Could “Hockey Night In Canada” return as … “Hockey Night In Edmonton?” That could very well be the case, as the NHL ponders a return to televised professional hockey this summer. The NHL season was paused on March 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but sources told ESPN this week the league is considering reviving […]
Ontario Premier Doug Ford didn’t mince words when calling out dozens of “irresponsible, reckless and selfish” people protesting the province’s COVID-19 emergency measures outside of Queen’s Park in Toronto on Saturday. Footage posted online showed the protesters were in violation of Ontario’s physical distancing rules, which includes keeping at least two metres apart and avoiding […]
TORONTO — Ontario’s premier is calling for a national strategy on contact tracing. Doug Ford says he spoke with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday about the matter and planned to make the case to his provincial counterparts this week. “We need a national plan for contact tracing. Right now each individual province is […]
The gradual reopening of Canada’s economy will not mean business as usual for the country’s public transit agencies. Despite the fact that a slowly growing number of workers will make their way back to the country’s buses, streetcars and subways as they return to workplaces shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the systems that will help […]
TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford teased good news on steps toward reopening for retail stores, parks, cottagers and people missing loved ones Monday, as long as the province’s COVID-19 numbers keep going down. Ontario reported 370 new cases of COVID-19 Monday, bringing the provincial total 2.1 per cent higher than the previous day, part of […]
OTTAWA — The federal government has outlawed a wide range of rifles with the aim of making Canada safer, saying the guns were designed for the battlefield, not hunting or sport shooting. The ban issued Friday covers some 1,500 models and variants of what the government considers assault-style firearms, meaning they cannot be legally used, […]
IQALUIT, Nunavut — Canada’s High Arctic may still be free of the novel coronavirus. A case of COVID-19 supposedly confirmed in the remote Nunavut community of Pond Inlet last week has turned out to be a false positive. “Huge relief,” said David Stockley, the hamlet’s chief administrative officer. “It answered a lot of prayers for a […]
The Pentagon has released three U.S. Navy videos that show what the U.S. Department of Defense calls “unexplained aerial phenomena.” One video is of an incident in November 2004, while the other two were recorded in January 2015, according to CBS News. The videos, which were taken by U.S. Navy fighter pilots during training exercises, were […]
VICTORIA — British Columbia has reached the point in the COVID-19 pandemic where it will start a gradual reopening of the economy while also allowing social interactions between families, friends and communities to increase. The plan to restart the province begins with certain health services, retail outlets, restaurants, salons, museums and parks resuming some operations […]
BUTTE COUNTY, CA – The death toll continues to climb in the Camp Fire in Northern California, the deadliest wildfire in state history. Officials said they discovered the remains of seven more people on Thursday, Nov. 15, bringing the death toll to 63. Three victims were found in Magalia, three were found in Paradise, and […]