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WHL teams will need fans in seats to operate next season, says commissioner
CALGARY - Western Hockey League teams need their arenas at least half full with spectators next season to operate, according to the league's commissioner. The COVID-19 pandemic has shut down larg...
Jun 18, 2020
BDC ready to roll with loans for mid-sized companies hit hard by COVID-19
OTTAWA - Mid-sized Canadian businesses that are strapped for cash because of COVID-19 can now apply through their own banks to get loans of up to $60 million from the federal government. The loans, to...
Jun 18, 2020
Billie Eilish gets 3-year restraining order for trespasser
LOS ANGELES - A judge has extended to three years a restraining order taken out by Billie Eilish against a man who repeatedly appeared at her Los Angeles home. In a hearing, Superior Court Judge Diann...
Jun 18, 2020
Senate ethics committee urges censure of Tory senator over trip to China
OTTAWA - The Senate's ethics committee is recommending that a Conservative senator be censured for breaching the upper house's ethics code when he accepted an all-expenses-paid trip to China in 2...
Jun 18, 2020
Too many visitors forces B.C. to shut park on Canada-U.S. boundary
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia park that straddles the 49th parallel with Washington state will be closed because it's overwhelmed with visitors using it as a cross-border meeting point. The governm...
Jun 18, 2020
School guidelines include classroom modifications, strict hygiene and sanitization
The hoarding of toilet paper may be over, but be prepared for it to now start with hand sanitizer.It is going to be one of the major items kids and staff will need when they return to classrooms in Se...
Jun 18, 2020
Bad chocks, brake training blamed for crunching of prime minister's plane
OTTAWA - Military investigators say the Royal Canadian Air Force plane normally used by the prime minister hit a hangar wall last year after a maintenance crew used the wrong chocks, and not enough of...
Jun 18, 2020
Bombers president Miller comes to defence of CFL commissioner Ambrosie
TORONTO - Winnipeg Blue Bombers president Wade Miller came to defence of embattled CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie on Thursday. Ambrosie has come under heavy criticism recently from CFL...
Jun 18, 2020
Lawsuit heard, movies, amusement parks get guidance
CONCORD, N.H. - A man should not be allowed to sue over a Nashua face-covering ordinance and the governor's declaration of a state of emergency because he has not cited any specific harm, lawyers said...
Jun 18, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 3:58 p.m. on June 18, 2020: There are 100,163 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 54,383 confirmed (incl...
Jun 18, 2020