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Winter driving and sidewalk clearing focuses of December's STEP and BEEP
Enforcement services will be focusing on winter driving for December's Selected Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP), and Sidewalk Clearing for the month's Bylaw Enforcement Education Program (BEEP).Ser...
Dec 05, 2019

Supreme Court rejects appeal from man convicted of killing two Alberta seniors
The case of an Alberta man convicted of killing two Edmonton-area seniors will not be argued before Canada's highest court.The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Travis Vader, who was gi...
Dec 05, 2019

Volunteers desperately needed for Salvation Army Christmas Kettle campaign
The Salvation Army in Grande Prairie is calling for volunteers to help with the annual Christmas Kettle campaign.The not-for-profit is using the fundraiser to support programs and services operated in...
Dec 05, 2019 Betty Steel (L) and Gerrie Schubert (R) volunteering at the Christmas Kettle at the Co-Op

Consensus comes 30 years later that Montreal massacre was an anti-feminist act
MONTREAL - Thirty years after the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, official acknowledgment has come that what happened on Dec. 6, 1989 at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique was an attack on f...
Dec 05, 2019

Snowbirds aerobatics team returns to full operations after crash in U.S.
OTTAWA - The Canadian military's Snowbirds aerobatics team is returning to full operations after a crash grounded the planes in the U.S. for more than a month. Military investigators are still trying ...
Dec 05, 2019

Storm look to continue building momentum against Czech Republic
Following a weekend sweep of one of the top teams in the AJHL, the Spruce Grove Saints. The Grande Prairie Storm will look to continue to build momentum as they play a quick exhibition match against t...
Dec 05, 2019 Storm playing the Spruce Grove Saints.

BC Peace cowboy competing at NFR
A Peace Region cowboy will be among those competing when the National Finals Rodeo starts Thursday night in Las Vegas.Hudson's Hope saddle bronc rider Jake Watson goes into the NFR eighth in the Profe...
Dec 05, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith

Manitoba NDP seek honorary premier title for Louis Riel
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Opposition wants to give the title of honorary first premier to Metis leader Louis Riel. NDP Leader Wab Kinew has put forward a private member's bill that would bestow ...
Dec 05, 2019

Chinese ambassador warns Canada against adopting motion calling for sanctions
MONTREAL - China's ambassador to Canada is threatening what he called "very firm countermeasures" should Parliament adopt a motion calling for sanctions against Chinese leaders. Ambassador P...
Dec 05, 2019

Cale Makar making early run at Calder Trophy: 'I haven't seen anybody like him'
TORONTO - It was pointed out to Cale Makar back in September he didn't seem at all daunted by sky-high expectations. The defenceman had announced his arrival in the NHL some five months...
Dec 05, 2019