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• Have you lost an axe? High River RCMP seek owner of Viking weapon

  22-05-2020 23:54
  
  If you know someone who owns a longboat, High River RCMP might have found another one of their possessions. Police in High River, Alta. are hoping someone might know something about a unique weapon that was found in the bushes late last month. Officials say a resident notified them on April 28 after they found an axe lying in the bushes behind Eagleview Estates, a community in the town's north end. Since it was recovered, police have attempted to locate the owner, but have not been successful so
  
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• 'Quite pleased to see it again': 1999 hockey championship ring returned to rightful owner

  22-05-2020 23:53
  
  As soon as he heard the high-pitched squeal from his metal detector, Chris MacDonald knew he'd likely found something valuable. The unmistakable tone usually indicates something silver is just below the surface. But when he dug the object up – which turned out to be a ring – he quickly realized it was worth a lot more than money to someone. "The second I pulled it out of the ground, I saw '1999 Champions' and I was like 'OK, I can find out who owns this ring,'" he said. "It was about
  
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• Alberta reports two COVID-19 deaths, 32 cases

  22-05-2020 23:53
  
  Two more people have died as a result of COVID-19 in Alberta as the province reported 32 new cases Friday. A total of 134 people have died after contracting the coronavirus in Alberta and 6,800 have fallen ill with the disease since the pandemic started. As of Friday there were 865 active cases across the province, with 54 Albertans receiving care in hospital, including six patients in ICUs.Infographics: COVID-19 in Alberta by the numbers This is what we know about Alberta's COVID-19 cases More
  
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• In multiple days this week, Lethbridge & Cardston County add new COVID-19 cases - Lethbridge News Now

  22-05-2020 23:50 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  In multiple days this week, Lethbridge & Cardston County add new COVID-19 cases  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Man charged with assault after Alberta RCMP attacked with bear spray

  22-05-2020 23:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  On May 18, police responded to a complaint of a suspicious man carrying bear repellent in the Ermineskin townsite.
  
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• Notley says Kenney should reverse AER decision to suspend environmental monitoring of oil industry

  22-05-2020 23:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta's Opposition leader says Premier Jason Kenney should step in to reverse a decision by the province's energy regulator to suspend environmental monitoring.
  
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• Alberta Farm Fresh – helping you source farm fresh food - Lethbridge News Now

  22-05-2020 23:41 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Alberta Farm Fresh – helping you source farm fresh food  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Three months out from Tory leadership vote, Lewis positions herself as unity candidate

  22-05-2020 23:37
  
  The only woman and visible minority in the Tory leadership race is framing herself as the candidate best positioned to bridge together diverse conservative views across the country. In an interview on CTV’s Question Period with host Evan Solomon, Leslyn Lewis says it's time her colleagues come together on issues that unify the party like the economy and national security, as opposed to those that divide it. "I would just make sure that we are the big tent party, that we respect each other&
  
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• Kenney says Biden’s comments on Keystone XL ‘suggest he hasn’t been accurately briefed’

  22-05-2020 23:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  Jason Kenney disputed Biden's claims that the pipeline is neither economically viable nor environmentally responsible.
  
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• Calgary father fined $1,200 for not social distancing despite claim he followed the rules

  22-05-2020 23:32
  
  A Calgary father is still in disbelief after he was handed a $1,200 ticket for allegedly violating the public health act while he was out with his family at Deerfoot Athletic Park on the weekend. Cenek Patik was with his children on May 16, going through soccer drills with a few other other families and says they were all social distancing and never exceeded more than 15 people. “We followed the rules and I did my due diligence,” said Patik. “We should be allowed to do skills s
  
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• 'Like my world was shut down': Mask wearing hampers lip reading, Calgary woman encourages compassion

  22-05-2020 23:19
  
  As Canadian retailers call for shoppers to wear masks of face covering, some in the hard of hearing community say that presents major communications challenges. “It was like my world was shut down,” said Shayda Cummings. She’s hard of hearing and relies on lip reading for most of her daily interactions. When medical professionals and grocery store clerks have their mouths covered by personal protective equipment she says “it is impossible,” for her to understand whe
  
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• Body of Capt. Jennifer Casey, fallen member of Snowbirds, returns to Halifax on Sunday

  22-05-2020 22:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  The 35-year-old former journalist and public affairs officer for the Canadian Forces Snowbirds died last week after the jet she was flying in crashed in Kamloops, B.C.
  
