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International group takes pass on monitoring election due to limited resources
OTTAWA - An international body that specializes in monitoring elections is skipping this year's Canadian election due to limited resources despite questions and potential concerns about the role of th...
Sep 20, 2019
International group takes pass on monitoring election due to limited resources
OTTAWA - An international body that specializes in monitoring elections is skipping this year's Canadian election due to limited resources despite questions and potential concerns about the role of th...
Sep 20, 2019
Wet weather continues to interrupt harvest
The latest crop report from Alberta Agriculture says farmers in the Peace have been able to do some swathing over the past week, but not much combining because of continued wet conditions. In the repo...
Sep 20, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith
'Ronnie's Cupboard' hopes to feed those in need
Three ladies from the Farmers' Market have started to collect food that will be available to people who are living on the streets and are often going without anything to eat. Darice Rach, one of the w...
Sep 20, 2019 Ronnie's Cupboard is set up outside the Farmers' Market (Photo by Sheena Roszell)
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh highlights pledge for universal drug coverage
ESSEX, Ont. - All Canadians should have access to medication that they need, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Friday, while expounding broader themes of inequality in light of Justin Trudeau's blackface ...
Sep 20, 2019
Oil price drops for 2nd day despite heightened Gulf tensions
NEW YORK - Oil prices retreated for a second day Wednesday even as the Saudi military blamed Iran for recent attacks to critical oil infrastructure and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the s...
Sep 20, 2019
Missing man found dead
Grande Cache RCMP have confirmed that a young man missing since January has been found dead.Police say the body of Tommy Harrington was found Sunday near where he disappeared January 5.He was on his w...
Sep 20, 2019
A divided Fed reduces rates but may not cut again this year
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate Wednesday for a second time this year but declined to signal that further rate cuts are likely this year. The Fed's move ...
Sep 20, 2019
Ontario Liberal caucus will soon drop to five as Lalonde wins federal nomination
OTTAWA - Ontario's provincial Liberals have lost another legislator after one of their members won the nomination to run for an Ottawa seat in next month's federal election. Marie-France Lalonde ...
Sep 20, 2019
Ontario Liberal leadership candidates weigh in on Trudeau blackface scandal
TORONTO - The majority of the candidates to become the next Ontario Liberal leader say they are glad Justin Trudeau has apologized for wearing blackface. Mitzie Hunter and Michael Coteau, who are blac...
Sep 20, 2019