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The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Aug. 19
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. on Aug. 19, 2020: There are 123,154 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 61,252 confirmed (including 5,727 deaths, 54,083 res...
Aug 19, 2020
Iran surpasses 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran surpassed 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus on Wednesday, the health ministry said - the highest death toll for any Middle East country so far in the pandemic. The annou...
Aug 19, 2020
Hundreds evacuated, thousands on notice as wildfire flares in southern B.C.
PENTICTON, B.C. - Hundreds of residents in British Columbia's southern Okanagan are out of their homes and thousands more must be ready to leave on short notice as a nearby wildfire grows in size...
Aug 19, 2020
Hundreds evacuated, thousands on notice as wildfire flares in southern B.C.
PENTICTON, B.C. - Hundreds of residents in British Columbia's southern Okanagan are out of their homes and thousands more must be ready to leave on short notice as a nearby wildfire grows in size...
Aug 19, 2020
UNBC Professors participate in collaborative effort to make B.C.'s outdoors more accessible
PRINCE GEORGE-Several UNBC professors have been working to make outdoor spaces across the province more accessible to British Columbians.The research is being supported with a $24,000 Social Sciences ...
Aug 19, 2020
Official: Kanye signature work in Wyoming too close to polls
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Rapper and music producer Kanye West's campaign ran into trouble Tuesday on his first day of trying to get on the presidential ballot in his home state of Wyoming. People gathering si...
Aug 19, 2020
Detailed plans in place for careful removal of Lee statue
RICHMOND, Va. - When the bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived by rail in Richmond from Paris in 1890, it took 10,000 men, women and children to haul its pieces more than a mile to th...
Aug 19, 2020
Docs suggest bureaucrats were nudged to look to WE Charity for student program
OTTAWA - Thousands of pages of newly released documents back up the Trudeau government's contention that it was federal public servants who recommended a student service grant program be adm...
Aug 19, 2020
Lawsuit: Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. raped New York woman in 2013
NEW YORK - Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is accused of raping a woman twice in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013, according to a lawsuit that escalates the severity of the growing number of claims against him. ...
Aug 19, 2020
YXS continuing a trend of gradual recovery
PRINCE GEORGE-Three times the amount of people travelled through the Prince George Airport in July, compared to June,0 continuing to pave the way to a gradual recovery amidst the pandemic.9,707 passen...
Aug 19, 2020