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SSR Mining Inc. and Alacer Gold Corp. to merge in all-stock transaction
VANCOUER, B.C. - SSR Mining Inc. and Alacer Gold Corp. have signed a deal to merge operations. Under the all-stock deal, Alacer shareholders will receive 0.3246 SSR Mining shares for each Alacer share...
May 11, 2020
Scheer backs Liberal Taiwan push at WHO as move long advocated by Conservatives
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is backing the Liberal government's efforts to include Taiwan in the World Health Organization discussions on COVID-19, a position that China opposes. But Sc...
May 11, 2020
Nova Scotia mass killer's semi-automatic guns believed to have come from U.S.
HALIFAX - The RCMP says three of the four semi-automatic weapons used by a gunman during last month's mass shooting in Nova Scotia are believed to have come from the Unit...
May 11, 2020
AHL cancels remainder of its season and playoffs because of COVID-19 pandemic
The American Hockey League did the expected Monday, cancelling the remainder of its season and playoffs because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The AHL made the announcement following a vote by its board of...
May 11, 2020
Feds pledge COVID-19 financing help for the country's biggest companies
OTTAWA - The federal government says it will provide loans and financing to the country's largest employers to help them weather the COVID-19 economic crisis. The Liberals are promising bridge financi...
May 11, 2020
Heart failure not to be forgotten during COVID-19 pandemic
NANAIMO - With COVID-19 capturing headlines about the respiratory system, it's important to remember what's at the heart of the matter. Heart failure awareness week recently ran from May 4 to May 10. ...
May 11, 2020
Sen. Ted Cruz writing book on Supreme Court cases
NEW YORK - Sen. Ted Cruz is working on a book, to be published in October, about the Supreme Court. Regnery Publishing announced Monday that the book was called "One Vote Away" and would draw upon the...
May 11, 2020
'Hockey 24' documentary a welcome return to Canada's signature game
TORONTO - When Scotiabank asked Canadians to share video snippets of community hockey across the country on Nov. 17, it hoped to capture something special. But it had no idea that hockey - like a...
May 11, 2020
Jerry Stiller, comedian and 'Seinfeld' actor, dies at 92
NEW YORK - Comedy veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash tele...
May 11, 2020
Pandemic creates electoral uncertainty for Trump, Democrats
Presidential politics move fast. What we're watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign: ___ Days to general election: 176 ___ THE NARRATIVE President Donald Trump's reelection is facing gro...
May 11, 2020