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Federal government tosses dozens of claims from vets who died without survivors
OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs Canada has tossed dozens of claims for disability benefits by veterans or retired RCMP officers who died without an eligible survivor or dependant - many while their app...
May 16, 2020
Iced coffees and orange juice: as schools remain shut, locker contents ripen
For months, their contents have sat locked up in the stale hallway air in schools across the country. The jackets, books and gym shoes - along with more perishable items - were left beh...
May 16, 2020
Trudeau sees travel between PM's 'cottages' as trips between work and home
OTTAWA - While Canadians are being counselled to avoid travelling to their cottages during the COVID-19 pandemic, Justin Trudeau is expected to spend the first long weeke...
May 16, 2020
Overdoses 'sadly normalized' in British Columbia: addictions minister
VANCOUVER - A rising death toll from overdoses in B.C. during the COVID-19 pandemic has advocates, government officials and health-care workers concerned about a public health emergency that has been&...
May 16, 2020
Autopsy: Pilot in Kobe Bryant crash had no alcohol, drugs
LOS ANGELES - The pilot flying Kobe Bryant and seven others to a youth basketball tournament outside Los Angeles did not have alcohol or drugs in his system, and all sustained immediately fatal injuri...
May 15, 2020
Autopsy: Pilot in Kobe Bryant crash had no alcohol, drugs
LOS ANGELES - The pilot flying Kobe Bryant and seven others to a youth basketball tournament did not have alcohol or drugs in his system, and all nine sustained immediately fatal injuries when their h...
May 15, 2020
Rugby Canada cuts player payments, says it will need financial help later in 2020
TORONTO - Citing financial pressures due to the global pandemic, Rugby Canada has cancelled "training support payments" for its centralized men's and women's players as of May 1. The players get a mon...
May 15, 2020
NFL teams can reopen facilities Tuesday - with provisos
NFL teams can begin reopening their facilities on Tuesday if state and local governments will allow it. In a memo sent to the 32 teams Friday by Commissioner Roger Goodell and obtained by The Associat...
May 15, 2020
GPREP to move overflow cot program to Bowes Event Centre
The Grande Prairie Regional Emergency Partnership says it will be moving its temporary cot overflow program to the Bowes Event Centre (BEC) over the next couple of weeks, bringing it over from the Dav...
May 15, 2020
$60,000 worth of fentanyl seized in Lethbridge Airbnb bust
Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) made a significant drug bust Thursday.The Crime Suppression Team was investigating suspected drug trafficking activity of two men renting an Airbnb on the 1600 block of...
May 15, 2020