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EDMONTON - Alberta is bringing in new rules to ensure that foreign-trained professionals get speedy action as they seek to get accreditation to work.Labour Minister Jason Copping says too many newcome...

Make it seven wins in a row for the County Brewers.They were able to add to their lead atop the Wheatbelt Baseball League standings with an 11-6 win over the Grimshaw Huskies last night in Rycroft.The...

An eight-hour evacuation alert for Canyon Creek and Widewater has been lifted. A nearby wildfire that started Monday was declared under control today. It burned a little over 15 hectares. An evacuatio...

OTTAWA - Canada's response to the conclusions of the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls should include some form of redress for the victims and their families, says the Unite...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A young Newfoundland man who robbed a human skull from a cemetery and kept it in his possession for more than a year as a "curiosity item" has been sentenced to four months in&...

THOMPSON, Man. - The manslaughter trial of an RCMP officer in northern Manitoba heard a man was shot at least nine times by the constable. Const. Abram Letkeman is on trial for the 2015 death of Steve...

SURREY, B.C. - The BC Prosecution Service says it won't pursue a charge of uttering threats against the man who sparked a political firestorm when he attended an event during Prime Minister ...

OTTAWA - Parliament's spending watchdog is putting new numbers to the cost of matching recent U.S. business-tax changes, pegging the price to the federal treasury at more than double government e...

CALGARY - A trial for a man charged in the death of his grandson has heard recordings of what appear to be the accused praying for forgiveness. Allan Perdomo Lopez is charged with ...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says he is moving up the next provincial election by more than a year. The next vote was scheduled for October 2020, but Pallister has set the day...