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• Airdrie, Alta. opens playgrounds, warns residents that equipment is not sanitized

  22-05-2020 22:42
  
  Officials in Airdrie have reopened city playgrounds, which is welcome news for some parents who saw the structures blocked off in mid-March as a result of COVID-19. The community posted the news on Twitter Friday afternoon while also reminding residents to exercise proper health precautions.Airdrie playgrounds will re-open today at 5 p.m.: ✅Stay home if you’re sick ✅ Practice physical distancing of 2 metres ✅ Wash your hands before & after using equipment ❌ Gat
  
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• Hand sanitizer can ignite if left in a hot vehicle: Alberta doctors

  22-05-2020 22:30
  
  Doctors at Alberta Health Services say people using hand sanitizer when they are out shouldn't leave it in their cars for too long because it could lead to a fire. The advice comes in a daily COVID-19 newsletter distributed to physicians, volunteers and staff by AHS president Dr. Verna Yui and senior medical health officer Dr. Laura McDougall. They say handwashing with soap and warm water is still the best way to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But they note that's not always practical or possib
  
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• Calgary Zoo reopens after COVID-19 shutdown: What you need to know to visit

  22-05-2020 21:46
  
  Visitors to the Calgary Zoo will notice a lot of changes as the popular attraction reopens after a two-month shutdown due to COVID-19.  Thousands of people with memberships bought tickets and were welcomed Friday, one day ahead of reopening to the general public. Visitors will need to buy tickets online prior to arriving, which will have a designated time. Officials won’t be selling tickets at the gate and encourage guests to visit the zoo's website to check their adjusted hours.
  
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• Unresponsive pair suffering from unknown injuries found near Brooks, Alta.

  22-05-2020 21:34
  
  Brooks RCMP are investigating after two people, a man and woman, were found unresponsive in the vicinity of a vehicle north of the community Friday morning. Emergency crews were called to the parking lot of a business in the Boswell Industrial Park at 6 a.m. for reports of two people found in and near a brown Buick LeSabre car. Both victims were unresponsive and police say the male was suffering from a head injury. There are no details on how, if at all, the woman was injured. They were first ta
  
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• Alberta to reintroduce non-emergency surgeries, offer voluntary COVID-19 testing in long-term care facilities

  22-05-2020 21:11
  
  The availability of hospital beds in the province has allowed for the reintroduction of several services and residents and staff in long-term care facilities will soon have access to voluntary COVID-19 testing. Health Minister Tyler Shandro announced Friday that non-emergency surgical procedures requiring a hospital stay would be offered in Alberta again beginning next week and two maternity wards that had been temporarily shuttered would reopen. Maternity services at the South Health Campus in
  
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• Alberta ‘on-track’ for Phase 2 re-opening: Kenney

  22-05-2020 20:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says the province is on track for Phase 2 of relaunch.
  
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• ‘You’ll have to ask the AER’: Kenny responds to regulator’s suspension of monitoring requirements

  22-05-2020 20:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Premier Jason Kenney responds to the suspension of monitoring requirements by the Alberta Energy Regulator.
  
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• South Calgary Health Campus and High River Hospital to reopen maternity wards

  22-05-2020 20:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Health Minister Tyler Shandro announces the resumption of maternity services at the High River Hospital and the South Calgary Health Campus.
  
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• Kenney announces continuation of phased relaunch in Calgary and Brooks

  22-05-2020 20:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announces Calgary and Brooks will proceed with Phase 1 of the province’s COVID-19 relaunch on Monday, May 25.
  
