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Canada inches toward to 200,000 COVID-19 case mark, with most new cases in Quebec
Canada's COVID-19 caseload is nearing the 200,000 mark, with the majority of new infections in Quebec this weekend. Public health officials reported 1,803 new cases across the country today, for a tot...
Oct 18, 2020

N.S. calls on Ottawa to define a 'moderate livelihood,' as fishing dispute boils over
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is urging Ottawa to define what constitutes legal harvesting in a "moderate livelihood" fishery, after a dispute about Indigenous fishing treaty rights boi...
Oct 18, 2020

Maidstone RCMP report multiple thefts on rural properties
Maidstone RCMP is advising all residents to ensure their vehicles are locked and the keys are removed, following a series of property crimes near Lashburn and Marshall.Overnight between Friday and Sat...
Oct 18, 2020

Arrests made following gunfire, pursuit in North Battleford
Battlefords RCMP is investigating a firearms incident that took place Saturday morning in North Battleford.The incident occurred shortly before 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, where five or six rounds were rep...
Oct 18, 2020

Restaurants near virus hot spots weigh safety-vs-profit with locals-only dining
Some southern Ontario restaurants are making the tough financial choice to bar out-of-town customers from indoor dining as COVID-19 cases surge in nearby hot spots. Ramshackle Industries, which ...
Oct 18, 2020

B.C.'s snap election means 700k ballots will be counted manually, delaying results
VANCOUVER - British Columbia residents won't learn the results of next Saturday's snap election for at least two weeks after polls close thanks to the need to count hundreds of thousands of mail-in ba...
Oct 18, 2020

Zverev beats Canada's Auger-Aliassime in Cologne to end title wait
COLOGNE, Germany - Alexander Zverev ended his 17-month wait for a title by drawing on the pain of his U.S. Open final defeat to beat Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-3, 6-3 and win the Cologne Indoors...
Oct 18, 2020

UN arms embargoes on Iran expire despite US objections
TEHRAN, Iran - A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, de...
Oct 18, 2020

Restaurants near virus hot spots weigh safety-vs-profit with locals-only dining
Some southern Ontario restaurants are making the tough financial choice to bar out-of-town customers from indoor dining as COVID-19 cases surge in nearby hot spots. Ramshackle Industries, which ...
Oct 18, 2020

Afghans say preventing next war as vital as ending this one
KABUL - At a Kabul museum honouring Afghanistan's war victims, talking to visitors reveals just how many layers and generations of pain and grief have piled up during four decades of unrelenting confl...
Oct 18, 2020