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Neha Bhasin: The lockdown has made me realise how privileged we are; I have seen the state of people in the streets and it’s not pretty

"So there are days when I feel down and out, but I remember the gratitude bit in the back of my head (sic)."



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How Do American Indians Celebrate Mother’s Day? | Smithsonian Voices | National Museum of the American Indian – Smithsonian.com

How Do American Indians Celebrate Mother's Day? | Smithsonian Voices | National Museum of the American Indian  Smithsonian.com



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Made in India: How Covid-19 is changing the luxe living room – The Hindu

Made in India: How Covid-19 is changing the luxe living room  The Hindu



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India’s lavish weddings go online in virus lockdown – South China Morning Post

India's lavish weddings go online in virus lockdown  South China Morning Post



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MLS to allow voluntary individual player workouts under strict guidelines

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



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Retired goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc 'stronger' following separation from newborn daughter

Karina LeBlanc was returning home from her second hospital visit after giving birth to her first child, only this time she would have to spend 14 days in self-isolation after doctors feared she contracted COVID-19 during her stay.





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Data gaps exist on COVID-19 cases in Indigenous communities, says research fellow

The number of cases of COVID-19 in First Nations reserves continues to rise this week, with 161 confirmed positive cases reported as of May 5.




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Q & A: Why you may feel physical distancing fatigue, and how to fight it

City of Kitchener bylaw enforcement says cooperation with physical distancing rules is weather-dependent, with more people getting out and about on sunny days. Wilfrid Laurier University professor Anne Wilson tells CBC Kitchener-Waterloo why some may be tempted to bend the rules as time goes by.



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What you need to know about COVID-19 in Waterloo region on May 7

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



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CFL asks federal government for $150 million to help cope with shutdown

The Canadian Football League is asking the federal government for up to $150 million in financial assistance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.



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Saskatchewan's Phase 2 plan updated to allow shopping malls to open, stores can accept returns

The NDP wants the Saskatchewan government to delay Phase 2 of its reopening plan, currently scheduled for May 19.



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Food truck owner adapts to COVID-19 by selling meal kits from driveway

Even though this year's food truck season is looking dicey, Tyler Schmidt says he's doing his best to find business where he can.



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Patriots trade Rob Gronkowski to Brady's Buccaneers as TE ends retirement

Four-time All Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski has agreed to a reunion with Tom Brady. The trade, finalized Tuesday night, brings Gronkowski and a seventh-round pick to Tampa Bay in exchange for a fourth-round selection.



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Brad Treliving, fellow NHL GMs hope to learn from remote NFL draft

Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving will watch Thursday's remote NFL draft and is planning to focus on how his football counterparts deal with the realities of their world during the COVID-19 pandemic.



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Bengals tap Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow as 1st pick of 2020 NFL Draft

In this most unique of drafts, filled with technological concerns and even uncertainty when real football might return, there was one constant Thursday night: Joe Burrow.



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49ers acquire Pro Bowl LT Trent Williams among multiple NFL Draft Day trades

The San Francisco 49ers acquired one Pro Bowl left tackle and said goodbye to another as they traded for LT Trent Williams.



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Cowboys sign QB Andy Dalton to 1-year, $7M deal

Andy Dalton is coming home to Texas as Dak Prescott's backup with the Dallas Cowboys.



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What you need to know about COVID-19 in B.C. on May 8, 2020

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.



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What you need to know about COVID-19 in B.C. on May 9, 2020

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



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5 charts that show how COVID-19 has changed Metro Vancouver

There's no question that COVID-19 has uprooted the lives of people across Metro Vancouver and around the world. Data can be one way to show how, exactly, the pandemic has changed the way we move and operate in our daily lives.  



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Lonely, bored, and anxious: One senior's life inside a locked-down retirement home

Visits to long-term care homes and some retirement homes across B.C. have been restricted due to the COVID-19 pandemic — and one senior says life inside is very challenging.



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Italian photographers showcase 'top model' chickens in new coffee table book

Matteo Tranchellini and Moreno Monti created a coffee table book called CHICken to showcase the natural beauty of the ubiquitous birds.



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P.E.I. grandmother keeps snowball in her freezer for more than a decade

It's not often people want to hang onto winter, but a Summerside, P.E.I. woman has kept a piece of it in her freezer for over a decade: a snowball in a ziplock bag.



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How a $5 roadside tortoise turned into a Halifax icon

Gus has been captivating visitors to the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History for more than seven decades.



