19 reared up. Margaret Bloo...
Nov 18, 2020
US charges against former Mexican general are dropped
NEW YORK - A U.S. judge on Wednesday granted the Department of Justice's request to drop the drug trafficking and money laundering case against former Mexican Defence Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos and...
Nov 18, 2020
Ottawa Redblacks GM Marcel Desjardins, coach Rick Campbell returning in 2021
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Redblacks will bring back general manager Marcel Desjardins, head coach Paul LaPolice and the entire football operations staff in 2021. Desjardins, Ottawa's GM since the team's inc...
Nov 18, 2020
Bloc to file bill on French language proficiency for new citizens
OTTAWA - The Bloc Qubcois plans to introduce a bill Thursday that would require anyone applying for Canadian citizenship in Quebec to demonstrate functional proficiency in French. Bloc Leader Yves-Fra...
Nov 18, 2020
Dolly Parton adds pandemic hero to list of accomplishments
BOSTON - Dolly Parton is being celebrated in song - a rewritten version of her own "Jolene" - for her contribution to an experimental coronavirus vaccine. Northeastern University associate English pro...
Nov 18, 2020
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Nov. 18, 2020
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):11:15 a.m.Quebec is reporting 1,179 new cases of COVID-19 and 35 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, including eight...
Nov 18, 2020
Nashville SC's Walker Zimmerman named MLS Defender of the Year
NEW YORK - Nashville SC centre back Walker Zimmerman has been named the 2020 MLS Defender of the Year. Zimmerman was runner-up to Minnesota's Ike Opara last year. The 27-year-old U.S. international re...
Nov 18, 2020
"I know he's there" - Bishop-Nriagu says her future success will be due to Fairall
Melissa Bishop-Nriagu kept every training program coach Dennis Fairall had written for her over the decade the two had worked together. And so, when Bishop-Nriagu returned to the track after becoming ...
Nov 18, 2020
Ottawa to keep Boeing Max aircraft grounded for now, despite US decision
OTTAWA - Canada will not immediately follow the U.S. in allowing the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to return to Canadian airspace.Minister of Transport Marc Garneau said in a statement Wednesday that Canada...
Nov 18, 2020