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Senators head coach D.J. Smith on California road trip: 'The fear hadn't set in'
D.J. Smith noticed something when his Ottawa Senators arrived in northern California last month. There weren't many people around. "At that point, no one knew what we know now," the team's r...
Apr 08, 2020
More COVID-19 aid, PPE needed for First Nations and Metis, leaders say
OTTAWA - First Nations and Metis leaders say they need more from Ottawa to combat COVID-19 in their communities, including money, assistance with security and help acquiring protec...
Apr 08, 2020
N.W.T. creates enforcement squad for public health orders around COVID-19
YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories is creating a squad of public health officers to enforce orders around the COVID-19 epidemic. N.W.T.'s chief medical officer of health Dr. Kami Kandol...
Apr 08, 2020
Restaurants that delayed opening face struggles amid COVID-19 pandemic
VANCOUVER - For the past 18 months, Nguyet Dang has been working to bring her dream of opening a Vietnamese restaurant to life. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Ten days before the planned op...
Apr 08, 2020
Canada won't tip hand on possibility of import tariffs on Saudi oil
OTTAWA - Canada's energy minister will speak to his U.S. and Mexican counterparts Thursday in a bid to generate a common front ahead of talks by the world's biggest economies aimed at ending the ...
Apr 08, 2020
Politicians ask public to work from home, but are they taking their own advice?
Canada's politicians have been urging the public to work from home during the COVID-19 crisis, but a look at federal and provincial leaders suggests not all of them are following their own a...
Apr 08, 2020
Calgary woman who died of COVID-19 was expecting 2020 to be best year: husband
CALGARY - A Calgary man whose wife died of COVID-19 last month says the two of them were expecting 2020 to be the best year of their lives. But things changed quickly in mid-March when Deb Diemer...
Apr 08, 2020
Demographic data 'essential' to track impacts of COVID-19: researchers
OTTAWA - Researchers are calling for more detailed data on who is getting and dying from COVID-19, to find out if specific minority or socioeconomic groups are unduly impacted. The Unit...
Apr 08, 2020
Lafrenière tops list of NHL draft-eligible prospects
Alexis Lafrenire, as expected, maintained the top spot in the NHL Central Scouting Bureau's final ranking of draft-eligible prospects released Wednesday. What remains uncertain for the 18-year-old Rim...
Apr 08, 2020
NHLers reflect on league pause: 'All of a sudden someone turns the car off'
Josh Morrissey figures he has more close friends on the Edmonton Oilers than any other rival NHL team. It led to some unusual heat-of-the-moment conversations for the Winnipeg defenceman the...
Apr 08, 2020