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Freedom means more this year: how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing Passover
OTTAWA - There's a question asked each year by Jews as they begin the Passover holiday: "Why is this night different?" It's asked as a way into the telling of the Passover story, an ancient tale ...
Apr 07, 2020
4-H extends event suspensions date
4-H Alberta says all sanctioned activities have been suspended through May 31. That includes everything at the club, district, regional, and provincial levels.4-H Alberta says in a statement on its Fa...
Apr 07, 2020 from the $-H Alberta Facebook page
2020 Wanham Plowing Match cancelled
The Directors of the Wanham Plowing Match says this year's edition has been cancelled.The announcement is contained in a post on the Match's Facebook page.The post says this was "a very difficult deci...
Apr 07, 2020 from the Wanham Plowing Match Facebook page
Wickenheiser plea for PPE, with Ryan Reynolds assist, scores big donations
Hayley Wickenheiser saw what was coming and heard the fears of friends on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her medical training in Toronto on pause while her teachers join the battle, the Hoc...
Apr 07, 2020
Boris Johnson will 'fight' COVID-19 and has what it takes to recover: envoy
OTTAWA - Britain's envoy to Canada says Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a fighter who has what it takes to recover from his COVID-19 affliction. High Commissioner Susan le Jeune d'Allegeershecque tell...
Apr 07, 2020
Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools donate iPads to Palliative Care Society
The patients of the Grande Prairie Palliative Care Society will benefit from a donation of 30 iPads from the Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools. Visitors are not currently allowed in hospita...
Apr 07, 2020 Superintendent Karl Germann sits next to the iPads that are being donated to the Palliative Care Society (photo courtesy of Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools)
Russia flatly denies US allegation of World Cup bid bribes
GENEVA - Russian officials on Tuesday flatly denied bribing a FIFA voter with millions of dollars to support the country's winning 2018 World Cup bid, after American prosecutors revealed new details a...
Apr 07, 2020
Trudeau says details coming soon on help for households to access credit
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is raising anew his government's promise to help hard-hit Canadians more easily access credit by leaning on the nation's banks to do more than reduce credit...
Apr 07, 2020
Group of First Nations want Supreme Court to hear appeal on Trans Mountain
VANCOUVER - A group of British Columbia First Nations is seeking to challenge the federal government's second approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in Canada's highest court. The S...
Apr 07, 2020
Explainer: what to expect if a Canadian prime minister is too sick to do the job
OTTAWA - The day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's wife was revealed to have COVID-19, cabinet agreed that Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland would be next in line if Trudeau could not&n...
Apr 07, 2020