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Messing leads Canadian figure skating team at world championships
Keegan Messing headlines the Canadian team for next month's world figure skating championships in Stockholm. The worlds, March 22-28, cap a rocky season for Canadian skaters that saw both Skate Canada...
Feb 25, 2021
Canadian fighter Alexis Davis returns to action Saturday on UFC card in Las Vegas
Canadian Alexis Davis returns to action Saturday with a surgically repaired shoulder and a renewed zest for fighting. The 36-year-old from Port Colborne, Ont. who now makes her home in California, ste...
Feb 25, 2021
Public health agency investigating quarantine sexual assault allegations
OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada is launching an investigation and reviewing its practices after two returning travellers were allegedly sexually assaulted during their mandatory quarantine...
Feb 25, 2021
Logging delay agreement for B.C. old-growth tree stand helps endangered spotted owls
An agreement to delay logging of an old-growth stand of British Columbia forest has given a one-year reprieve to one of Canada's most endangered species. But governments now have to come up with a per...
Feb 25, 2021
B.C. businessman dinged for illegal donation to NDP MP's 2015 campaign
OTTAWA - A British Columbia businessman who made an illegal contribution to New Democrat MP Peter Julian's 2015 election campaign has been ordered to pay $7,500 to the receiver general of Canada. Elec...
Feb 25, 2021
Pandemic spending, no tax increases: Some highlights from the Alberta budget
EDMONTON - Alberta's United Conservative government tabled its budget Thursday. Here are some of the highlights: - No new taxes or tax increases. - Deficit of $18.2 billion on estimated revenues of $4...
Feb 25, 2021
Grande Prairie adds 22 new COVID-19 cases, 16 recoveries
The City of Grande Prairie added 22 new cases of COVID-19 and 16 recoveries, raising the active case total in the city by six to 227 as of the end of day Wednesday.The County added 13 new cases for Fe...
Feb 25, 2021
Monday fireball a small comet fragment say U of A scientists
The mystery of what caused a giant fireball that lit up the sky over much of Alberta earlier this week has been solved.Scientists at the University of Alberta say calculations using two observation si...
Feb 25, 2021
Alberta's deficit forecast decreases while debt is expected to rise as Budget 2021 is tabled
Alberta's United Conservative Party tabled Budget 2021-22 in the Legislature on Thursday, which forecasts a deficit of $20.2-billion, with a targeted deficit of $18.2-billion by 2021-22, and a total t...
Feb 25, 2021
Two charged after Horse Lake armed robbery, forcible confinement report
Beaverlodge RCMP say a report of an armed robbery and forcible confinement from Horse Lake has led to charges against two people.Details have not been released, other than to say it happened on Februa...
Feb 25, 2021