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High school grads-to-be grapple with possible ceremony cancellations
Urmila Persaud spent months picturing herself walking across a stage to collect her high-school diploma in front of friends and family. But the COVID-19 pandemic has replaced that vision with a big qu...
May 03, 2020
Trudeau: NHL players would need to follow quarantine before season could resume
The NHL could face another hurdle if the league decides to continue the 2019-20 season in the near future - getting non-Canadian resident players across the border to join their respective t...
May 03, 2020
Trudeau says legislation on municipal handgun bans coming
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government plans to move ahead with legislation letting municipalities ban handguns within their borders, though he isn't giving a timeline. The Trudeau...
May 03, 2020
Feds investing in online health-care, Vancouver company studying COVID-19
OTTAWA - The federal government is investing millions to boost online access to health services and to support a Vancouver biological company's research into treatment and prevention of COVID-19. Prim...
May 03, 2020
Lawsuits over COVID-19 handling in nursing homes raise questions about standard of care
TORONTO - As the deadly toll of COVID-19 on Canada's nursing homes gives rise to a growing number of proposed class-action lawsuits, some legal experts say the cases will turn on what's considere...
May 03, 2020
Snowbirds fly over Nova Scotia to mark naval helicopter crash, mass shooting
HALIFAX - The famed Snowbirds aerobatics team is flying over Nova Scotia communities today in an effort to remember lost comrades in a naval helicopter crash and to lift the spirits of a province...
May 03, 2020
Former Montreal Canadiens player Georges Laraque describes COVID-19 battle
MONTREAL - A couple of weeks ago, former Montreal Canadiens tough guy Georges Laraque was running five or six days a week as he trained for a marathon. Now, the former NHL enforcer...
May 03, 2020
'Very lucky:' Retired firefighter in hospital for one month battling COVID-19
WINNIPEG - Rick Sterzer was lying at home struggling to breathe. Each day it was harder to get air into his lungs. The 65-year-old retired Winnipeg firefighter had tested negative ...
May 03, 2020
Chiefs concerned about mental health impacts of COVID-19 in their First Nations
OTTAWA - A few months before the novel coronavirus arrived in Canada, the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation at Loon Lake, Sask. was already raising the alarm over suicides in the community...
May 03, 2020
Rapid test for COVID-19 recalled after Health Canada expresses concerns
OTTAWA - A rapid test developed for COVID-19 has experienced a setback. Ottawa's Spartan Bioscience says it is voluntarily recalling its COVID-19 product and performing additional studies after Health...
May 03, 2020