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The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an enormous demand for security guards, whose job descriptions have been expanded to include temperature checks, grocery store crowd control and - in at least one cas...

MONTREAL - A couple of weeks ago, former Montreal Canadiens tough guy Georges Laraque was running five or six days a week as he trained for a marathon. Now, the former NHL enforcer...

OTTAWA - It was a sunny March 18 when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presented the government’s first big attempt at containing the economic fallout from COVID-19 in the form of an $82-billion re...

Vancouver Canucks general manager Jim Benning and his NHL counterparts usually have the luxury of a picture that's mostly come into focus. A normal draft year will see scouts and execut...

OTTAWA - A few months before the novel coronavirus arrived in Canada, the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation at Loon Lake, Sask. was already raising the alarm over suicides in the community, about 360 kil...

People in Beauval are doing their best to keep spirits high after the Saskatchewan Health Authority declared a COVID-19 outbreak in the northern village on Friday. Mayor Nick Daigneault said the stres...

Saskatchewan reported six new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday afternoon, bringing the province's total to 421. Of the new cases, four were found in the North region, with two each in the Lloyd...

Saskatchewan reported six new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday afternoon, bringing the province’s total to 421. Of the new cases, four were found in the North region, with two each in the...

The owner of a Regina gun store is wondering what to do with a bulk of his inventory, now that the federal government has banned what it considers "assault-style" firearms. Darryl Schemenauer runs TnT...

Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Here is what some of the provinces have announced so far: Newfoundland and Labrador ...