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City council approves third reading of rezoning request
Grande Prairie City council approved the third reading of a rezoning request of several parcels of land in the Trader Ridge area at today's council meeting. The developer requested the city remove the...
Sep 09, 2019
QB Chris Streveler leads Blue Bombers over Roughriders to maintain first in West
WINNIPEG - Willie Jefferson didn't want to break a promise to his mother. When the Winnipeg Blue Bombers defensive lineman sacked Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Cody Fajardo on Saturday and forc...
Sep 09, 2019
19 Slams: Nadal stops Medvedev comeback bid to win US Open
NEW YORK - Rafael Nadal's 19th Grand Slam trophy went from inevitable to suddenly in doubt in a thrill-a-minute U.S. Open final. What had all the makings of a casual crowning morphed into a grueling c...
Sep 09, 2019
Bianca Andreescu's historic win celebrated across Canada
Canadians cheered Bianca Andreescu at viewing parties, sports bars and even at the Toronto International Film Festival as she made sports history on Saturday. Fans were rapt as the 19-year-old from Mi...
Sep 09, 2019
Bianca Andreescu's historic win celebrated across Canada
Canadians cheered Bianca Andreescu at viewing parties, sports bars and even at the Toronto International Film Festival as she made sports history on Saturday. Fans were rapt as the 19-year-old from Mi...
Sep 09, 2019
Province opens public submissions for environmentalist foreign funding inquiry
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has started a website to allow people to submit information to its inquiry into foreign funding of environmental groups.Inquiry commissioner Steve Allan says he is al...
Sep 09, 2019
AHS issues alert after food handler found to have hepatitis A
EDMONTON - Alberta Health Services has issued a public alert following confirmation of hepatitis A in a food handler in Edmonton.The health agency says the infected individual helped to prepare food a...
Sep 09, 2019
School board confirms two teachers refused jobs due to Quebec's secularism law
MONTREAL - A Quebec school board says it refused to hire two teachers who wear religious symbols because they would not comply with the province's new secularism law. The Commission scolaire...
Sep 09, 2019
One dead following head-on collision near Westlock
WESTLOCK, Alta. - A man has been killed in a head-on collision on a northern Alberta highway.RCMP at Westlock say a truck was headed south on Highway 44 shortly after 5 a.m. today when an oncoming nor...
Sep 09, 2019
Poor People's Campaign to register voters on 20-state tour
RALEIGH, N.C. - The Poor People's Campaign will begin touring more than 20 states later this month to bring together residents of disenfranchised communities and help them register to vote. The Rev. W...
Sep 09, 2019