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Prayer and faith services offered online for those in need during self-isolation period
Prayer services and faith-based ceremonies in the region are making adjustments to regular scheduled services to accommodate the community and provincial guidelines of social distancing during the COV...
Mar 20, 2020 (Submitted/All Saints Orthodox Church Meadow Lake Facebook)
Marble Madness! Obscure sports rule in coronavirus pandemic
PHILADELPHIA - Welcome to the Marble Universe, where the rushing of glass balls down race tracks, around sandy beach corners or getting thumped by fidget spinners has suddenly become as captivating as...
Mar 20, 2020
Toronto Blue Jays send Anthony Kay, Sean Reid-Foley to triple-A
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have optioned left-hander Anthony Kay and right-hander Sean Reid-Foley to triple-A Buffalo. The moves come during an indefinite suspension of all professional baseball ...
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
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