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Pamela Anderson: Treatment of Julian Assange unfair
LONDON - Former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson says Julian Assange "does not deserve to be in a supermax prison" after visiting the WikiLeaks founder behind bars. Assange is in London's Belmarsh Pris...
May 7, 2019
UN office hails Myanmar journalists' release, with a caveat
GENEVA - The U.N. human rights office is praising the release of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from prison in Myanmar, but says a "very dire situation" remains for freedom of expression ...
May 7, 2019
Climate change missing as US defends Arctic policy
ROVANIEMI, Finland - The Arctic is melting, but don't ask U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to talk about climate change. Nor even to agree on a text that mentions it. For the Trump administration, ...
May 7, 2019
Jean Vanier, Catholic hero to developmentally disabled, dies
PARIS - Jean Vanier, whose charity work helped improve conditions for the developmentally disabled in Canada and multiple other countries over the past half-century, has died at 90. A charity he found...
May 7, 2019
Jean Vanier, Catholic hero to developmentally disabled, dies
PARIS - Jean Vanier, whose charity work helped improve conditions for the developmentally disabled in Canada and multiple other countries over the past half-century, has died at 90. A charity he found...
May 7, 2019
Family grieving after bodies of mom and daughter found
The aunt of a Calgary toddler whose body was found along with her mother's says she hoped they would be found alive, but had also braced for the worst.Josie Sanderson, who lives in St. Catherine's, On...
May 7, 2019
Fog Advisory in effect
There is a fog advisory in place. It is in effect for much of the Grande Prairie region: Co. of Grande Prairie near Beaverlodge Hythe and Demmitt Co. of Grande Prairie near Grande Prairie and Wembley ...
May 7, 2019
Canada welcomes any U.S. help on dispute with China, says rural minister
OTTAWA - A Nova Scotia cabinet minister says the federal government would welcome any help the United States could offer in helping Canada in its ongoing dispute with China. "I would say that it would...
May 7, 2019
Bear Creek Folk Music Festival gets $87,500 worth of funding from the City
The City has approved $87,500 worth of funding to go to the Bear Creek Folk Music Festival. The funding was awarded to the festival, as part of the city's 2019 Large Scale Tourism Grant Funding progra...
May 7, 2019 2018 Bear Creek Folk Music Festival. Photo/ Martine Martell
B.C. Green win sends message to established parties that climate issue a winner
NANAIMO, B.C. - British Columbia voters sent a message that Canadians are deeply concerned about the environment and climate issues will be at the forefront in October's federal election campaign, jub...
May 7, 2019