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Rowing Canada sanctions former head coach of B.C. varsity women's team
Rowing Canada has suspended the former head coach of the University of Victoria women's rowing team for one year after an investigation into allegations of aggressive and demeaning treatment. The deci...
Apr 20, 2021
Rowing Canada sanctions former head coach of B.C. varsity women's team
Rowing Canada has suspended the former head coach of the University of Victoria women's rowing team for one year after an investigation into allegations of aggressive and demeaning treatment. The deci...
Apr 20, 2021
City looking to be reimbursed by province for vaccination clinic costs
Grande Prairie City Council wants the province to help it pay for the cost of having a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in the Montrose Cultural Centre.At Monday's meeting, Council approved a motion to hav...
Apr 20, 2021
George Floyd's death was 'wake-up call' about systemic racism: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is welcoming the guilty verdict against the former Minneapolis police officer whose knee to the neck of George Floyd ended in the Black man's death last May. Der...
Apr 20, 2021
Trudeau says Liberal budget is not a launch pad for a federal election
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists Monday's federal budget is not intended as a launching pad for an election later this year but he's not entirely ruling one out. Trudeau says it will be ...
Apr 20, 2021
County administration building added to COVID-19 outbreak list
The County of Grande Prairie office has been added to Alberta Health's COVID-19 outbreak list Tuesday, having surpassed ten cases linked to the site.Alberta Health says a total of 17 cases have been i...
Apr 20, 2021
Grande Prairie records 35 new COVID-19 cases, 50 recoveries
The City of Grande Prairie recorded 35 new cases of COVID-19 and 50 recoveries for Monday, bringing the active case total in the Swan City down by 15 to 485 as of the end of day April 19.The County of...
Apr 20, 2021
DiCaprio, Fonda urge US not to sign climate deal with Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO - Dozens of celebrities including actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Jane Fonda and Joaquin Phoenix on Tuesday called on U.S. President Joe Biden to refrain from signing any environmental agreem...
Apr 20, 2021
Ex-Minneapolis cop guilty of murder, manslaughter in death of George Floyd
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on all three charges he faced in the death of George Floyd.Floyd died last May after Chauvin, a White officer, pinned his knee on ...
Apr 20, 2021
Quick Quotes: Reaction to Quebec court ruling on Bill 21, religious symbols law
Quebec Superior Court Justice Marc-Andre Blanchard on Tuesday upheld the bulk of the province's secularism law, known as Bill 21, which bans many public sector workers from wearing religious symbols o...
Apr 20, 2021