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B.C.'s top doctor says contact tracing resources stretched to the limit
VICTORIA - British Columbia's provincial health officer says contact tracers are "stretched to the max" and falling behind as they try to keep up with the province's growing COVID-19 infection rate. T...
Nov 12, 2020
Braves' Freeman wins NL MVP, White Sox slugger Abreu gets AL
NEW YORK - Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman easily won the NL MVP award Thursday, topping off a trying year that saw him become so ill with COVID-19 he prayed "please don't take me." Chica...
Nov 12, 2020
16 new COVID-19 cases for Island Health, Dr. Henry dives deep into B.C. stats
NANAIMO - A deep dive into COVID-19 stats in B.C. showed signs of promise amid the dispiriting rise in cases.Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry on Thursday, Nov. 12 confirmed more than 1,100 n...
Nov 12, 2020
Jays GM Atkins says he has "been close" on a deal, sees opportunity in market
Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins had just started a media conference call on Thursday when a call came in on his mobile phone. Some 15 minutes later, it was his iPad that started ringing. I...
Nov 12, 2020
Vancouver Whitecaps feel stronger, closer to playoffs after tough season
VANCOUVER - Russell Teibert knows there are people that counted the Vancouver Whitecaps out this season. It was a tough year for the club, a choppy campaign repeatedly interrupted by COVID-19, and var...
Nov 12, 2020
White separatist who spewed racial hatred dead at 82
LOS ANGELES - Tom Metzger, the notorious former Ku Klux Klan leader who rose to prominence in the 1980s while promoting white separatism and stoking racial violence, has died at age 82. Riverside Coun...
Nov 12, 2020
N.L. public health has COVID advice for the holiday mummering tradition
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador public health officials have issued advice for those looking to stay COVID-safe while marauding around town with underwear on the outside of their clothes....
Nov 12, 2020
Coronavirus deaths surpass 10,000 in hard-hit Massachusetts
BOSTON - Once a coronavirus hot spot, Massachusetts was seen as a model for infection control this summer as coronavirus cases and deaths dwindled. Now, experts are warning the state could be headed f...
Nov 12, 2020
Canada's Haley takes on hockey hopes of Hungarian women
Unable to coach the Ryerson Rams to a national women's university hockey title because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lisa Haley has applied her talents to an up-and-coming country. Hungary, which won prom...
Nov 12, 2020
First Nation to file series of lawsuits against N.S. government, commercial fishers
INDIAN BROOK, N.S. - A Mi'kmaq First Nation that encountered violence after it opened a self-regulated lobster fishery says it will sue non-Indigenous fishers and the Nova Scotia government for allege...
Nov 12, 2020