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Volunteers desperately needed for Salvation Army Christmas Kettle campaign
The Salvation Army in Grande Prairie is calling for volunteers to help with the annual Christmas Kettle campaign.The not-for-profit is using the fundraiser to support programs and services operated in...
Dec 5, 2019 Betty Steel (L) and Gerrie Schubert (R) volunteering at the Christmas Kettle at the Co-Op
Consensus comes 30 years later that Montreal massacre was an anti-feminist act
MONTREAL - Thirty years after the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, official acknowledgment has come that what happened on Dec. 6, 1989 at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique was an attack on f...
Dec 5, 2019
Snowbirds aerobatics team returns to full operations after crash in U.S.
OTTAWA - The Canadian military's Snowbirds aerobatics team is returning to full operations after a crash grounded the planes in the U.S. for more than a month. Military investigators are still trying ...
Dec 5, 2019
Storm look to continue building momentum against Czech Republic
Following a weekend sweep of one of the top teams in the AJHL, the Spruce Grove Saints. The Grande Prairie Storm will look to continue to build momentum as they play a quick exhibition match against t...
Dec 5, 2019 Storm playing the Spruce Grove Saints.
BC Peace cowboy competing at NFR
A Peace Region cowboy will be among those competing when the National Finals Rodeo starts Thursday night in Las Vegas.Hudson's Hope saddle bronc rider Jake Watson goes into the NFR eighth in the Profe...
Dec 5, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith
Manitoba NDP seek honorary premier title for Louis Riel
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Opposition wants to give the title of honorary first premier to Metis leader Louis Riel. NDP Leader Wab Kinew has put forward a private member's bill that would bestow ...
Dec 5, 2019
Chinese ambassador warns Canada against adopting motion calling for sanctions
MONTREAL - China's ambassador to Canada is threatening what he called "very firm countermeasures" should Parliament adopt a motion calling for sanctions against Chinese leaders. Ambassador P...
Dec 5, 2019
Cale Makar making early run at Calder Trophy: 'I haven't seen anybody like him'
TORONTO - It was pointed out to Cale Makar back in September he didn't seem at all daunted by sky-high expectations. The defenceman had announced his arrival in the NHL some five months...
Dec 5, 2019
From seals to belugas, scientists describe worrying signs for Arctic 'sentinels'
HALIFAX - Scientists attending a national gathering of Arctic researchers are outlining a widening range of climate change risks for so-called "sentinel" species, such as ringed seals a...
Dec 5, 2019
Saudi Aramco plans $25.6B share sale in biggest ever IPO
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Aramco on Thursday set a share price for its IPO - expected to be the biggest ever - that puts the value of the company at $1.7 tri...
Dec 5, 2019