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MONTREAL - The Quebec Council of Hasidic Jews is heading to court to challenge the province's COVID-19 curfew, which it says will impede religious rights after daylight time comes into effect Sunday. ...

A drug trafficking investigation in Grande Prairie has led to charges against two city residents, as well as the seizure of drugs and firearms.Grande Prairie RCMP, alongside help from ALERT Grande Pra...

OTTAWA - Health Canada's chief medical adviser says there is no scientific explanation to suggest a link between the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and blood clots.Dr. Supriya Sharma says Health ...

NEW YORK - An investigation into the official response to Daniel Prude's police suffocation death last year in Rochester, New York, is faulting the city's mayor and former police chief for keeping cri...

RE, Sweden - Petra Vlhova is back on course to become the first Slovakian to win skiing's overall World Cup title. Vlhova defended her first-run advantage in a slalom to claim her 20th career victory ...

Policy A former Beaverlodge rancher is one of 23 people recently named to the federal government's Food Policy Advisory Council.Brenda Schoepp will help the government come up with a new food policy f...

Data from Statistics Canada shows the unemployment rate for the economic region that includes Grande Prairie dropped to 9.8 per cent in February .The rate for Banff-Jasper-Rocky Mountain House and Ath...

LAGOS, Nigeria - Gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped at least 30 students just weeks after a similar attack in the region, authorities said Friday. The latest abduction...

OTTAWA - The federal minister of agriculture says Canada is an important step closer to being recognized as a negligible-risk country for mad cow disease. Marie-Claude Bibeau says in a news release th...

NEW YORK - Pedro Almodvar exposed all his vulnerability in the semi-autobiographical film "Pain and Glory." Now he returns his focus to women not only with the short film "The Human Voice", an Oscar h...