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AJHL looking for path to return to play
The Alberta Junior Hockey League wants to get back on the ice.The league's board of governors met on Friday to discuss the future of the current season, which the AJHL was actually able to drop the pu...
Dec 20, 2020

Pandemic forced Trudeau back to centre stage, improved his political fortunes
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau always knew 2020 was going to be a difficult year, his first leading a minority Liberal government dependent on opposition party support for its survival. But that's turned out...
Dec 20, 2020

2nd COVID-19 vaccine authorized in US preparing to ship out
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. - Workers on Sunday began packaging shipments of the second COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S., a desperately needed boost to efforts to bring the coronavirus pandemic under c...
Dec 20, 2020

Ledecka edges Suter to add World Cup win to Olympic title
VAL D'ISERE, France - Ester Ledecka edged Corinne Suter for her first win in a women's World Cup super-G on Sunday, nearly three years after winning Olympic gold in the discipline. The Czech skier fin...
Dec 20, 2020

Chamber celebrating 20 years for Centre 2000
The Grande Prairie & District Chamber of Commerce is celebrating 20 years for Centre 2000.A special light display that can have different colours installed to mark special occasions is now in plac...
Dec 20, 2020

2nd COVID-19 vaccine authorized in US preparing to ship out
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. - Workers on Sunday began packaging shipments of the second COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S., a desperately needed boost to efforts to bring the coronavirus pandemic under c...
Dec 20, 2020

Asia Today: Outbreak grows in Sydney’s beach suburbs
SYDNEY, Australia - The outbreak in Sydney's northern beach suburbs has grown to 70 cases with an additional 30 in the last 24 hours, and authorities say they may never be able to trace the source. Wh...
Dec 20, 2020

Official: Large car bomb kills 9 in Afghan capital
KABUL - A car bomb blast that rocked Afghanistan's capital Sunday morning killed at least nine people, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry. Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi told reporters at th...
Dec 20, 2020

EU-UK trade talks floundering over fish as cutoff day nears
BRUSSELS - Deep into a crucial weekend of negotiations, a breakthrough on fishing rights remained elusive for the European Union and Britain, leaving both without a trade agreement that would dull the...
Dec 20, 2020

Camp Tamarack receives $50,000 grant from province
Officials with Camp Tamarack say the camp has received a big boost thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Government of Alberta. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, summer camps across the province had to b...
Dec 20, 2020