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Year in review: A look at news events in May 2020
A look at news events in May 2020: 01 - Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, considered the driver of the Afrobeat sound that featured prominent guitars, complex brass harmonies and polyrhythmic drumming, d...
Dec 31, 2020
Year in review: A look at news events in July 2020
A look at news events in July 2020: 01 - Canada, the U.S. and Mexico officially enacted the new North American free-trade deal, after months of gruelling negotiations and several setbacks. 01 - The CO...
Dec 31, 2020
Dick Thornburgh, ex-governor and US attorney general, dies
Dick Thornburgh, who as Pennsylvania governor won plaudits for his cool handling of the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis and as U.S. attorney general restored credibility to a Justice Department hurt by ...
Dec 31, 2020
Year in review: A look at news events in March 2020
A look at news events in March 2020: 01 - Former U.S. vice-president Joe Biden scored a resounding victory in South Carolina's Democratic primary, riding a wave of African-American support to get some...
Dec 31, 2020
No charges for police in death of 'boogaloo' movement martyr
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Maryland prosecutors have ruled out criminal charges against any police officers in the shooting death of a man whose family says he was sleeping in his bed next to his girlfriend ...
Dec 31, 2020
Lloydminster nurses share world junior 50/50 jackpot
After a long stressful year on the frontlines battling COVID-19, a group of nurses in Lloydminster is ending 2020 on a high note.The eight women from the maternity unit are sharing $241,850 after winn...
Dec 31, 2020
Industry, local mayors say they weren't consulted on B.C. fish farm phase out plan
Several Vancouver Island mayors and members of British Columbia's salmon farming industry say a federal government decision to phase out fish farming has left them feeling "disposable and discarded." ...
Dec 31, 2020
Alberta approves NHL games for Edmonton, Calgary after feds waive quarantine rule
Alberta is the first province to officially say the NHL can play games in its arenas during the upcoming season.In a statement to The Canadian Press on Thursday, the Alberta government said it approve...
Dec 31, 2020
Glenda Jackson returns to screen with 'Elizabeth Is Missing'
NEW YORK - Only one project lured two-time Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson back to the screen after an absence of 25 years: "Elizabeth Is Missing." The film is a mystery but so much more - a power...
Dec 31, 2020
One Good Thing: Special Olympian spreads message of love
Gary Schottle arrived in time to see the other kids in line hitting and jumping on his young son. Nicknamed "Tank," Derek towered over the pestering kids, yet lacked the confidence to stick up for him...
Dec 31, 2020