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How a package to 'a farm situated up a long drive with cows' got to its destination

A New Zealand mail carrier made it her mission to deliver a package that was vaguely addressed to "Phil and Kay," located "opposite Cust pub or thereabouts."



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Newfoundlander finds homegrown solution for BBQ brush health hazard

Jason Janes didn't want a BBQ brush bristle stuck in his throat, so he came up with his own homegrown scraper that has led to a business on the verge of booming.



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Mint's newest coin showcases famous Falcon Lake UFO encounter in Manitoba

The Royal Canadian Mint's newest offering features Manitoba's most famous UFO encounter, which happened in 1967 when Stefan Michalak went looking for precious metals near Falcon Lake.



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Hundreds of 'perfectly good boots' trashed at Yellowknife dump, people snatch them up

Where are they from? Why are they there? Crates full of steel-toe boots showed up at the Yellowknife dump last week. Now they're almost gone.



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For Trump, Lying Is a Super Power

He will use deception to keep his bungled response to Covid-19 from ruining his re-election chances.




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Trump’s Dow-at-30,000 Dream Hurt America

Trump is Mark Twain’s king, the great American con man.




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Who Knows Where the Time Goes

We are all in a box, and in those boxes we are grieving.




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Woman at centre of deadly drugstore stabbing could be allowed to live in community: review board

A woman found not criminally responsible for fatally stabbing a stranger in the heart at the makeup counter of a Toronto drugstore five years ago could ultimately be allowed to live in the community if the mental health facility where she is staying decides she can, the Ontario Review Board says.



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Ontario has now lost more than 1 million jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic

Approximately one out of every seven Ontarians who were working before the coronavirus pandemic hit the province have now lost their jobs, according to Statistics Canada's latest national labour survey.



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Snowbirds scrap Saturday flyover in southern Ontario due to weather

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



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Ontario allows school staff to work in hospitals as province confirms 346 new COVID-19 cases

Ontario reported its lowest new COVID-19 case count of the week on Saturday with 346 new confirmed cases of the virus. Meanwhile, the government has issued an emergency order allowing school board employees to be voluntarily redeployed to hospitals, long-term care homes, retirement homes and women's shelters.



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Frost, record-breaking low temperatures expected for Windsor-Essex Friday night

If you think it's cold this morning, just wait — the forecast low for Friday night is –3 C.



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Windsor man dies following Lakeshore collision, say OPP

OPP are investigating a fatal crash that took place in Lakeshore Thursday night.



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OPP officer punished after delays allow driver to evade prosecution in fatal Kingsville crash

An Essex County OPP officer has been slapped with a cut in pay because of "inexplicable" investigative delays into a fatal collision, allowing the at-fault driver to "evade criminal prosecution."



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Train kills 14 labourers laid off in coronavirus lockdown in India

A train killed 14 migrant workers who had fallen asleep on the track in India on Friday while they were heading back to their home village after losing their jobs amid the coronavirus lockdown, police said.




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Cardinal tries to disavow petition that raises conspiracies about coronavirus lockdowns

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.




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Putin presides over slimmed down Victory Day as coronavirus cases rise

Russia marked 75 years since the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War on Saturday, but the coronavirus outbreak forced it to scale back celebrations seen as boosting support for President Vladimir Putin.




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Couple shaves their eyebrows as motivation to stay home during COVID-19 pandemic

Justin Young and Justine Manuel in Kamloops, B.C., shaved off their eyebrows as extra incentive to stay home and avoid socializing.




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Volunteers vow to 'sew the curve' by making fabric masks

A group of volunteers in B.C.'s Interior have started making fabric masks to assist in response against COVID-19.



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How some B.C. municipalities are handling the financial impacts of COVID-19

Municipalities across the province are re-evaluating their financial situations as COVID-19 continues to keep municipal facilities closed and has put other revenue streams on hold. 



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Eyebrow-shaving couple takes on another isolation trend: at-home haircuts

A B.C. couple who shaved their eyebrows off in the spirit of forcing themselves to stay at home has tackled another isolation challenge — home haircuts. 



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What you need to know about COVID-19 in Alberta on Friday, May 8

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



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Another quarter-million Albertans lost work in April as COVID-19 shutdown grips province

Nearly a quarter-million more Albertans lost work in April as the economic shutdown due to COVID-19 continued, with young workers — particularly young women — being disproportionately affected.



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What you need to know about COVID-19 in Alberta on Saturday, May 9

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.



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