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Alberta Derby set for Sunday afternoon at Evergreen Park
The best horses in the province will embark on Grande Prairie this afternoon for the annual Alberta Derby.The derby is one of the hardest races to get into in Alberta as explained by Evergreen Park's ...
Jul 28, 2019 (photo credit to Evergreen Park)
Venezuelan Cruz-Diez, pioneer in kinetic art, dies in Paris
CARACAS, Venezuela - Carlos Cruz-Diez, a leading Venezuelan artist and a pioneering figure in the style known as kinetic art, has died in Paris at age 95. Cruz-Diez's official website said Sunday the ...
Jul 28, 2019
AP Interview: Indonesia's Widodo to push unpopular reforms
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said in an interview Friday that he will push ahead with sweeping and potentially unpopular economic reforms, including a more business-friendly l...
Jul 28, 2019
'Yes the bridges are cut': Kanesatake Grand Chief refuses talks with Oka mayor
MONTREAL - A war of words between a First Nations grand chief and a small-town Quebec mayor instigated hours of meetings Friday with federal and provincial officials, but the underlying conflict ...
Jul 28, 2019
Lights 2-0 at Provincials
The Northern Light U18 AAA baseball team is at provincials in Fort McMurray and celebrated another win Saturday. They beat the Calgary Dinos 6-2 to improve to 2-0 at the championships. Pitchers for th...
Jul 28, 2019 (Photo: Facebook/Northern Lights Baseball Academy)
Supreme Court of Canada says military's no-juries justice system constitutional
OTTAWA - Military members accused of serious offences under military law do not have a constitutional right to jury trials, the Supreme Court ruled Friday. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms guar...
Jul 28, 2019
Swedish court documents give details on A$AP Rocky case
HELSINKI - Swedish authorities have released court documents in the assault case in which American rapper A$AP Rocky and two other men are charged, with prosecutors saying that the victim was punched ...
Jul 28, 2019
Cosby appeal to focus on other women's testimony, Quaaludes
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Prosecutors set to defend Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction in appeals court next month say the accusations from other women are no coincidence, but "the culmination of a decade...
Jul 28, 2019
Seniors killed in fatal car crash in southern Alberta
COALDALE, Alta. - The RCMP say a couple in their 80's are dead after their vehicle collided with a tractor trailer in southern Alberta.The crash happened Saturday evening near Coaldale, Alta., just ea...
Jul 28, 2019
Cardinal Ortega, former archbishop of Havana, dies at 82
HAVANA - Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, a sugar worker's son who oversaw the first papal visit to Cuba, helped lower barriers to believers in the communist country and played a role in mediati...
Jul 28, 2019