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Banana, duct tape add up to $150,000 at Art Basel Miami
MIAMI - 3D-printed cocktails, a traffic jam sculpture made of hundreds of tons of sand and more celebrity sightings than a Kardashian Christmas party were all part of over-the-top festivities during t...
Dec 10, 2019
GPFC's Aboriginal Head Start program earns provincial recognition
The Grande Prairie Friendship Centre's Aboriginal Head Start program has received provincial honours for their work.The program was named a recipient of one of the Minister's Awards of Excellence in C...
Dec 10, 2019 Program Coordinator for the Aboriginal Head Start program Joleen Bateman is presented with the Minister's Award of Excellence in Child Development at Government House on Monday (Photo: Joleen Bateman)
Toronto Raptors fans more grateful than hateful of Kawhi Leonard
TORONTO - Two nights after Paul George's hostile treatment in Indiana, it should be nothing but love for his teammate Kawhi Leonard in Toronto Leonard will be presented with his NBA champion...
Dec 10, 2019
Almost one-third of Peace Region crop still in the field
Almost one-third of the crop in the Peace Country will stay in the field all winter.Alberta Agriculture, in its last crop report of 2019, says the Peace has the most unharvested acres in Alberta as 67...
Dec 10, 2019 Photo by Oleg Zaikin, from www.dreamstime.com
Heavy gunfire reported in Jersey City neighbourhood
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Heavy gunfire was exchanged Tuesday for at least an hour in a Jersey City neighbourhood. SWAT teams responded to the scene, and police have blocked off the major thoroughfare. Loud...
Dec 10, 2019
Crews still battling fire from crude oil train derailment in central Saskatchewan
LANIGAN, Sask. - Saskatchewan's public safety agency says crews are working in frigid temperatures as they continue to battle a fire that started when a freight train carrying...
Dec 10, 2019
Tax cuts, flood fight and cost-control on Manitoba premier's agenda
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is promising a "bolder" approach in 2020 with his Progressive Conservative government now in its second term. Pallister says despite fears of a potentially ...
Dec 10, 2019
Brazil's Bolsonaro calls activist Greta Thunberg a "brat"
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday called young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg a "brat" after she expressed concern about the slayings of indigenous Brazilian...
Dec 10, 2019
Handke takes Nobel Literature Prize amid protest
STOCKHOLM - Author Peter Handke received his Nobel Literature Prize on Tuesday amid criticism of him in Sweden and abroad as an apologist for Serb war crimes in the 1990s. Handke accepted the 9-millio...
Dec 10, 2019
Mexican ex-security chief charged in US in drug conspiracy
NEW YORK - A man who served as secretary of public security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012 has been indicted in New York City on drug charges alleging he accepted millions of dollars in bribes to let the...
Dec 10, 2019