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Upgrades to former Peace River residential school site comes through federal grant
The Peace River Museum Archives and Mackenzie Centre have earned a federal grant which will be used to provide some landscaping and sign upgrades to the site of the St. Augustine Mission.The $34,000 g...
Dec 2, 2020
Bullet holes from 2014 attack on Parliament Hill to be left untouched in renovations
OTTAWA - The civil servant leading the most extensive renovations on Centre Block in more than a century says the repairs will not erase the scars from the 2014 attack on Parliament Hill.That includes...
Dec 2, 2020
The Sundance Film Festival goes largely virtual for 2021
Leave the snow boots, parkas and glove warmers in the closet, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival is coming down from the mountain and straight to your living room. Organizers on Wednesday said that this ...
Dec 2, 2020
Nurse says a positive attitude around living and playing in Tampa is key
When Nick Nurse coached Derby of the British Basketball League back in the early 1990s, the team could only afford to book the Moorways Centre practice hall two nights a week. Nurse and his team would...
Dec 2, 2020
Vaccine priority list must be refined to match available doses: Tam
OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says the priority list of people who will get vaccinated first against COVID-19 has to be refined because the initial six million doses won't be enough to...
Dec 2, 2020
AQHRA gives awards to local horses, connections
Three owners from the Peace Country came home with an armful of trophies from the 2020 Alberta Quarter Horse Racing Association Awards.Sexsmith's Chuck Stojan was named Champion Owner. Stojan's Getit ...
Dec 2, 2020
Human activities, shipping, fishing, polluting, links to killer whale deaths: study
VICTORIA - A long-running study of more than 50 dead killer whales in the Pacific Ocean concludes human activities pose deadly threats to the orcas. Killer whale deaths from Alaska to British Columbia...
Dec 2, 2020
Bow Island woman, children found safe after being reported missing
Mounties who were looking for a woman and her three children in southern Alberta say the family has been found safe.Bow Island RCMP asked for help Tuesday in finding the 41-year-old woman and her chil...
Dec 2, 2020
“Beam me app”: Star Trek’s Capt. Kirk urges Alberta to adopt federal COVID tracer
EDMONTON - Capt. James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, in violation of Starfleet's Prime Directive, is questioning the intelligence of Alberta-based life forms over their COVID-19 contact tracing ...
Dec 2, 2020
'My God, we're scared': Serial attacks put a suburb on edge
WALTHAM, Mass. - The attacks come after dark, without warning, usually from behind. The victims, all men, are hit so hard on the head with some sort of blunt object that they are often knocked to the ...
Dec 2, 2020