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Planning starts anew for rugby sevens teams in wake of Olympic postponement
Hours after the IOC pushed back the Tokyo Olympics to 2021, Canadian women's rugby sevens coach John Tait scheduled a conference call with his players. Topics included what's next - and whet...
Mar 24, 2020
Community spread of COVID-19 within Canada now rising
OTTAWA - Canada's chief medical health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says overall in Canada, an equal number of Canadians who have tested positive for COVID-19 contracted the virus from travel and from tran...
Mar 24, 2020
Montreal Canadiens making temporary job cuts during COVID-19 crisis
MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens are reducing their workforce during the COVID-19 crisis. Groupe CH, which also owns the American Hockey League's Laval Rocket, says it will proceed with a tempor...
Mar 24, 2020
NorSask slashes workforce by half in response to COVID-19 uncertainty
NorSask Forestry Products Inc. will be slashing its workforce in half in response to COVID-19 and U.S. market uncertainty. Al Balisky, president and CEO of Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) Industrial...
Mar 24, 2020 (Nicole Reis/meadowlakeNOW Staff)
Parks Canada to close national parks, historic sites to vehicle traffic
Parks Canada is restricting vehicles in national parks and national historic sites after people flocked to the popular areas on the weekend.The federal agency said it's still noticing lots of visitors...
Mar 24, 2020
No extension for ice fishers to remove shacks
As the weather warms and the ice thins, the COVID-19 outbreak is not going to be an excuse to leave your ice-fishing shack on the ice. A Prince Albert Conservation Officer is reminding everyone all fi...
Mar 24, 2020 Ice-fishing shacks north of Highway 16 must be removed from lakes by March 31. (Ronald Quaroni/paNOW Staff)
Hockey Canada backs Scott Salmond after anti-doping suspension upheld
Hockey Canada is backing senior vice-president of national teams Scott Salmond after his suspension for an anti-doping rule violation was upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Spo...
Mar 24, 2020
No immediate plans to use cell phone tracking in COVID-19 fight: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau says the federal government has no immediate plans to use cellphone data to track people's movements during the COVID-19 crisis. But the prime minister adds that all ...
Mar 24, 2020
The latest numbers of COVID-19 cases in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 12:30 p.m. on March 24, 2020: There are 2187 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 628 confirmed (includin...
Mar 24, 2020
Canadian rugby sevens veteran Harry Jones looks to wait out the storm
It was just over two weeks ago that Harry Jones was playing in front of a Canadian-record rugby crowd of 39,533 on Day 1 of the HSBC Canada Sevens in Vancouver. The Canadian rugby sevens men went on w...
Mar 24, 2020