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• Witness to fatal motorcycle crash on Macleod Trail sought by police

  22-05-2020 20:22
  
  Calgary police are continuing to investigate the circumstances of a fatal crash that took place Saturday afternoon and would like to speak to a certain driver who might know something about it. Police, along with firefighters and EMS, were called to the scene of a motorcycle crash in the northbound lanes of Macleod Trail near Spiller Road S.E. at about 3:50 p.m. When they arrived, they found a motorcycle rider had apparently lost control, struck the metal roadside barrier and crashed. The rider
  
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• High stream flow advisory issued for Elbow River within Calgary

  22-05-2020 19:51
  
  Thursday's rainfall has raised the water level in the Elbow River, prompting the City of Calgary to issue a warning The high stream flow advisory was issued Friday and Calgarians are being asked to exercise caution along riverbanks. "Where there's water, there's risk," said Calgary Fire Department Public Information Officer Carol Henke in a statement released Friday. "These elevated flow rates dramatically increase the risk to those who are in and around the Elbow River." The fast-moving water o
  
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• Dominion Diamond proposes transaction to exit CCAA status, reopen Ekati mine

  22-05-2020 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  According to court documents, Dominion had revenue from diamond sales of about US$528 million in 2019 and employed 634 people at Ekati before the pandemic.
  
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• Premier Jason Kenney to provide update on Phase 1 relaunch in Calgary and Brooks, Alta.

  22-05-2020 18:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  Premier Jason Kenney and Health Minister Tyler Shandro will host a news conference on Friday morning to update citizens on Stage 1 of Alberta’s Relaunch Strategy for Calgary and Brooks.
  
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• Calgary and Brooks get green light to move forward with Stage 1 of Alberta’s relaunch strategy

  22-05-2020 18:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  Calgary and Brooks have been given the green light by Premier Jason Kenney to continue with Stage 1 of Alberta's relaunch strategy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside the rest of the province.
  
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• Accused killer assessed by police, crisis team hours before tragedy: police

  22-05-2020 17:53
  
  The man accused of killing a seven-year-old girl hours after missing an appointment with a mental health professional is in court Friday morning. David Moss, 34, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Bella Desrosiers, who was fatally stabbed in her Mill Woods home Monday night. Earlier in the week, the girl's mother, Melissa Desrosiers, told CTV News Edmonton Moss was a family friend who had been mentally unwell. Edmonton Police Service confirmed her account Friday that police "we
  
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• Accused killer assessed by Edmonton police, crisis team hours before tragedy

  22-05-2020 17:53
  
  The man accused of killing a seven-year-old girl hours after being assessed by police and a crisis team will undergo a month-long mental health assessment, a court judge ordered Friday. David Moss is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Bella Desrosiers, who was fatally stabbed in her Mill Woods home Monday night. Lawyer Rod Gregory was in court on Friday to represent the 34-year-old and ask for the mental fitness assessment. Moss is currently at the Alberta Hospital where he will b
  
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• Traffic stop leads to drug arrests in Drumheller

  22-05-2020 16:23
  
  What started as a traffic stop in Drumheller escalated into two people being arrested after officers observed alleged drug paraphernalia in plain view inside a vehicle. Police pulled the vehicle over about 1:30 a.m. on May 13 and the driver and passenger were both arrested. A search of the vehicle resulted in the seizure of suspected drugs and other items, inlcuding:Methamphetamine Cocaine Fentanyl Cash Drug paraphernaliaElizabeth Joy McDuff, 20, and Michael Robert Kinney, 44, have both bee
  
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• How summer camps are changing during the pandemic

  22-05-2020 15:22
  
  Summer camps are a tradition for many kids but the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many camps to change their programming to help keep people safe. Many overnight and day camps are cancelled, leaving kids disappointed. Connor Cameron was supposed to visit Camp Yowocha at Lake Wabamun this summer, but the YWCA decided it needed to be cancelled. "I'm going to miss playing with friends and just meeting new people," Cameron said. But some camps are going digital to stay connected. Telus World of Scienc
  
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• Restaurants, pubs, hair salons and barbershops will reopen May 25 in Calgary and Brooks

