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Bow Island woman, children found safe after being reported missing
Mounties who were looking for a woman and her three children in southern Alberta say the family has been found safe.Bow Island RCMP asked for help Tuesday in finding the 41-year-old woman and her chil...
Dec 02, 2020
“Beam me app”: Star Trek’s Capt. Kirk urges Alberta to adopt federal COVID tracer
EDMONTON - Capt. James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, in violation of Starfleet's Prime Directive, is questioning the intelligence of Alberta-based life forms over their COVID-19 contact tracing ...
Dec 02, 2020
'My God, we're scared': Serial attacks put a suburb on edge
WALTHAM, Mass. - The attacks come after dark, without warning, usually from behind. The victims, all men, are hit so hard on the head with some sort of blunt object that they are often knocked to the ...
Dec 02, 2020
COVID-19 case confirmed at Harry Balfour School
The Peace Wapiti Public School Division says a case of COVID-19 has been confirmed at Harry Balfour School in Grande Prairie. The division says in a news release issued Wednesday that families and sta...
Dec 02, 2020
Fed and Treasury urge Congress to approve more virus relief
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged Congress to approve COVID-19 relief funds without further delay, though Democrats continued to attack a ...
Dec 02, 2020
Half of people living in territories assaulted at least once after age 15: survey
EDMONTON - More than half of women and men living in Canada's territories reported being victims of at least one sexual or physical assault after their mid-teens. Statistics Canada says there were few...
Dec 02, 2020
Hamilton's Forge FC headed to Honduras next in CONCACAF Champions League quest
Hamilton's Forge FC is headed to Honduras for another attempt to secure a berth in the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League, the confederation's top-tier club competition. The Canadian Premier League ...
Dec 02, 2020
Refugee advocates criticize Canada's decision to resume deportations during COVID-19
MONTREAL - Refugee advocates are criticizing Canada's decision to resume deportations before the country irons out the details of a program to grant permanent residency to asylum-seekers who have been...
Dec 02, 2020
Boil-water advisories at First Nations communities to remain past March 2021: feds
OTTAWA - The federal government says it will not meet a marquee pledge by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to lift all boil-water advisories in First Nations communities by March 2021. Indigenous Service...
Dec 02, 2020
Sliding into a new sport: CFLers turn to bobsled after football season wiped out
Montreal Alouettes running back Shaquille Murray-Lawrence is used to psyching himself up to sprint down a field, evading a crush of muscled men the entire way. But mentally preparing for his latest ve...
Dec 02, 2020