The Korean baseball league opens its delayed season Tuesday in empty stadiums across South Korea and Canada's Jamie Romak, along with the rest of the league's players, are getting used to a new baseball normal that includes rules against high fives and spitting, daily temperature checks and the absence of fans.

Everyone is rooting for Korean baseball to succeed right now because, if it fails, we're left with a pretty dark thought: If they can't pull this off, what hope do we have?

The Cleveland Indians held a video conference with players and other team officials to lay out the provisional plan for returning to organized workouts with designs on being ready for a potential 2020 opening day of July 1, according to The Athletic.

Hope you didn't pack away those winter boots yet: southwestern Manitoba, from Riding Mountain south to the Canada-U.S. border, is expected to get heavy rain and snow Friday night.

We can expect to see more seasonable temperatures by next weekend, says a meteorologist from Environment Canada.

A reignited fire at the Bluefin Restaurant in Souris, P.E.I. has been extinguished says Souris Chief Colin LaVie.

RCMP in Souris, P.E.I., say an incident that shut down the community from 6 p.m. Friday until close to midnight ended with one man in custody and no injuries.

Former Gov. Rick Snyder says news coverage about search warrants being used to get his state-issued cellphone and computer from government storage in the Flint water investigation is "very sloppy and misleading."

Gold and silver prices often move in tandem, but the gap between them widened by 31% January through April in line with a trend that began nine years ago.

Mayor Bryan Paterson is urging the province to take second look at a request to give regions like his more autonomy in how they handle the presence — or absence — of COVID-19 in their communities.

CBC Ottawa's latest roundup of key points during the coronavirus pandemic.

Figure skater Michael Marinaro gets emotional as he talks about his grandmother who passed away from COVID-19. Marinaro and his partner Kirsten Moore-Towers joined fellow Canadian Kaitlyn Weaver who was hosting a livestream with figure skating legends to raise money for the UN Foundation's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

The following is a guest post from Processing Technician Pam Murrell. In addition to being an adroit cellist, bassist, and pianist, Charles Mingus was also an accomplished composer. During his lifetime he wrote over three hundred scores, creating his first concert piece, “Half-Mast Inhibition,” at the age of seventeen. Ultimately, he aspired to be a […]

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Major League Soccer is easing its training restrictions, allowing clubs to use their practice fields but only for individual workouts and under strict rules.

What do we make of a difficult economic situation new to everyone? CME Group's Chief Economist addressed these and other questions around the economics of the pandemic.

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"This video footage clearly shows why La Loche Saskatchewan won't be opening up so soon," says Rita Briggs.

More than a dozen First Nations in northeastern Ontario have closed their borders to outsiders during the pandemic. It's creating some friction, but in the long-run could help to better define what Indigenous self-government really means. 

Manitoba health officials have an agreement with First Nations leaders to track and share COVID-19 data, but the public may never know specifics of what the unique agreement yields.

Mathias Colomb Cree Nation is wondering why the federal government ignored their community's proposal for an emergency COVID-19 response space in favour of a Calgary company's. 

More than 400 people have recovered from COVID-19 in Waterloo region, new numbers released by Region of Waterloo Public Health Thursday morning showed.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is in discussions with the CFL, which is seeking financial support to help with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Watch a recording of the physically distant performance of The Gay Card.

Saskatchewan's unemployment rate soared in April due to the COVID-19 economic shutdown but an economist says it's not likely to get much worse.

Green Lake’s mayor says he wants to see further measures introduced to prevent people who aren't from Saskatchewan from travelling through his community as the region deals with the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Officials with the Saskatchewan Health Authority have said people are still gathering and drinking together which has contributed to the spread of the virus.

B.C.'s unemployment rate grew by over four points in the month of April due to COVID-19, rising to 11.5 per cent.

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry will give her daily briefing at noon.

It turns out a small black box with a dangling red wire and little blue light investigated by Windsor's bomb squad Tuesday isn't actually dangerous — at least to the living.

As a child, Fay Richardson wanted to dance, with the grace and movement of ballet captivating her. Now, at 79-years-old, she's doing just that.

Five members of Calgary city council use a name in their political life that doesn't always line up with their birth certificate.

We are connected to one another and to generations past and future.

Friends Derek and Josiah, who grew up in OM, talk about their most recent adventure: one year producing videos in the Middle East and North Africa.

Throughout the year Bus4Life provides encouragement to local pastors and OM teams in Eastern Europe, partnering with them to share the Gospel.

Despite sharp differences in the impact of COVID-19 in different parts of Ontario, the Ford government is rejecting a region-by-region approach to loosening emergency restrictions.

Poor visibility from winter-like weather has put a halt on the Snowbirds aerobatics team's plans to fly over southern Ontario on Saturday.

Every few days for the past two weeks, Windsor resident Joseph Antone has loaded up his red pick-up truck with food, water, fruit and other essential supplies for people who need it most.

Late Thursday, Georgia father and son Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael were arrested in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man.

Cardinal Robert Sarah, head of the Vatican's liturgy office, claims he never signed a petition claiming the coronavirus is an over-hyped "pretext" to deprive the faithful of Mass.

Mary Ellen Dalgleish, a poultry expert at Purity Feeds in Kamloops, B.C., believes the increased interest in backyard chickens follows concerns about food security when consumers saw grocery store shelves cleared out early in the COVID-19 pandemic in B.C.

With the effects of the pandemic playing out differently across the province, it's unlikely that all areas will reopen on the same timeline.

Sarah Miller waited until the last minute to go buy toilet paper. When she couldn’t find any, she made a decision that she says changed her life.

An inmate at the Calgary Remand Centre has tested positive for COVID-19, marking the first time a case has been reported at an Alberta correctional facility.

Former Montreal Canadiens enforcer Georges Laraque's biggest challenge is trying to breathe clearly as he fights COVID-19 at a Montreal hospital. "The nights are the worst. I have fevers a couple times a night. I have to get up and take pills."

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the Toronto Maple Leafs' parent company has been in contact with the province about the possibility of Canada's biggest city serving as a so-called "hockey pod" for teams should the NHL resume its season.

Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price has reached out to give support to two boys who lost their parents during the Nova Scotia mass shooting last month.

Will he, given his obsession with the economy?

He’s a nominee in perpetual waiting.