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Year in review: A look at news events in April 2020
A look at news events in April 2020: 1 - Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced a $71-billion price tag on the Liberal wage subsidy program for large and small businesses. That's expected to ...
Dec 31, 2020
Year in review: A look at news events in May 2020
A look at news events in May 2020: 01 - Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, considered the driver of the Afrobeat sound that featured prominent guitars, complex brass harmonies and polyrhythmic drumming, d...
Dec 31, 2020
Year in review: A look at news events in July 2020
A look at news events in July 2020: 01 - Canada, the U.S. and Mexico officially enacted the new North American free-trade deal, after months of gruelling negotiations and several setbacks. 01 - The CO...
Dec 31, 2020
Dick Thornburgh, ex-governor and US attorney general, dies
Dick Thornburgh, who as Pennsylvania governor won plaudits for his cool handling of the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis and as U.S. attorney general restored credibility to a Justice Department hurt by ...
Dec 31, 2020
Year in review: A look at news events in March 2020
A look at news events in March 2020: 01 - Former U.S. vice-president Joe Biden scored a resounding victory in South Carolina's Democratic primary, riding a wave of African-American support to get some...
Dec 31, 2020
No charges for police in death of 'boogaloo' movement martyr
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Maryland prosecutors have ruled out criminal charges against any police officers in the shooting death of a man whose family says he was sleeping in his bed next to his girlfriend ...
Dec 31, 2020
Industry, local mayors say they weren't consulted on B.C. fish farm phase out plan
Several Vancouver Island mayors and members of British Columbia's salmon farming industry say a federal government decision to phase out fish farming has left them feeling "disposable and discarded." ...
Dec 31, 2020
Aquatera Christmas tree curbside collection set to begin January 11
Starting on January 11, Aquatera will begin collecting natural Christmas trees as part of their annual Christmas Tree Curbside Collection program.Grande Prairie residents are asked to place their tree...
Dec 31, 2020
Glenda Jackson returns to screen with 'Elizabeth Is Missing'
NEW YORK - Only one project lured two-time Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson back to the screen after an absence of 25 years: "Elizabeth Is Missing." The film is a mystery but so much more - a power...
Dec 31, 2020
One Good Thing: Special Olympian spreads message of love
Gary Schottle arrived in time to see the other kids in line hitting and jumping on his young son. Nicknamed "Tank," Derek towered over the pestering kids, yet lacked the confidence to stick up for him...
Dec 31, 2020