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The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):11:15 a.m.Quebec is reporting 1,378 new COVID-19 cases and 22 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, six of which occur...
Nov 11, 2020
Five federal inmates test positive for COVID-19 as case counts spike across Canada
OTTAWA - The Correctional Service of Canada says five inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 in Quebec, Manitoba and Alberta. It says contract tracing is underway and testing is being offered at th...
Nov 11, 2020
Dispute over access prompts AP to drop CMA Awards coverage
NEW YORK - The Associated Press has pulled out of its planned coverage of Wednesday's Country Music Association Awards show due to restrictions that have been placed on still photographers and screen ...
Nov 11, 2020
Tree of Lights returning to PG, partnering in Fort St. John
PRINCE GEORGE - The top of the Coast Prince George Hotel will once again be lit up this holiday season as the United Way of Northern BC has announced the Tree of Lights will return for what the organi...
Nov 11, 2020
Officials: 3 wounded in blast at non-Muslim Saudi cemetery
PARIS - Three people were wounded Wednesday when an improvised explosive device targeted a ceremony of French, American, British, Italian and Greek officials commemorating the end of World War I at a ...
Nov 11, 2020
A festival hit waylaid by the virus, ‘The Climb’ peddles on
NEW YORK - "The Climb" is a portrait of a male friendship told in single-shot chapters with cataclysmic happenings - marriage, death, children - in between. With each lurch forward, we have to get our...
Nov 11, 2020
Eta regains hurricane strength as Florida prepares for hit
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Eta regained hurricane strength Wednesday morning as Florida braced for a second hit from the storm. The storm's maximum sustained winds increased to around 75 mph (120 kph) of...
Nov 11, 2020
Lawyer: Britney Spears fears father, wants him out of career
LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears fears her father and will not resume her career so long as he has power over it, her attorney said in court Tuesday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny declined...
Nov 11, 2020
Research sheds light on Alexander Hamilton as slave owner
ALBANY, N.Y. - A new research paper takes a swipe at the popular image of Alexander Hamilton as the abolitionist founding father, citing evidence he was a slave trader and owner himself. "Not only did...
Nov 11, 2020
Bahrain's long-serving prime minister dies at age 84
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Bahrain's Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, one of the world's longest-serving prime ministers who led his island nation's government for decades and survived the 201...
Nov 11, 2020