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Alberta Summer Games in Lethbridge postponed to 2021
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Another major sporting event has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The Lethbridge 2020 Alberta Summer Games Society has elected to postpone the games until the summer of 2021....
Apr 2, 2020 Lethbridge Alberta Summer Games 2020 logo
Province suspends parking fees at hospitals beginning Friday
Starting Friday, parking fees at the QEII hospital and others around the province will be suspended amid the COVID-19 pandemic.The province made the announcement Thursday afternoon, citing a desire to...
Apr 2, 2020
Judge won't delay Wisconsin election but extends voting
MADISON, Wis. - A federal judge on Thursday declined to postpone Wisconsin's presidential primary over the health threat from the new coronavirus, but he ordered that people be given an extra six days...
Apr 2, 2020
New fund started by United Way Alberta Northwest meant to help seniors, kids
United Way Alberta Northwest has started a fund to, as it says in a Facebook post, "get dollars where they are needed the most."It has come up with an initiative called the Community Response Fund.Exe...
Apr 2, 2020 From the United Way Alberta Northwest Facebook page
Grande Prairie Salvation Army to create food assistance program for school kids
The Grande Prairie Salvation Army has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Province, to develop and run a program that supplies vulnerable students and their families with food and/or meals during t...
Apr 2, 2020
Hockey players in the minors face uncertainty, job fears
Tim Harrison made the long drive from South Carolina to his home just south of Boston with a lot on his mind. The ECHL season had just been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the 26-ye...
Apr 2, 2020
Local distilleries now distributing hand sanitizer
Broken Oak and Latitude 55 Distilleries in Grande Prairie are now distributing their made-in-house hand sanitizer.Around the middle of March, Broken Oak and Latitude 55 announced they were beginning t...
Apr 2, 2020 Both distilleries are offering 375 millilitre bottles of the hand sanitizer. (Latitude 55/Facebook)
Appeal court nixes fresh lobby probe of Aga Khan in Trudeau vacation case
OTTAWA - An appeal court says there's no need for the lobbying commissioner to take another look at whether the Aga Khan broke the rules by giving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&nbs...
Apr 2, 2020
Man charged in Glendon roadside double homicide
BONNYVILLE, Alta. - Police have laid charges in the fatal shooting of two men on a rural road in eastern Alberta last week.Anthony Bilodeau, who is 31 and from Glendon, Alta., is accused of second-deg...
Apr 2, 2020
The race to trace the spread of COVID-19 in Canada using disease trackers
TORONTO - Increasingly frustrated health officials say they are prepared to take more aggressive measures to track and contain people with COVID-19 as the number of sick and dead continues to soar. An...
Apr 2, 2020