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Health officials 'steering in uncertain waters' in tackling 2nd wave of COVID-19: Tam
Canada's top public health officer says the complexities of the current wave of COVID-19 are spurring regions with rising cases to adopt different measures as they seek to turn the tide of the pa...
Oct 05, 2020

The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 2:10 p.m. The Manitoba government is requiring bars and other licensed establishments in the greater Winnipeg region to close ea...
Oct 05, 2020

Royal Opera to sell Hockney painting to help it stay afloat
LONDON - Britain's Royal Opera House is selling a David Hockney painting of its former chief to help it stay afloat as coronavirus-related restrictions keep many U.K. performing arts venues shuttered....
Oct 05, 2020

Feds reveal details of $35M fund to help make farms safer in COVID-19 pandemic
OTTAWA - Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says some Canadian farmers can now apply for emergency funding to protect their workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will subsidize farms...
Oct 05, 2020

RCMP remind business owners to lock up for the night
DAWSON CREEK-RCMP in Dawson Creek are reminding local businesses to lock up.In a tweet Dawson Creek RCMP say that on several of their evening patrols over the last week they have discovered that sever...
Oct 05, 2020

Northern B.C. man has no plans to retire after winning jackpot
PRINCE RUPERT-A Northern B.C. resident says he has no intentions of quitting his job after hitting the jackpot.Prince Rupert's Rocky Paolo managed to match five consecutive icons on PlayNow.com's Chai...
Oct 05, 2020

Alexis Lafreniere, fellow NHL hopefuls ready for pandemic-delayed NHL draft
Alexis Lafreniere was supposed to hear his named called in front of family, friends and an adoring crowd inside Montreal's Bell Centre. The presumptive top pick in the 2020 NHL draft from nearby St-Eu...
Oct 05, 2020

Canadian Raphael Lessard says first NASCAR win is a "dream come true"
Raphael Lessard's phone has not cooled off since he won his first career NASCAR race Saturday afternoon. "I've never had that many interviews after a race, that many calls. I feel like my phone is goi...
Oct 05, 2020

SARS was 'dress rehearsal for COVID-19' but Canada failed health-care workers: report
Canada put health-care workers at risk of contracting COVID-19 and taking it home to their families because it failed to learn lessons from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003, a new report says...
Oct 05, 2020

Collision at Davis and Ospika
.PRINCE GEORGE - RCMP were called to a vehicle collision involving a pedestrian on Ospika Boulevard and Davis Road on Sunday.At approximately 5:00 p.m. officers responded to calls. The pedestrian, an ...
Oct 05, 2020