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Trump halts COVID-19 relief talks until after election
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has instructed aides to stop negotiating on another round of COVID-19 relief until after the election. Trump tweeted that House Speaker Nancy P...
Oct 06, 2020
Old-time harvest held near Grovedale
A big crew came out to a farm west of Grovedale on September 30 for an old-fashioned harvest.Stooks from 10 acres of oats grown on the Jim and Diane Lofstrom farm were gathered and hauled with a horse...
Oct 06, 2020
'Why did it happen?' Sons of woman killed in 1997 crash want answers from Scott Moe
The sound of his mother's dying breath still haunts him. It was a May morning in 1997. Steve Balog was 18 and sitting beside his mother as she drove down a rural Saskatchewan highway when their ...
Oct 06, 2020
Wolverines Adapted Sports Association set to reboot operations
For the first time since March 13, the Grande Prairie Wolverines Adapted Sports Association (formerly known as the Wolverines Wheelchair Sports Association) has been given the green light to start ope...
Oct 06, 2020
Man who was subject of wife's appeal in Nova Scotia assisted death case dies
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia man whose wife tried to stop his medically assisted death in court has died in hospital. According to his obituary posted on a funeral home website, 83-year-old Jack Eugene Sor...
Oct 06, 2020
Mayor Kennedy Stewart proposes $30-million recommendation to help Vancouver homeless
VANCOUVER - Mayor Kennedy Stewart wants councillors to support a multimillion-dollar proposal to help those who are homeless in Vancouver during the pandemic. Stewart has released a recommendation to ...
Oct 06, 2020
Wildfire near Banff “out of control,” state of local emergency declared
BANFF, AB - A wildfire northeast of Banff is no longer classified as being held.Early Monday, the Devil's Head fire had only burned approximately 600 hectares of land and it was not expected to grow a...
Oct 06, 2020
Changes to community group funding approved to align with City Council's strategic priorities
Grande Prairie City Council has approved changes to the policy on community group funding, which are intended to give more clear direction to council and community groups alike, while also reducing ad...
Oct 06, 2020
Scott Moe apologizes on campaign trail to family of woman killed in his 1997 crash
SASKATOON - Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe has publicly apologized to the family of a woman killed in a 1997 highway crash he was involved in. The apology came during a campaign stop in Saskatoon...
Oct 06, 2020
Quebec Premier Francois Legault to formally apologize to Joyce Echaquan's family
Quebec Premier Francois Legault says he will present an official apology today to the family of an Indigenous woman who filmed staff insulting her as she lay dying in a hospital northeast of Montreal ...
Oct 06, 2020