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N.S. woman describes struggles of a beloved father on a ventilator with COVID-19
The daughter of a Nova Scotia man relying on a ventilator to breathe wants Canadians to know that COVID-19 can deny loved ones the ability to hold one another in their ti...
Mar 30, 2020
Sens' Tkachuk says teammates who tested positive for COVID-19 are 'doing well'
Ottawa Senators winger Brady Tkachuk says two teammates who tested positive for COVID-19 are "doing well." Speaking on one of the NHL's video conference calls Monday, the 20-year-old adds the gro...
Mar 30, 2020
Singer John Prine is in stable condition, his wife says
NEW YORK - John Prine is in stable condition after being placed on a ventilator while being treated for COVID-19-type symptoms, his wife, Fiona Whelan Prine said Monday. The singer-songwriter's family...
Mar 30, 2020
Neighbours help save house after workshop destroyed in fire
NANAIMO - It was a team effort of firefighters and neighbours armed with garden hoses to preserve a Cathers Lake area home. Nanaimo Fire Rescue investigator Alan Millbank said the fire destroyed a lar...
Mar 30, 2020 Fire investigator Alan Millbank focuses on a section of a large workshop on Dockside Way where he believed a non-suspicious fire ignited Sunday, March 29. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Two inmates, nine employees at Quebec prison test positive for COVID-19
OTTAWA - Two inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 at a maximum-security prison in Quebec, the first confirmed cases involving prisoners in a federal institution. The Correctional Service of ...
Mar 30, 2020
Canadian military ready to mobilize 24,000 troops for COVID-19: defence minister
OTTAWA - The crews of two Royal Canadian Navy vessels were ordered to sequester in a Halifax hotel for two weeks as the federal government announced Monday that it is ready to mobilize up to 24,000 Ca...
Mar 30, 2020
Alberta heavyweight Tanner Boser waits for UFC to call again after COVID-19
His latest fight postponed because of the UFC's inability to find a place to stage it due to COVID-19, Alberta heavyweight Tanner (The Bulldozer) Boser is chilling in his condo with a couple of 40-pou...
Mar 30, 2020
Ferry operators call for inclusion in COVID-19 travel restrictions
OTTAWA - As new restrictions came into effect barring people with symptoms of COVID-19 from planes and trains, ferry operators called for the federal government to ban such travellers from their vesse...
Mar 30, 2020
Former CFL coach/GM Rita feeling sad for Italy's COVID-19 pandemic anguish
TORONTO - Adam Rita's heart aches over the toll the COVID-19 pandemic is taking on Italy. Italy, which had over 97,000 confirmed cases of the disease with more than 10,000 fatalities as of S...
Mar 30, 2020
Trump defends extending virus guidelines as spread continues
WASHINGTON - Siding with public health experts' dire projections, President Donald Trump on Monday defended his decision to extend restrictive social distancing guidelines through the end of April, wh...
Mar 30, 2020