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Saskatchewan First Nation locks down after COVID cases spread from religious meetings
REGINA - A northern Saskatchewan First Nation has been locked down and its schools closed over concerns of COVID-19 transmission following a series of religious services where participants were unmask...
Oct 08, 2020
Grande Prairie Downtown Association unveils plans for annual Halloween festivities
The Grande Prairie Downtown Association is not letting COVID-19 stifle their desire to put on their annual Halloween Walking Parade.The event, in previous years, would take place mostly indoors and wo...
Oct 08, 2020
ATB says it’ll be a few years before Alberta’s GDP is back to pre-pandemic levels
A new economic report forecasts Alberta's real GDP to grow by about 3.3 per cent in 2021, but that it will take a few years for it to return to pre-pandemic levels.ATB Financial's Alberta Economic Out...
Oct 08, 2020
Toronto FC goalkeeper Alex Bono shows class and maturity after record win
It was hard to see if Alex Bono was smiling under his face mask this week after entering the Toronto FC record book with his 29th career shutout and 52nd victory. But his class was hard to miss. As wa...
Oct 08, 2020
Tensions rise as virus cases surge in Wisconsin, Dakotas
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A surge of coronavirus cases in Wisconsin and the Dakotas is forcing a scramble for hospital beds and raising political tensions, as the Upper Midwest and Plains emerge as one of t...
Oct 08, 2020
Mali: 2 hostages freed by extremists on plane to capital
BAMAKO, Mali - Malis's presidency confirmed Thursday that prominent Malian politician Soumaila Cisse and French aid worker Sophie Petronin are aboard a flight to the capital, Bamako, after being freed...
Oct 08, 2020
Spruce Grove elevator named Provincial Historic Resource
The old Alberta Wheat Pool elevator in Spruce Grove has been designated a Provincial Historic Resource.The province says in a release it is being recognized for its importance in Alberta history as it...
Oct 08, 2020
NHL teams, players primed for uncertain free-agency period amid pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a long list of unknowns and worries across society. Questions thought unimaginable just seven months ago - about health, jobs and the economy - are now being asked on...
Oct 08, 2020
Miller to discuss racism in health care with Indigenous leaders as COVID cases rise
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says he's convening a high-level meeting with Indigenous leaders to tackle systematic racism in health care as communities brace for the second wave o...
Oct 08, 2020
Prominent GOP fundraiser charged in covert lobbying effort
WASHINGTON - Elliott Broidy, a fundraiser for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, has been charged in an illicit lobbying campaign aimed at getting the Trump administration to drop an inv...
Oct 08, 2020