Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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A look at the Indigenous names for Edmonton's 12 wards
EDMONTON - The City of Edmonton approved a bylaw earlier this month to change the names of its 12 wards to Indigenous ones. Here are the new names and their meanings: Nakota Isga (Ward 1): (NAH'-koh-t...
Dec 25, 2020
COVID-19 has made its way to second B.C. mink farm, no workers sick
VICTORIA - Minks on a second farm in British Columbia's Fraser Valley have tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans. Three minks that died on the farm tested positive for the virus...
Dec 24, 2020
GOP blocks $2,000 checks as Trump leaves COVID aid in chaos
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's sudden demand for $2,000 checks for most Americans was swiftly rejected by House Republicans on Thursday as his haphazard actions throw a massive COVID relief and...
Dec 24, 2020
Pandemic pushed up timeline for long-sought EI review, Qualtrough says
OTTAWA - Canada's employment minister says plans to revamp the employment insurance system have been put on a faster path thanks to COVID-19. The pandemic has exposed shortcomings in EI, including tha...
Dec 24, 2020
Military bases struggling with personnel shortages, internal review finds
OTTAWA - An internal review by the Department of National Defence has revealed Canadian military bases across the country are struggling with several problems, starting with severe shortages of person...
Dec 24, 2020
Ontario, Quebec post case records; Trudeau strikes hopeful note in holiday message
Canada's two most populous provinces reported record daily COVID-19 caseloads Thursday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged this won't be the Christmas anyone had hoped for. Ontario reported ...
Dec 24, 2020
California COVID-19: 2 million confirmed cases and counting
LOS ANGELES - California became the first state to record 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases, reaching the milestone on Christmas Eve as nearly the entire state was under a strict stay-at-home orde...
Dec 24, 2020
Senior snowbirds congregate in B.C. when wings clipped by COVID-19 border closures
VANCOUVER - On a small island in British Columbia's Fraser River is a campsite packed with Canadian snowbirds who found refuge when the border with the United States was shut because of the COVID-19 p...
Dec 24, 2020
A look at the 29 people Trump pardoned or gave commutations
WASHINGTON - For a second night in a row, President Donald Trump issued a round of pardons and commutations in the final weeks of his presidency, giving full pardons to his former campaign chairman, h...
Dec 23, 2020
Trump plan to curb drug costs dealt setback in court
WASHINGTON - A late-term manoeuvr by President Donald Trump to use lower drug prices paid overseas to limit some of Medicare's own costs suffered a legal setback Wednesday that appears likely to keep ...
Dec 23, 2020
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