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Trudeau promises $9B aid package for students amid COVID-19
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising a new emergency benefit for students whose education and job prospects are disrupted by COVID-19. He says a $1,250 monthly payment is coming for pos...
Apr 22, 2020
Many wary of virus reopenings as partisan divide grows in U.S.
BERLIN (AP) - One of the grimmest symbols of the coronavirus outbreak - a morgue set up in a Madrid skating rink - closed Wednesday as stores and other businesses reopened in places across Europe, whi...
Apr 22, 2020 A man with a facemask walks over the Friedrichstrasse, a main shopping street, in Berlin, Germany on April 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
What does ‘reaching the peak’ in the COVID-19 pandemic mean?
The latest round of government projections related to the COVID-19 pandemic includes an increasingly common phrase - reaching the peak. But what exactly does that mean? Some experts weigh in: What doe...
Apr 22, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
What to expect when you're expecting in a pandemic
There isn't a guideline on what to expect when you're expecting during a pandemic, and for parents who are welcoming new babies right now, pregnancy and childbirth is not what they imagined when they ...
Apr 22, 2020 Shawna Enns with baby Rosie Harriet Enns. (Shawna Enns/Submitted)
Canadian petroleum producers forecasting major cuts to oil production and drilling
Oil prices took an unprecedented hit this week, dropping into negative values due to oversupply and a massive drop in global demand, according to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP)...
Apr 21, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Food workers' union calls for consistency in measures, and a little courtesy
For most, the phrase "frontline worker" brings to mind a doctor or a nurse, but in these times, grocery store workers are right up there as well. And the union that represents more than 5,000 of those...
Apr 21, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Saskatchewan records 14 more recoveries, four new COVID-19 cases
With only four new cases of COVID-19 reported by the provincial government and 14 more recoveries, the number of active cases in Saskatchewan continues to decline. However, that doesn't mean the Saska...
Apr 21, 2020 (File photo by Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
Two planes from China forced to arrive in Canada empty of supplies: PM
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says two planes from China were forced to return empty to Canada on Monday, without the protective medical equipment that they were sent there to pick up. One of...
Apr 21, 2020 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons on April 20, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Tragedy of mass shooting ‘hits home’ for Nova Scotian athletes
One of the best Nova Scotian athletes in history needs just a single word to describe the current situation in her province - "surreal." Six-time national women's curling champion Colleen Jones, now a...
Apr 21, 2020
New Zealand could pull off bold goal of eliminating virus
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - While most countries are working on ways to contain the coronavirus, New Zealand has set itself a much more ambitious goal: Eliminating it altogether. And experts believe the...
Apr 21, 2020
OPINION
Sarah Mills: World Cup dreams are made
The score may not have been ideal, but Sarah Mills says the World Cup experience was everything she hoped it would be.
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8:30 - Another school year has wrapped up, and report cards are out! Everett Hindley, Saskatchewan's Minister of Educati...