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Pandemic poses preparation challenges for Canada's Tokyo-bound teams
Getting a bunch of people together from across Canada to play sports against a bunch of people from another country is logistically complex at the best of times. Stir in a pandemic discouraging intern...
Nov 18, 2020
Ottawa delays small nuclear reactor plan as critics decry push for new reactors
TORONTO - Canadians will have to wait a little while longer to see the federal government's plan for the development of small nuclear reactors, seen by proponents as critical to the country's fight ag...
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
COVID-19 exposure on Air Canada flight to Prince George
PRINCE GEORGE - The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) is reporting a confirmed case of COVID-19 on a flight from Vancouver to Prince George.The BCCDC says it was occurred on Air Canada flight 8201...
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
"The Good Doctor" actor Richard Schiff hospitalized with COVID-19
VANCOUVER - Actor Richard Schiff, who appears on the Vancouver-filmed TV series "The Good Doctor," has been hospitalized with COVID-19. The 65-year-old American performer, who stars as president of th...
Nov 18, 2020