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Congress' inaction endangers black lung fund
COEBURN, Va. - Former coal miner John Robinson's bills for black lung treatments run $4,000 a month, but the federal fund he depends on to help cover them is being drained of money because of inaction...
Mar 21, 2019
Sir John A. Macdonald statue vandalized again in downtown Montreal
MONTREAL - Vandals have spray painted a Sir John A. Macdonald statue in downtown Montreal once again. Montreal police noted the spray paint early today at the imposing bronze monument to the country's...
Mar 21, 2019
Davie, rivals square off over future of multibillion-dollar shipbuilding plan
OTTAWA - The president of Davie Shipbuilding says he is confident the Quebec-based shipyard will be tapped to build two new ferries included in this week's federal budget. But James Davies says it is ...
Mar 21, 2019
Pregnant asylum seeker rescued from snow trying to cross Manitoba border
WINNIPEG - A pregnant woman who walked across the United States border into Manitoba was rescued after she became trapped in a snowbank and appeared to go into labour. Emerson-Franklin Reeve Dave Carl...
Mar 21, 2019
Cummings: Ivanka Trump not preserving all official email
WASHINGTON - A top House Democrat says Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and a powerful White House aide, is not preserving all of her official email communications as required by federal law. Re...
Mar 21, 2019
GPRC hosts annual High School Basketball All-Star games
sThe annual GPRC High School basketball all-star game will take place Thursday evening at the college.44 of the best basketball players from the around the peace will be in attendance to show off to b...
Mar 21, 2019 44 athletes from around the peace will be taking part in the two games this evening.
River ferry sinks in Tigris near Iraq's Mosul, killing 71
BAGHDAD - A ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year and Mother's Day capsized in the Tigris River near the Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, killing at least 71 people, officials ...
Mar 21, 2019
Drugs, guns seized in search of Grande Prairie homes
A search of two homes in Grande Prairie last week uncovered a variety of drugs and weapons.ALERT Grande Prairie's organized crime and gang team, with the assistance of Grande Prairie RCMP, searched th...
Mar 21, 2019 Photo: ALERT Grande Prairie
Trans woman hopes funding cut will send message to Vancouver rape crisis group
VANCOUVER - A transgender woman whose case against Canada's oldest rape crisis centre was dismissed by the courts says she hopes the City of Vancouver's decision to ...
Mar 21, 2019
'It has to send a message:' Broncos families await sentencing for truck driver
Kevin Matechuk says he will never, never forgive the semi driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash.Matechuk's 19-year-old son Layne of Colonsay, Sask., is still coping with a brain inju...
Mar 21, 2019