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Inmate and two workers test positive for COVID-19 at Willow Cree Healing Lodge
An inmate diagnosed with COVID-19 is being medically isolated in a house-style residence within the Willow Cree Healing Lodge (WCHL).The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) said two people who work a...
Dec 31, 2020
Federal government approves NHL training camps, but provinces must make call on games
OTTAWA - The federal government says it has issued an exemption to the mandatory 14-day quarantine period for NHL players and team staff to return to Canada for training camp under "national interest ...
Dec 31, 2020
Security firms say suspicious object on oil tanker off Iraq
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Sailors involved in transferring fuel oil from an Iraqi tanker in the Persian Gulf to another vessel owned by a shipping company traded in the U.S. discovered a "suspicio...
Dec 31, 2020
Calamity? Anomaly? 2020 was a box office year like no other
When the sun sets on the 2020 film box office, it'll be difficult to look at the numbers as anything but disastrous. After five consecutive years of North American revenues exceeding $11 billion, this...
Dec 31, 2020
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of their names hold a prominent place...
Dec 31, 2020
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of their names hold a prominent place...
Dec 31, 2020
'After a week we thought gosh she's gonna make it': 106-year-old Prince Albert woman beats COVID-19
In her lifetime, Prince Albert's Rubena Wenzel has lived through world wars and now survived two pandemics, the Spanish flu in 1918 and COVID-19 in 2020.Roughly two and a half weeks after her initial ...
Dec 31, 2020
A 'very tough conversation' and a rockin' New Year’s Eve: In The News for Dec. 31
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 Dec. 31 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Dec 31, 2020
Horgan says B.C. will focus on pandemic economic recovery, health reform in 2021
VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan says economic recovery and health-care changes are the British Columbia government's top priorities for 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic tested people individually and t...
Dec 31, 2020
'You have to know it's time to go': N.S. premier reflects on tragic year, retirement
HALIFAX - When Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil privately decided earlier this year he would retire after 17 years in politics, he had no idea of the challenges he was about to face. Like all Canadi...
Dec 31, 2020