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Wolverines Adapted Sports Association set to reboot operations
For the first time since March 13, the Grande Prairie Wolverines Adapted Sports Association (formerly known as the Wolverines Wheelchair Sports Association) has been given the green light to start ope...
Oct 6, 2020
Man who was subject of wife's appeal in Nova Scotia assisted death case dies
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia man whose wife tried to stop his medically assisted death in court has died in hospital. According to his obituary posted on a funeral home website, 83-year-old Jack Eugene Sor...
Oct 6, 2020
Mayor Kennedy Stewart proposes $30-million recommendation to help Vancouver homeless
VANCOUVER - Mayor Kennedy Stewart wants councillors to support a multimillion-dollar proposal to help those who are homeless in Vancouver during the pandemic. Stewart has released a recommendation to ...
Oct 6, 2020
Wildfire near Banff “out of control,” state of local emergency declared
BANFF, AB - A wildfire northeast of Banff is no longer classified as being held.Early Monday, the Devil's Head fire had only burned approximately 600 hectares of land and it was not expected to grow a...
Oct 6, 2020
Changes to community group funding approved to align with City Council's strategic priorities
Grande Prairie City Council has approved changes to the policy on community group funding, which are intended to give more clear direction to council and community groups alike, while also reducing ad...
Oct 6, 2020
Scott Moe apologizes on campaign trail to family of woman killed in his 1997 crash
SASKATOON - Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe has publicly apologized to the family of a woman killed in a 1997 highway crash he was involved in. The apology came during a campaign stop in Saskatoon...
Oct 6, 2020
Quebec Premier Francois Legault to formally apologize to Joyce Echaquan's family
Quebec Premier Francois Legault says he will present an official apology today to the family of an Indigenous woman who filmed staff insulting her as she lay dying in a hospital northeast of Montreal ...
Oct 6, 2020
Liberals, NDP block Conservative effort to have prorogation study include WE affair
OTTAWA - The Liberals and the NDP have blocked an effort by the Conservatives to get the WE Charity affair probed ahead of a study into why the Liberals prorogued Parliament. The government must provi...
Oct 6, 2020
Law enforcement officer asks for dismissal of Raptors president Ujiri's counterclaim
OAKLAND, Calif. - Lawyers for an American law enforcement officer have filed a motion to dismiss a counterclaim to a lawsuit from Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri in the aftermath of an altercati...
Oct 6, 2020
Malian official: Politician Cisse, French aid worker freed
BAMAKO, Mali - Islamic extremists have freed prominent Malian politician Soumaila Cisse after holding him hostage for more than six months, as well as a French aid worker who was kidnapped in 2016, a ...
Oct 6, 2020