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Mexico posts new daily highs for pandemic cases and deaths
MEXICO CITY - Mexico posted new one-day highs for the pandemic Thursday, with 22,339 newly confirmed coronavirus infections and 1,803 deaths from COVID-19 recorded for the previous 24 hours. The recen...
Jan 21, 2021
Local residents organizing bottle drive for Mighty Max Saturday
The family of "Mighty" Max Sych is asking Grande Prairie residents to pull their empty bottles together this Saturday to help raise money for Mighty Max.The little boy from Fairview suffers from a rar...
Jan 21, 2021
World leaders cheer US return to climate fight under Biden
BERLIN - World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunn...
Jan 21, 2021
CNN, MSNBC viewers flip for Biden; Fox audience slumps
NEW YORK - Nothing illustrates the political passions of a television network's audience quite like ratings for a presidential inaugural. The 6.53 million people who watched President Joe Biden take t...
Jan 21, 2021
McConnell seeks to push Trump impeachment trial to February
WASHINGTON - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to push back the start of Donald Trump's impeachment trial to February to give the former president time to prepare and review his ca...
Jan 21, 2021
Alice Hoagland, gay-rugby godmother and 9-11 activist, dies
Alice Hoagland, a beloved figure of the gay rugby movement that her own son, Mark Bingham, helped set in motion shortly before he perished in the 2001 terrorist attacks as one of the heroes of Flight ...
Jan 21, 2021
Canadians react as Julie Payette steps down as Governor General
OTTAWA - "Every employee in the government of Canada has the right to work in a safe and healthy environment, and we will always take this very seriously. Today's announcement provides an opportunity ...
Jan 21, 2021
Eleven new COVID-19 cases in Grande Prairie; no restrictions being eased in province
The City of Grande Prairie added 11 new cases of COVID-19 and 18 more recoveries for January 20, bringing the city's active case total down to 178.Seven new cases were reported in the County of Grande...
Jan 21, 2021
EU leaders call on Russia to release Navalny
BRUSSELS - The European Union used a video summit of its 27 leaders Thursday to call on Russia to immediately release opposition leader Alexei Navalny and make sure that his rights are fully respected...
Jan 21, 2021
The highlights — and lowlights — of Julie Payette's tenure as Governor General
OTTAWA - Oct. 2, 2017: Julie Payette is sworn in as Canada's fourth female Governor General, taking over from David Johnston. Nov. 1, 2017: Payette takes on fake news and bogus science, criticizing cl...
Jan 21, 2021