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Grande Prairie's housing market stayed stable in 2019
Grande Prairie's real estate market stayed on level last year compared to the year prior.Lesley Craig, President of the Grande Prairie & Area Association of Realtors, says in 2019, the housing mar...
Feb 28, 2020 Canadian Press file photo

Grande Prairie area placed under snowfall warning
UPDATE (Feb. 29, 3:32 p.m.): Environment Canada has ended the snowfall warning for the Grande Prairie, Beaverlodge and Valleyview areas. The warning has also been lifted for Grande Cache.Grande Prairi...
Feb 28, 2020

Fort St. John product going after international curling gold
A curler originally from the B.C. Peace will go after another international medal, starting this weekend in Switzerland.Fort St. John product Ina Forrest is again with Team Canada at the World Wheelch...
Feb 28, 2020 From left, front, Jon Thurston, Ina Forrest, Dennis Thiessen, Mark Ideson and Collinda Joseph. Back, team leader Wendy Morgan, coach Wayne Kiel. Photo supplied by Curling Canada

Busy curling weekend in Dawson Creek
The Dawson Creek Curling Club will be a busy please this weekend as it is hosting two provincial qualifiers.Five teams each are entered in the mixed and U15 events.The first draw is at 7 p.m. Friday n...
Feb 28, 2020 Photo from the Dawson Creek Curling Club Facebook page.

Beyak suspended again from Senate despite apology for posting offensive letters
OTTAWA - The Senate has voted to suspend Sen. Lynn Beyak a second time over derogatory letters about Indigenous Peoples posted on her website. Senators have approved a report from the upper house...
Feb 27, 2020

Trudeau to meet provincial, territorial leaders amid heightened tensions
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will sit down with provincial and territorial leaders on March 13 to wrestle with some of the thorny issues that are dividing the nation. The first ministers' me...
Feb 27, 2020

Champagne heads to Europe to discuss Iran crash in Ukraine, meet troops in Latvia
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he will make a renewed push for compensation for families of people who died in the Ukraine International Airlines crash on a th...
Feb 27, 2020

Ontario coronavirus case is province's first instance of human-to-human spread
TORONTO - Ontario now has a sixth confirmed case of the novel coronavirus, and while it is the first instance in the province of human-to-human transmission, health officials say the risk is still low...
Feb 27, 2020

MPs to examine privacy implications of facial-recognition technology used by RCMP
OTTAWA - The controversial use of facial-recognition tools will soon be scrutinized by MPs. Members of the House of Commons committee on access to information, privacy and eth...
Feb 27, 2020

Canada pumps nearly 900 billion litres of raw sewage into waterways since 2013
OTTAWA - Canada's old-fashioned city sewer systems dumped nearly 900 billion litres of raw sewage into this country's waterways over five years, enough to fill up an Olympic-sized swimm...
Feb 27, 2020