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USA Swimming urges USOPC to ask for delay of Tokyo Games
DENVER - The head of USA Swimming urged the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to push for a 12-month postponement of the Tokyo Games, signalling the first fissure between powerful American faction...
Mar 20, 2020

USA Swimming urges USOPC to ask for delay of Tokyo Games
DENVER - The head of USA Swimming urged the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to push for a 12-month postponement of the Tokyo Games, signalling the first fissure between powerful American faction...
Mar 20, 2020

Sask. announces financial support plan for those dealing with COVID-19
The provincial government has revealed a financial support plan for employers and employees in Saskatchewan who are dealing with COVID-19."During this time of great uncertainty, it is of the utmost im...
Mar 20, 2020 Premier Scott Moe (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)

Quebec to move all lottery ticket sales online to avoid spread of COVID-19
MONTREAL - Quebec's lottery corporation says it will soon sell lottery tickets only online amid fears of the novel coronavirus. A spokesman for Loto-Quebec said on Twitter today that it...
Mar 20, 2020

Call for COVID-19 protective equipment spurs college, distiller, TV show to help
VICTORIA - The novel coronavirus shut down the respiratory therapy program at Fanshawe College but that didn't stop the school from supplying much needed frontline equipment to fight COVID-19. Pr...
Mar 20, 2020

Major League Soccer extends training moratorium due to COVID-19 outbreak
TORONTO - Major League Soccer has extended its moratorium on team training through March 27. The news comes one day after the league announced that, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, it was extending its ...
Mar 20, 2020

Illinois governor orders residents to stay at home
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday ordered all state residents to remain in their homes except for essentials, joining similar dramatic efforts in California and New York to lim...
Mar 20, 2020

Head of Saskatchewan medical group says he got COVID-19 at doctors' bonspiel
REGINA - An investigation is underway in at least two provinces after a Saskatchewan doctor who attended a curling bonspiel in Edmonton tested positive for COVID-19. Dr. Allan Woo, president of the Sa...
Mar 20, 2020

The latest numbers of COVID-19 cases in Canada as of March 20, 2020
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 3 p.m. on March 20, 2020: There are 943 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Ontario: 308 confirmed (including 2 ...
Mar 20, 2020

Peterson slams party's refusal to adjust leadership rules amid COVID-19 crisis
OTTAWA - Alberta businessman Rick Peterson is abandoning his bid to lead the federal Conservatives, citing the party's refusal to adjust eligibility rules in the midst of the COVID-19 c...
Mar 20, 2020