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Manitoba premier says grain-drying would be exempt from a Manitoba carbon tax
BRANDON, Man. - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is pitching his plan for a carbon tax to agricultural producers as a much better alternative than the current federal one. Pallister told an agricultur...
Jan 21, 2020
Malaysia returns 150 containers of garbage, including 11 to Canada
OTTAWA - Malaysia says it returned 11 shipping containers of plastic garbage to Canada after they arrived on its shores illegally last year. But Canadian officials, citing privacy laws, refu...
Jan 21, 2020
Public's assistance needed in hit and run case
Grande Prairie RCMP are asking for the public's help in locating a suspect in a hit and run incident.Shortly after 10 p.m. on Saturday, January 11, officers responded to a report of a collision on 94 ...
Jan 21, 2020
NewsAlert: Jean Charest won't seek Tory leadership
MONTREAL - Former Quebec premier Jean Charest has decided not to seek the federal Conservative leadership. In an interview with Radio-Canada today, he says the odds are stacked against someone from ou...
Jan 21, 2020
US gets 1st case of mysterious new Chinese illness
SEATTLE - A U .S. citizen who recently returned from a trip to central China has been diagnosed with the new virus that has sparked an outbreak and stringent monitoring around the world. The man retur...
Jan 21, 2020
Family skating rink to open next to Montrose Cultural Centre
The field next to the Montrose Cultural Centre will soon be home to a temporary ice rink. The field has been plowed and is set to be flooded and usable within a week. Arlen Miller, Community Services ...
Jan 21, 2020 The City will be opening a skating rink in the field at the Montrose Cultural Centre (Photo: Shaun Penner)
Canadian baseball star Walker believes he'll come up shot in Hall of Fame vote
Former Colorado Rockies and Montreal Expos star slugger Larry Walker says he doesn't expect to be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday night. The native of Maple Ridge, B.C., is in h...
Jan 21, 2020
Lawyer says 'loving' emails' are key to Weinstein defence
NEW YORK - Defence lawyers want to use a trove of intimate email correspondence between Harvey Weinstein and his accusers to try to convince a jury that any contact was consensual, one of the attorney...
Jan 21, 2020
Violence in northern Syria kills 17, including whole family
BEIRUT - Airstrikes on rebel-held parts of northwestern Syria and the shelling of government-held areas killed at least 17 people Tuesday, including an entire family, Syrian opposition activists said....
Jan 21, 2020
Phoenix police: 3 children found dead, mother arrested
PHOENIX - A Phoenix woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing her three children, who were found dead inside the family home, authorities said Tuesday. The 22-year-old mother, whose name has not...
Jan 21, 2020