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Edmonton Elks revise number of COVID-19 cases following false positive
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Elks say they have gone three-straight days without recording a new positive COVID-19 test. The news comes a week after Edmonton's game against the Toronto Argonauts, initially...
Aug 29, 2021
A list of milestones in Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister's political career
WINNIPEG - A timeline of major events in Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister's political career: Sept. 15, 1992: Pallister wins a provincial byelection in Portage la Prairie. He is re-elected in 1995 and...
Aug 29, 2021
Excerpts from an interview with Manitoba premier as he prepares to leave office
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister has said that he plans to step down Wednesday. Here are some quotes from an interview with The Canadian Press: On low polling numbers: "If you govern with a...
Aug 29, 2021
CP NewsAlert: Brian Pallister says he will step down as Manitoba premier on Wednesday
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says he will step down on Wednesday. Pallister had announced earlier this month his plan to retire and not seek re-election. The Progressive Conservative pa...
Aug 29, 2021
Active COVID-19 cases in province eclipse 2,000-mark
With 257 new COVID-19 cases reported on Sunday, Saskatchewan has now eclipsed the 2,000 active case mark. There are now 2,065 active cases in the province, an increase of 78 from Saturday. There were ...
Aug 29, 2021
After dearth of hockey, Canadian women's hockey team savours Beijing preparation
CALGARY - Never have players on the Canadian women's hockey team looked forward to the rigours of pre-Olympic preparation more. Ice time wasn't always available during the COVID-19 pandemic, let alone...
Aug 29, 2021
Montreal mayor invests $5.5 million to boost police resources to fight gun crime
Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante says the city will invest an additional $5.5 million in its police force in order to help fight gun crime. Plante said today alongside Chief Sylvain Caron that the amount ...
Aug 29, 2021
Flames consume high-rise in Milan; residents evacuated
MILAN (AP) - Italian firefighters on Sunday battled a high-rise blaze in Milan that was spreading rapidly through a 20-story residential building. Residents were hurriedly evacuated. There were no imm...
Aug 29, 2021
Canada's Lakatos has won nine Paralympic medals since nearly retiring in 2008
Canadian wheelchair racer Brent Lakatos nearly retired after the Beijing Paralympics, but the pull of a medal proved too strong. That was 13 years and three Games ago. Now the 41-year-old from Dorval,...
Aug 29, 2021
O'Toole won't dismiss candidates anti-climate change comments
SAINT-HYACINTHE, Que. - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole would not distance himself Sunday from comments made by a longtime Conservative MP who warned constituents the Liberals are preparing for a "cl...
Aug 29, 2021