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A$AP Rocky to perform in Stockholm months after conviction
STOCKHOLM - A$AP Rocky is back in Sweden. The American rapper is set to perform in Stockholm, where he was convicted of assault in August for a street brawl. The artist, whose real name is Rakim Mayer...
Dec 11, 2019
Sylvan Lake woman accused of taking over $500,000 from employer
A Sylvan Lake woman stands accused of stealing more than $500,000 from her employer.Laurie May Watts, 55, has been charged with theft over $5,000, use of credit card data, forge a document and utterin...
Dec 11, 2019
Alberta eyes more operating rooms, contracts with private clinics for surgeries
CALGARY - Alberta's health minister is aiming to make the province a national leader on meeting wait-time targets by building more operating rooms and using more private clinics.Tyler Shandro says the...
Dec 11, 2019 Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro (right) announces the Alberta Surgical Wait Times Initiative at the Southern Alberta Eye Center, with Dr. Geoff Williams (left), Dr. Amin Kherani and eye patient Stan Grad (seated).
Audit of Calgary school board going ahead regardless of averted layoffs
CALGARY - The Alberta government is moving ahead with a financial audit and governance review of the Calgary Board of Education even though it appears hundreds of teacher layoffs can be averted.A spok...
Dec 11, 2019
Kenney and Trudeau meeting described as "frank" and "realistic"
OTTAWA - A frank and realistic discussion is how both Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the federal Liberal government are describing a meeting Tuesday between Kenney and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau....
Dec 11, 2019
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time 'person of the year'
NEW YORK - Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time's youngest "person of the year" on Wednesday. Thunberg, 16, has become the face of the youth climate movement, drawing large c...
Dec 11, 2019
Oink oink, cha-ching: $3 million found in barrels of pork
SHELBY, N.C. - Barrels of raw pork shoulder were riding fat in a tractor trailer pulled over by North Carolina deputies. Approximately $3 million in cash was recovered from the barrels Saturday, the C...
Dec 11, 2019
Thunberg accuses leaders of 'creative PR' at climate talks
MADRID - Activist Greta Thunberg accused the business and political leaders of misleading the public by holding climate talks that are not achieving real action against what she called the world's "cl...
Dec 11, 2019
Too much of a Greta thing? Activist urges focus on others
MADRID - With dozens of cameras pointing at her across a room full of reporters, celebrity teen environmentalist Greta Thunberg had an unexpected message: Look the other way. "Our stories have been to...
Dec 11, 2019
Sarajevo officials: Nobel winner Handke not welcome in city
SARAJEVO, Bosnia - Nobel Literature Prize laureate Peter Handke was on Wednesday proclaimed persona non grata in the Bosnian capital for his apologist views toward Serb war crimes during the war in th...
Dec 11, 2019