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CP NewsAlert: Toronto Argonauts fire general manager Jim Popp
TORONTO - The Toronto Argonauts have fired general manager Jim Popp. A source confirmed the move to The Canadian Press. The source was granted anonymity because the decision will not be announced unti...
Oct 08, 2019
Felix Auger-Aliassime, Vasek Pospisil win at Shanghai Masters
SHANGHAI - Canadians improved to 4-0 at the Shanghai Masters after wins by Felix Auger-Aliassime and Vasek Pospisil on Tuesday. Vancouver's Pospisil won his second match in as many days and just his t...
Oct 08, 2019
CIBC Run for the Cure raises nearly $55,000 for breast cancer research
The 2019 CIBC Run for the Cure saw a great turnout, and raised a lot of money here in Grande Prairie.Volunteer Run Director, Janice Lovejoy, says it was amazing to see the amount of participants who l...
Oct 08, 2019 Runners flocked to Muskoseepi Park on Sunday in support of breast cancer research (Photo: Facebook / Q99)
South Park, games company swept up in China censorship fury
TV show South Park and a major video game studio are the latest businesses to get swept into a controversy over how to handle China's censorship efforts. Video games maker Activision Blizzard said Tue...
Oct 08, 2019
Edmonton van attacker confessed in prison: undercover RCMP officer
An undercover RCMP officer says a man accused of stabbing a constable and striking four pedestrians with a cube van in Edmonton two years ago detailed the attack while in a holding cell the next morni...
Oct 08, 2019
RDC, students preparing for possible lifting of tuition freeze
Alberta post-secondary students are bracing for a possible lifting of the current tuition freeze when the provincial budget is handed down on Oct. 24.The MacKinnon Report on Alberta's Finances release...
Oct 08, 2019
Ginger Baker, Cream's volatile drummer, dies at 80
LONDON - Ginger Baker, the volatile and propulsive drummer for Cream and other bands who wielded blues power and jazz finesse and helped shatter boundaries of time, tempo and style in popular music, d...
Oct 08, 2019
October marks Child Abuse Prevention Month
Grande Prairie's Caribou Child and Youth Centre is joining similar organizations across Alberta in marking Child Abuse Prevention Month in October.Last year, the Centre worked with 177 kids and non-of...
Oct 08, 2019 Photo from www.dreamstime.com
Canadian born James Peebles wins Nobel prize in physics this year
STOCKHOLM - Canadian born scientist James Peebles is one of three people who have won the Nobel Prize in Physics this year. He won the award "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology." P...
Oct 08, 2019
Hassan Diab wages court battle for Canadian citizenship certificate
OTTAWA - Sociology professor Hassan Diab, who spent a decade fighting allegations of terrorism, is now battling in court for a copy of his Canadian citizenship certificate. The 65-year-old O...
Oct 08, 2019