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Flame arrival faces calls for Tokyo Olympics be delayed
TOKYO - The Olympic flame is set to arrive in Japan from Greece even as the opening of the Tokyo Games in four months is in doubt with more voices calling for the event to be postponed or cancelled be...
Mar 19, 2020
Flame arrival faces calls for Tokyo Olympics be delayed
TOKYO - The Olympic flame is set to arrive in Japan from Greece even as the opening of the Tokyo Games in four months is in doubt with more voices calling for the event to be postponed or cancelled be...
Mar 19, 2020
Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce dismayed at communication gaps in gov't response to COVID-19
NANAIMO - The province's announcement ministers will reconvene on Monday, March 23 to pass legislation about the economic impacts of COVID-19 did not sit well with some at the frontlines. "Waiting unt...
Mar 19, 2020 B.C.'s public safety minister Mike Farnworth (left), federal finance minister Bill Morneau (centre) and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (right), who all made major announcements on Wednesday. (The Canadian Press)
Brazil's Bolsonaro strives to regain leadership amid virus
RIO DE JANEIRO - After questioning the seriousness of COVID-19, defying his own health ministry's recommendations and denouncing a "certain hysteria," Brazil's president is now projecting himself as l...
Mar 19, 2020
Major League Rugby shuts down season due to COVID-19, says it will return in 2021
TORONTO - Major League Rugby has called off the remainder of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Commissioner George Killebrew calls it the correct decision given the health and safety risks...
Mar 19, 2020
Cruise ship with COVID-19 cases and Canadians on board docks in France
MARSEILLE, France - A trans-Atlantic cruise ship carrying several COVID-19 cases among its passengers and with dozens of Canadians aboard has docked in the French Mediterranean port city of Marseille....
Mar 19, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 8:45 a.m. British Columbia's Municipal Affairs Ministry has cancelled three municipal byelections and a referendum in fou...
Mar 19, 2020
US pauses Afghanistan deployments, isolates arrivals there
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military says it is pausing the movement of any new troops into Afghanistan and is quarantining 1,500 troops and civilians who recently arrived in order to protect them from the ...
Mar 19, 2020
Canada, U.S. working out details of cross-border non-essential travel ban
OTTAWA - Closure of the world's longest undefended border will begin in earnest today as Canada and the United States work out the details of banning non-essential travel between the two countries. Pr...
Mar 19, 2020
The latest numbers of COVID-19 cases in Canada as of March 19, 2020
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 5:30 a.m. ET on March 19, 2020: There are 727 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ British Columbia: 23...
Mar 19, 2020