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NFL players approve labour deal, including 17-game season
NFL players have approved a new labour agreement with the league that features a 17-game regular season, higher salaries, increased roster sizes and larger pensions for current and former players. The...
Mar 15, 2020
NFL players approve labour deal, including 17-game season
NFL players have approved a new labour agreement with the league that features a 17-game regular season, higher salaries, increased roster sizes and larger pensions for current and former players. The...
Mar 15, 2020
Fundraiser for Saddledome employees who will lose shifts raises over $39,000
CALGARY - A fundraiser for hourly workers at the Scotiabank Saddledome has raised over $39,000 after the company that owns the Calgary Flames told hourly staff they wouldn't receive pay for lost shift...
Mar 15, 2020
UFC plans to keep staging MMA shows, looks for new venues to host fight cards
LAS VEGAS - UFC president Dana White says the UFC will continue staging fights despite the COVID-19 outbreak. "Unless there's a total shutdown of the country, where people can't leave their houses and...
Mar 15, 2020
Trudeau says border closures, mandatory screening up for discussion
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says nothing is off the table when it comes to the next phase of Canada's response to the spread of COVID-19. Trudeau told CTV's Question Period this morning tha...
Mar 15, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 11:30 a.m. Nova Scotia has confirmed its first three presumptive cases of COVID-19. Public health officials say th...
Mar 15, 2020
VIU Women's Volleyball team crowned National Champions for third straight year
QUEBEC CITY - The VIU Mariners Women's Volleyball team have completed a perfect 29-0 season after winning Gold at the CCAA National Championships. The VIU Mariners defeated the lans de Garneau in four...
Mar 15, 2020 The VIU Women's Volleyball Team captured Gold at the CCAA Nationals on March 14th in Quebec City. (CCAA)
Specialized classroom program in Nanaimo seeing great success
NANAIMO - In six months a specialized mental health and education program has helped Nanaimo students turn their lives around. The Take a Hike program, run in the former Woodlands Secondary School, of...
Mar 15, 2020 Small groups of students in Take-A-Hike classrooms work on schedules suited to their needs with tangible results. (submitted/Take a Hike)
Rapid response COVID-19 science conducted by father and daughter virologists
HALIFAX - For a Halifax father and daughter dedicated to taking on global infectious diseases, the novel coronavirus has led to their latest, exhausting push to create tests a...
Mar 15, 2020
Town of Asbestos ready to change name and move beyond proud but toxic legacy
ASBESTOS, Que. - Retired miner Mario Leblanc stares at a giant map of his town from 1960 that hangs on the wall of the Asbestos, Que., historical society and laments how much his commun...
Mar 15, 2020