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Northern Twistmasters have massive weekend at National Championships
Plenty of hardware will be coming back to Grande Prairie following the 2019 Canadian National Armwrestling Championships which were held in Edmonton over the weekend.Many members of the Northern Twist...
Jul 15, 2019 (photo credit to the Northern Twistmasters Facebook page)
Sen. Chris Murphy writing book on gun violence
NEW YORK - One of Washington's leading advocates for gun control, Sen. Chris Murphy, has a book coming out next year. Murphy's "Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy" will...
Jul 15, 2019
Unique retail market continues boom in Grande Prairie
A retail market analysis commissioned by the City of Grande Prairie shows that the city continues to serve as the retail capital of the north.The report shows that retail spending in the Swan City in ...
Jul 15, 2019 (photo credit to Shaun Penner)
In the news today, July 15
Four stories in the news for Monday, July 15 --- YOUR WARD NEWS EDITOR FACES SENTENCING TODAY The editor of a free Toronto-based publication faces sentencing today for wilfully promoting hat...
Jul 15, 2019
Your Ward News editor faces sentencing today; says ready to go to jail
TORONTO - The editor of a free Toronto-based publication faces sentencing today for wilfully promoting hatred against women and Jews. The prosecution wants to see James Sears jailed for 12 months. The...
Jul 15, 2019
City staff, DTS board want more time to discuss future plans
A city committee is asking council to approve extending funding for the Disabled Transportation Society until September 1 from August 1.Back in June, council had approved keeping funding as budgeted b...
Jul 15, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith
Weakened Barry rolls into Louisiana, drenches Gulf Coast
NEW ORLEANS - Barry rolled into the Louisiana coast Saturday, flooding highways, forcing people to scramble to rooftops and dumping heavy rain that officials had feared could test the levees and pumps...
Jul 15, 2019
Toxic lake in Russia's Siberia becomes selfie sensation
MOSCOW - Residents of a city in Siberia don't need to fly off to tropical locales for picturesque selfies taken by pristine turquoise waters. Thousands of Novosibirsk residents - ranging from scantily...
Jul 15, 2019
Global concern grows over Canada's funding of fight against AIDS, TB, malaria
OTTAWA - International concern is growing in medical and development circles that the Trudeau government is about to step back from its much-publicized global leadership on eradicating AIDS, tube...
Jul 15, 2019
NATO secretary general visits Canada for Trudeau meeting, base tour
OTTAWA - The secretary-general of NATO is in Canada today meeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Jens Stoltenberg will tour CFB Petawawa with Trudeau and discuss Canada's NATO deployments in Latv...
Jul 15, 2019