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Tory changes to assessment bill favour industry over environment, Liberals say
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals say they are reviewing the changes the Senate has made to their environmental-assessment legislation but accuse the Conservatives of bowing to pressure fro...
Jun 09, 2019
Kirk Jumps into Aggregate Lead After Three Days in Saskatoon
A second place finish on Saturday night has moved Kirk Sutherland into the aggregate lead after three days of WPCA racing in Saskatoon. The Grande Prairie driver finished 6-100ths of a second behind d...
Jun 09, 2019 photo courtesy EverythngGP
'Climate change in action:' Scientist says fires in Alberta linked to climate change
albertaEDMONTON - In May 2016, a wildfire near Fort McMurray forced more than 80,000 people to flee the northern Alberta city, destroyed 2,400 buildings and burned nearly 6,000 square kilometres of fo...
Jun 09, 2019
Canadian general says Islamic State defeated but ideology 'alive and well'
CALGARY - Canada's former commander in Iraq says the Islamic State may have been defeated on the battlefield, but the militant group remains alive and well as an insurgency and could still wield stron...
Jun 09, 2019
Feed the Kids Food Truck fundraiser hits 100 Ave Thursday
The 5th annual Feed the Kids Foodtruck Fundraiser is taking place downtown on Thursday. Nan Swanston, one of the owners of Image Design, the company that organizes the event, says it's a fundraiser fo...
Jun 09, 2019
'It's not about popularity': Trudeau, Macron meet in Paris amid lagging polls
PARIS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday defended their shared efforts to ease the worries of their citizens, denounced those seeking to capitalize on such ...
Jun 09, 2019
South Peace Regional Archives earns provincial recognition for magazine
The South Peace Regional Archives have received some provincial recognition.The Society's magazine Telling Our Stories was awarded the Alan D. Ridge Award of Merit for Print from the Archives Society ...
Jun 09, 2019 ASA Board Member Carson Murphy presents the Alan D. Ridge Award of Merit (Print) to Archives Executive Director Alyssa Currie and Archivist Josephine Sallis (Right)
Spike Lee calls for Hollywood to 'shut it down' in Georgia
LOS ANGELES - Director Spike Lee is calling for Hollywood production companies to leave Georgia over a law that would ban abortions as early as six weeks, upon detection of a fetal heartbeat. Most stu...
Jun 09, 2019
6 dead in storms and floods in southeastern China
BEIJING - Six people have died and one is missing after heavy rains and flooding in southeastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency said Sunday. Xinhua said that 88,000 people have been evacuated ...
Jun 09, 2019
Pope laments current "culture of insults," church propaganda
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has lamented what he calls today's "culture of insults" in the world. In his homily during Pentecost Mass Sunday in St. Peter's Square, Francis also decried that "the more ...
Jun 09, 2019