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Fox Creek RCMP reminding public to stay off airport airstrip
Fox Creek RCMP are reminding the public to stay off the airstrip at the Fox Creek Airport, after they were informed of someone running with their dog on it last week.Police were notified of the indivi...
Jun 14, 2021

Canadian Michael Woods to lead Israel Start-Up Nation team at the Tour de France
Canadian rider Michael Woods will lead the Israel Start-Up Nation team at the Tour de France. "His success in the (Ardennes) Classics, the Tour de Romandie and the Tour de Suisse gave him - and us - t...
Jun 14, 2021

Conservative MP Tim Uppal sorry for role in 'divisiveness' of Harper-era policies
OTTAWA - A former Conservative cabinet minister is apologizing for not pushing against his party's culturally divisive polices of the Stephen Harper era, including an effort to ban face coverings duri...
Jun 14, 2021

Liberal cabinet ministers criticize senior military officers who golfed with Vance
OTTAWA - Liberal cabinet ministers are expressing their dismay after senior military officers recently joined former defence chief Jonathan Vance for a game of golf in Ottawa. Deputy Prime Minister Ch...
Jun 14, 2021

Alberta to share details for COVID vaccine lottery
Premier Jason Kenney says Alberta's vaccine lottery is a creative way to encourage Albertans who haven't yet been vaccinated to take the plunge.Three prizes of $1 million will be awarded."Starting tod...
Jun 14, 2021

Canada to receive 9.5M vaccine doses this week thanks to influx of Moderna shots
OTTAWA - Canada is poised to receive around 9.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses this week thanks to a massive infusion of shots from Moderna. The federal government says the Massachusetts-based pharmac...
Jun 14, 2021

Terror charges laid against man accused in London attack against Muslim family
LONDON, Ont. - Prosecutors say the attack against a Muslim family in southwestern Ontario that left four dead and one injured was an act of terrorism.Twenty-year-old Nathaniel Veltman had been charged...
Jun 14, 2021

NATO leaders declare China a global security challenge
BRUSSELS (AP) - NATO leaders on Monday declared that China poses a constant security challenge and is working to undermine global order, and they said they're worried about how fast the Chinese are de...
Jun 14, 2021

Canada looks to finish job against Haiti, move into final World Cup qualifying round
Defender Alistair Johnston knows his Canadian World Cup qualifying history - and what dispatching Haiti on Tuesday would mean. The 70th-ranked Canadian men can move into the so-called Octagonal, the e...
Jun 14, 2021

As US COVID-19 death toll nears 600,000, racial gaps persist
Jerry Ramos spent his final days in a California hospital, hooked to an oxygen machine with blood clots in his lungs from COVID-19, his 3-year-old daughter in his thoughts. "I have to be here to watch...
Jun 14, 2021