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Statistics Canada rejigs low-income stats, showing growing poverty gap
OTTAWA - An updated picture of poverty across the country prior to the COVID-19 pandemic is showing that those living well below the low-income threshold had fallen further behind. The figures fr...
Sep 09, 2020
Scheers to continue as PWPSD Board Chair
Kari Scheers will serve a second term as chair of the Peace Wapiti Public School Division Board.The trustee for Ward 1, which oversees Eaglesham, Woking and Rycroft, was elected by acclamation at the ...
Sep 09, 2020
LGBTQ Canadians more likely to experience assault than heterosexuals: survey
A Statistics Canada study says gay, lesbian, bisexual and other sexual minority people are nearly three times more likely than heterosexuals to experience sexual or physical assaul...
Sep 09, 2020
Clayton looking to secure trainer Kevin Attard his first Queen's Plate win
TORONTO - Clayton will head into the $1-million Queen's Plate on Saturday a little under the radar and trainer Kevin Attard is good with it. Filly Curlin's Voyage has garnered plenty of attention...
Sep 09, 2020
Oscars set inclusion standards for best picture category
In an historic move, the Oscars are raising the inclusion bar for best picture nominees starting with the 96th Academy Awards in 2024. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday laid o...
Sep 09, 2020
Trudeau announces cash for loans, support to Black Canadian entrepreneurs
OTTAWA - The federal government is creating a new national program to help Black Canadians get business loans with national banks. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the COVID-19 pandemic has dispropo...
Sep 09, 2020
Weapons, drugs, cash seized from Cypress County property
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Three crossbows and nine firearms were among the weapons seized by ALERT from a rural property east of Medicine Hat last week.Five people were arrested and police also seized drugs,...
Sep 09, 2020
Canadian rider Michael Woods wins Stage 3 of Tirreno-Adriatico, takes race lead
SATURNIA, Italy - Powering up a climb so steep that bystanders gave riders helping pushes, Canadian Michael Woods won Stage 3 of the Tirreno-Adriatico on Wednesday and took the overall lead. Woods, wh...
Sep 09, 2020
U.S. job postings rise to 6.6 million in July
WASHINGTON - U.S. employers advertised more jobs but hired fewer workers in July, sending mixed signals about the job market in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The Labor Department said Wednesda...
Sep 09, 2020
Biden visits manufacturing heartland to curry favour with blue-collar voters
WASHINGTON - Joe Biden is in America's manufacturing heartland today to hammer home how he would keep blue-collar jobs and investment on U.S. soil. The Democratic party's presidential nomine...
Sep 09, 2020