  22-05-2020 15:09
  
  Restaurants, bars, pubs, cafes, hair salons and barbershops in Calgary and Brooks will be allowed to resume operating May 25 with limits on capacity, Premier Jason Kenney announced Friday. Bars, restaurants, pubs and cafes will be limited to 50 per cent capacity. This is a developing story and will update throughout the day. A previous version is below: Non-essential businesses in Calgary and Brooks will learn Friday whether they will be permitted to reopen their doors next week after Alberta's
  
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• Restaurants, pubs, hair salons and barbershops in Calgary and Brooks permitted to reopen May 25th

  22-05-2020 15:09
  
  Restaurants, bars, pubs, cafes, hair salons and barbershops in Calgary and Brooks will be allowed to resume operating May 25 with limits on capacity, Premier Jason Kenney announced Friday. Bars, restaurants, pubs and cafes will be limited to 50 per cent capacity. This is a developing story and will update throughout the day. A previous version is below: Non-essential businesses in Calgary and Brooks will learn Friday whether they will be permitted to reopen their doors next week after Alberta's
  
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• Business owners in Calgary and Brooks prepare again for possible reopening

  22-05-2020 15:09
  
  Non-essential businesses in Calgary and Brooks will learn Friday whether they will be permitted to reopen their doors next week after Alberta's first phase of relaunch was delayed in the two cities. The announcement comes more than a week after the province resumed dine-in service at restaurants and reopened hair salons and barber shops in all locations except the two cities with the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases. Higher Ground Cafe in Kensington was ready to relaunch for dine-in service las
  
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• Canadian retail sales dropped 10% in March

  22-05-2020 15:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  It was the largest monthly drop on record but April figures will likely be worse, Statistics Canada said.
  
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• COVID-19 in Brooks: How widespread testing, cultural support helped an Alberta city avert disaster

  22-05-2020 15:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  The novel coronavirus began spreading through the small Alberta city in mid-April, where health officials identified outbreaks in multiple locations, including the JBS plant. 
  
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• JBS meat packing plant in Brooks resumes full operations

  22-05-2020 14:41
  
  After reintroducing a second shift, a meat packing plant in the city of Brooks has resumed full operations despite the fact the facility is still considered by the province to be in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak. Norman Anover, a JBS employee, returned to work Thursday afternoon for his first shift in nearly a month.   "A little bit nervous because I don’t know inside if it is safe," said Anover. "But I know JBS providing all the measurements to prevent the spreading of COVID-19."
  
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• Group activities transform themselves for the pandemic age

  22-05-2020 14:19
  
  Remember group activities? It was a Thursday night in mid-January. Wuhan was an unfamiliar city of 11 million, in a distant province, on the other side of the world, in China. The windchill was -38. I was walking down Stephen Avenue at 10:30 p.m. past the Palace Theatre, when all these people started pouring out into the bitterly-cold streets. They looked like a post-concert crowd with a twist: a lot of them appeared to be older people, chatting away in the windchill, as if they always spent Thu
  
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• Passenger plane crashes into crowded neighbourhood on outskirts of Karachi

  22-05-2020 12:49
  
  A passenger plane with 98 people on board crashed in a crowded neighbourhood on the edge of the international airport near Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Friday after what appeared to be an engine failure during landing. Mayor Wasim Akhtar said at least five or six houses were destroyed in the crash of the domestic flight operated by Pakistan International Airlines. He said all those on board died, but two civil aviation officials later said that at least two people survived the crash. They
  
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• Pakistan airliner with 107 on board crashes near Karachi

  22-05-2020 12:49
  
  A passenger plane with 107 people on board crashed in a crowded neighbourhood on the edge of the international airport near Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Friday after what appeared to be an engine failure during landing. Mayor Wasim Akhtar said at least five or six houses were destroyed in the crash of the domestic flight operated by Pakistan International Airlines. He said all those on board died, but two civil aviation officials later said that at least two people survived the cr
  
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• 'This is not business as usual': You may start seeing a COVID-19 surcharge on your receipts

