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Federal government tosses dozens of claims from vets who died without survivors
OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs Canada has tossed dozens of claims for disability benefits by veterans or retired RCMP officers who died without an eligible survivor or dependant - many while their app...
May 16, 2020
Iced coffees and orange juice: as schools remain shut, locker contents ripen
For months, their contents have sat locked up in the stale hallway air in schools across the country. The jackets, books and gym shoes - along with more perishable items - were left beh...
May 16, 2020
Trudeau sees travel between PM's 'cottages' as trips between work and home
OTTAWA - While Canadians are being counselled to avoid travelling to their cottages during the COVID-19 pandemic, Justin Trudeau is expected to spend the first long weeke...
May 16, 2020
Overdoses 'sadly normalized' in British Columbia: addictions minister
VANCOUVER - A rising death toll from overdoses in B.C. during the COVID-19 pandemic has advocates, government officials and health-care workers concerned about a public health emergency that has been&...
May 16, 2020
Autopsy: Pilot in Kobe Bryant crash had no alcohol, drugs
LOS ANGELES - The pilot flying Kobe Bryant and seven others to a youth basketball tournament outside Los Angeles did not have alcohol or drugs in his system, and all sustained immediately fatal injuri...
May 15, 2020
Autopsy: Pilot in Kobe Bryant crash had no alcohol, drugs
LOS ANGELES - The pilot flying Kobe Bryant and seven others to a youth basketball tournament did not have alcohol or drugs in his system, and all nine sustained immediately fatal injuries when their h...
May 15, 2020
COVID-19 numbers stabilizing in La Loche, contact tracing continues over weekend
Active COVID-19 cases in La Loche remain steady as the community resumes testing over the weekend. The northern village reported four new cases today and Clearwater River Dene Nation saw a slight jump...
May 15, 2020
Rugby Canada cuts player payments, says it will need financial help later in 2020
TORONTO - Citing financial pressures due to the global pandemic, Rugby Canada has cancelled "training support payments" for its centralized men's and women's players as of May 1. The players get a mon...
May 15, 2020
NFL teams can reopen facilities Tuesday - with provisos
NFL teams can begin reopening their facilities on Tuesday if state and local governments will allow it. In a memo sent to the 32 teams Friday by Commissioner Roger Goodell and obtained by The Associat...
May 15, 2020
NFL teams can reopen facilities Tuesday - with provisos
NFL teams can begin reopening their facilities on Tuesday if state and local governments will allow it. In a memo sent to the 32 teams Friday by Commissioner Roger Goodell and obtained by The Associat...
May 15, 2020