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City Council highlights from Monday's meeting
Highlights from Monday's Grande Prairie City Council meeting:Council has officially added the trigger for when the Temporary Mandatory Face Covering (Mask) Bylaw would be deactivated. It has added the...
Nov 3, 2020
Allard says Highway 40 twinning project on track for 2021 start
Grande Prairie MLA Tracy Allard was back out on the job this past weekend, following her recovery from COVID-19.Allard, who also serves as the Minister of Municipal Affairs in Alberta, tested positive...
Nov 3, 2020
Uganda police arrest Bobi Wine after presidential nomination
KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan police on Tuesday again arrested Bobi Wine, a popular singer and opposition presidential hopeful, just after he was successfully certified as a candidate in next year's elect...
Nov 3, 2020
Dutch train caught by whale sculpture to be salvaged
SPIJKENISSE, Netherlands - A salvage operation got underway Tuesday to lift a runaway metro train off a sculpture of a whale's tail, where it landed after plowing through the end of an elevated sectio...
Nov 3, 2020
Germany eyes antigen tests to keep elderly safe from virus
BERLIN - As Europe tries to break a surge in coronavirus infections, Germany is counting on a new type of test to avoid closing nursing homes to visitors, a move that caused considerable anguish among...
Nov 3, 2020
Northern Greece locks down as Europe tightest restrictions
ATHENS, Greece - A lockdown came into effect in northern Greece on Tuesday, with the southeastern European country joining the list of the continent's nations tightening restrictions to restrain rapid...
Nov 3, 2020
Control of Senate at stake as Trump's allies face Democrats
WASHINGTON - Control of the Senate is a razor-close proposition in Tuesday's election, as Republicans fight to retain their majority against a surge of Democratic candidates confronting the president'...
Nov 3, 2020
U.S. election day and a Trump impersonator in Canada: In The News for Nov. 3, 2020
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 ... What we are watching...
Nov 3, 2020
Iran's supreme leader, quoting Trump, mocks US election
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's supreme leader mocked America's presidential election Tuesday in a televised address, quoting President Donald Trump's own baseless claims about voter fraud to criticize the vote...
Nov 3, 2020
Canada approves first HIV self-test in long-awaited move to reduce screening barriers
Federal regulators have approved the first HIV self-test in Canada in a long-awaited move that experts have called critical to reaching people who don't know they have the virus.Health Canada granted ...
Nov 3, 2020