Thinking of picking up gardening during the COVID-19 pandemic, but don’t want to make a trip to the greenhouse? With a little water and kitchen scraps, you can regrow many of your favourite vegetables at home. Horticulturist and former greenhouse owner Jim Hole explained how to do it on CBC’s Radio Active on Friday. This…

A film company in Fort McMurray says it will produce its annual music video featuring cosplayers despite the cancellation of the hugely popular Calgary Expo.  Every year the group, known as M’Guphynn Media, travels to the expos in Edmonton and Calgary to shoot a music video featuring cosplayers — people who dress up as characters from books, movies, video games or…

Watching news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic from his home in Los Angeles, Jens Lindemann, who was raised in Alberta, says he was struck by stories from the front lines. “All the news just pointed to how much stress there was in their lives as they [dealt] with not just [COVID-19] patients, but then coming…

As part of his announcement this week about restoring the Saskatchewan economy and loosening restrictions on the public, Premier Scott Moe described the plan as a way to “gradually, cautiously and methodically reopen businesses.” Saskatchewan and New Brunswick will be the first provinces to relax the rules from the COVID-19 shutdown. With the number of infected people relatively low, there…

[unable to retrieve full-text content] The latest COVID-19 update from the province shows there’s been another spike in positive cases in Alberta over the past 24 hours. Source link…

Canada’s top doctor says there isn’t enough evidence to back herd immunity as a way to reopen society, as Quebec’s premier is considering the approach to restart his province’s economy. “The idea of … generating natural immunity is actually not something that should be undertaken,” Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam said Saturday, urging people…