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Right whale gives birth to first calf off the coast of Georgia: Oceana
HALIFAX - An international conservation group has announced the birth of the first North Atlantic right whale calf of the 2019-2020 calving season. Oceana says the calf was born Monday off the co...
Dec 18, 2019
Statistics Canada says annual pace of inflation climbs to 2.2 per cent
OTTAWA - The annual pace of inflation heated up in November as gasoline prices posted their first year-over-year increase since October 2018, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. The agency said the...
Dec 18, 2019
Wilkinson ‘wrestling’ with how oilsands mine would fit into climate commitments
CALGARY - The federal environment minister says he's spoken with his Alberta counterpart about how Canada's climate commitments could weigh into his decision about a large proposed oilsands mine.Alber...
Dec 18, 2019
‘You can call anything a national concern:’ Alberta questions federal carbon tax
EDMONTON - Allowing Ottawa's carbon tax law to stand would give the federal government a tool it could use to repeatedly chip away at provincial powers, lawyers for the Alberta government argued Monda...
Dec 18, 2019
Private investigation into Sherman deaths over, but police probe continues: cops
Toronto police say a private investigation into the slayings of billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife Honey is over, but the force's own probe continues. Insp. Hank Idsinga, the head o...
Dec 18, 2019
Stay off unsafe storm ponds this winter: City
City Hall is again reminding Grande Prairie residents that storm ponds are not to be used for recreation.The City's Transportation and Parks Manager Robert Carroll says this is because of safety conce...
Dec 18, 2019 Skating and other recreational activities are not safe to do on storm ponds around the City
Northern Air to discontinue its Edmonton-Peace River flights
Northern Air is cancelling its scheduled flights between Edmonton and Peace River, effective January 1, 2020.The loss of the only scheduled air service at the Peace River Airport means they will no lo...
Dec 18, 2019
GOP Sen. Collins of Maine launches reelection bid
PORTLAND, Maine - U.S. Sen. Susan Collins officially launched her bid for a reelection Wednesday, setting up an expensive and closely watched battle for the seat the moderate Republican from Maine has...
Dec 18, 2019
Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot sign deal for 50-50 merger
MILAN - The boards of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Peugeot on Wednesday signed a binding merger deal creating the world's fourth-largest automaker with the scale to confront the challenges of str...
Dec 18, 2019
India rejects final death sentence appeal in 2012 gang rape
NEW DELHI - India's Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the final appeal of one of the four men sentenced to death for the 2012 fatal gang rape of a woman on a moving bus in New Delhi, paving the way ...
Dec 18, 2019