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Tough day for PCFAC teams, Midget AA season ends
The 2019-20 season came to an end on Saturday for two local rep hockey teams. The Bonnett's PCFAC Female Bantam Elite Storm dropped a 3-2 decision to Sherwood Park to fall in two straight games in the...
Mar 08, 2020
Coal miner Teck baffled by fish collapse downstream of British Columbia mines
Teck Resources says it's baffled over the virtual disappearance of a rare fish from a lengthy stretch of a long-contaminated river downstream from the company's coal-mining operations in southeastern&...
Mar 08, 2020
Online threats, racism causing fear for Indigenous women: MMIWG commissioner
Michele Audette feels disappointed when she looks online and sees a barrage of violent threats towards Indigenous women. "It made me so mad that we tolerate this. There's no real ... reprimand," ...
Mar 08, 2020
Canada added 30,300 jobs in February, unemployment rate 5.6 per cent
OTTAWA - The unemployment rate in Canada nudged up a tenth of a percentage point to 5.6 per cent as the economy added 30,300 net new jobs in February, Statistics Canada said Friday, beating expectatio...
Mar 08, 2020
US job market looked robust before virus outbreak escalated
WASHINGTON - Hiring in the United States jumped in February as employers added 273,000 positions, evidence that the job market was in strong shape before the coronavirus began to sweep through the nat...
Mar 08, 2020
Morneau says Ottawa will announce support for those quarantined due to COVID-19
The federal government will provide financial help for quarantined Canadians over novel coronavirus concerns, and pad its budget contingency should the economic hit be prolonged and deep, Finance Mini...
Mar 08, 2020
Saudis' arrest of 2 princes called a warning to royal family
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia's King Salman was shown in state media Sunday in apparent good health and working, just days after the arrest of two senior princes triggered speculation abo...
Mar 08, 2020
2020 Arctic Winter Games cancelled over Coronavirus concerns
Athletes from Grande Prairie and other Peace region communities that qualified for this year's Arctic Winter Games will not be heading to Whitehorse after all. Concerns over the Coronavirus have led o...
Mar 08, 2020
Tunisia: Suicide bombers near US Embassy kill, injure police
TUNIS, Tunisia - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia on Friday, killing one police officer and wounding four others, the Interior Ministry said. Lawmaker Yosri Dali...
Mar 08, 2020
Occupant restraints and residential parking focuses of this month's BEEP/STEP
For the month of March, City Enforcement Services will be focused on occupant restraints for its Selected Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP).Any person 16 years of age or older is responsible for wear...
Mar 08, 2020 Occupant restraints are the focus for the City's Selected Traffic Enforcement Program.