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Rural doctors and mayors ask city-dwellers to stay home and not tax system
Rural health-care providers and small-town politicians are pleading with snowbirds and city-dwellers to stay at their primary homes during the COVID-19 pandemic rather than self-isolating in more remo...
Mar 27, 2020
B.C. ‘cautiously optimistic’ about COVID-19 forecast, but warns hospitals could still be overwhelmed
VICTORIA - B.C.'s top doctor says she is optimistic that social-distancing measures put in place are helping to "level off" the spread of the novel coronavirus, but warns hospitals could still be over...
Mar 27, 2020
Trump accuses GM of overpromising on breathing machines
DETROIT - President Donald Trump attacked General Motors Friday, alleging that the company promised to build thousands more breathing machines than it can deliver for coronavirus patients and that it ...
Mar 27, 2020
COVID-19 closures: It's as if Ottawa has fallen off the electricity grid
TORONTO - It's as if the COVID-19 epidemic had tripped a circuit breaker, shutting off all power to a city the size of Ottawa. Virus-induced restrictions that have shut down large swaths of normal com...
Mar 27, 2020
Commissioner Randy Ambrosie says CFL draft still on for April 30
TORONTO - CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie says the league's draft remains on schedule - at least for now. Ambrosie addressed the status of the April 30 draft during a question-and-...
Mar 27, 2020
Toronto FC players busy behind closed doors thanks to some quick thinking
TORONTO - It's been 20-plus years since Jim Liston used to train Greg Vanney and Dan Calichman in a small space in Pasadena, Calif. "We had very little space," Liston recalled. "About 2,000 squar...
Mar 27, 2020
Financial aid requests won't be hindered by Service Canada closures: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Service Canada employees can and should be working from home, despite the growing demand generated by financial aid applications. The federal government ann...
Mar 27, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. on March 27, 2020: There are 4,178 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 1,629 confirmed (including...
Mar 27, 2020
House of Davis Love III destroyed by early morning fire
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. - The house of Hall of Fame golfer Davis Love III was destroyed by fire early Friday morning in a blaze that could not be controlled, even with 16 firefighters arriving within m...
Mar 27, 2020
AP sources: MLBers keep service time in deal; draft may trim
NEW YORK - Players agreed to a deal with Major League Baseball that would preserve service time in the event this season is cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but left open details of what...
Mar 27, 2020