  22-05-2020 12:15
  
  As small businesses begin the arduous task of reopening amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, some have opted to tack on a COVID-19 surcharge to their receipts in an effort to recoup funds spent on new sanitation and physical distancing measures. The so-called "COVID fee" is designed to help cover the cost of personal protective equipment (PPE) for employees, increased sanitation measures, or income lost from reducing the number of customers a business is allowed to serve based on physical dist
  
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• PM Trudeau to update on COVID-19 measures after talking testing with premiers

  22-05-2020 11:49
  
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to speak to the latest COVID-19 measures and offer any updates on the status of the slate of financial aid measures, following last night’s call with the premiers that included a conversation on the need to ramp up testing and contact tracing nationwide. When he and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland held their tenth call with provincial and territorial leaders since the pandemic was declared, one of the central conversations was on how to increase
  
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• PM Trudeau says federal employees ready to contact trace 7 days a week

  22-05-2020 11:49
  
  Responding to the need to increase the capacity to trace any possible contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that the federal government is ready to make thousands of contact tracing calls a day, seven days a week. During his Friday morning address outlining the latest federal pandemic measures, Trudeau said that the federal government has trained federal employees who can make 3,600 contact tracing calls a day, and in addition, Statistics Canada has trained ano
  
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• PM Trudeau: Feds will soon 'strongly' recommend contact tracing app

  22-05-2020 11:49
  
  Responding to the need to increase the capacity to trace any possible contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government will soon be “strongly recommending” Canadians download a to-be-determined monitoring and exposure notification app. In the meantime federal employees are ready to make thousands of contact tracing calls a day, seven days a week. During his Friday morning address outlining the latest federal pandemic measures, Trudeau sa
  
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• Feds readying to recommend contact tracing app

  22-05-2020 11:49
  
  Responding to the need to increase the capacity to trace any possible contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government will soon be “strongly recommending” Canadians download a to-be-determined monitoring and exposure notification app. In the meantime federal employees are ready to make thousands of contact tracing calls a day, seven days a week. During his Friday morning address outlining the latest federal pandemic measures, Trudeau sa
  
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• Feds ready to make contact tracing calls 7 days a week

  22-05-2020 11:49
  
  Responding to the need to increase the capacity to trace any possible contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that federal employees are ready to make thousands of contact tracing calls a day, seven days a week. During his Friday morning address outlining the latest federal pandemic measures, Trudeau said that the federal government has trained federal employees who can make 3,600 contact tracing calls a day, and in addition, Statistics Canada has trained another
  
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• She witnessed the N.S. mass shooter’s violence. She’s still struggling to be heard

  22-05-2020 10:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Brenda Forbes says she felt dismissed when she spoke up about the gunman's violence and weapons cache.
  
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• Promising results for potential COVID-19 vaccine to be tested on Canadians

  22-05-2020 09:14
  
  An early trial of a prospective COVID-19 vaccine that will soon be tested on Canadians has found it to be safe and effective at prompting an immune response. A study published Friday in the Lancet says the formulation from China's CanSino Biologics Inc. needs more trials to determine whether it can actually protect against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But it says early trials involving 108 adults in Wuhan produced neutralizing antibodies and a response in T-cells, which protect th
  
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• Councillor Jeromy Farkas says he will support proposed Calgary bylaw banning conversion therapy

  22-05-2020 06:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Calgary city councillor became emotional on Thursday night while speaking about the upcoming vote on a bylaw that would ban conversion therapy.
  
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• NHLPA board voting on returning playoff format with 24 teams: sources

  22-05-2020 06:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Results of the vote could be in as soon as Friday night, as the league continues to navigate returning amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Malls reimagined: What the pandemic could mean for retail

  22-05-2020 05:44
  
  More closures across the retail sector have experts predicting a new future for the way we shop. The parent company of Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works announced Thursday that hundreds of locations in Canada and the U.S. are permanently closing. The announcement comes a day after the U.S. retail chain Pier 1 revealed it has gone out of business and is in the process of closing all 540 of its stores in the U.S. and Canada. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Footwear retailer
  
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