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Construction date and royalty grants announced for $2-billion project south of city
Nauticol Energy says construction of the first phase of a new, methanol plant near Grande Prairie will start in 2020. Premier Rachel Notley was in Grande Prairie for the announcement today. "As we fig...
Feb 20, 2019
Chris Stapleton, Dan + Shay lead ACM nominations
NASHVILLE - Chris Stapleton and Dan + Shay lead the 54th Academy of Country Music Awards with six nominations each while Grammy album of the year winner Kacey Musgraves comes in with five nominations....
Feb 20, 2019
Pope strives to fight cleric sex abuse with Vatican summit
VATICAN CITY - If Pope Francis needed a concrete example to justify summoning church leaders from around the globe to Rome for a tutorial on clergy sex abuse, Sister Bernardine Pemii has it. The nun, ...
Feb 20, 2019
Border wall, bullet train: California vs. Trump escalates
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Disputes over President Donald Trump’s border wall and California’s bullet train are intensifying the feud between the White House and the nation’s most populous...
Feb 20, 2019
Final Crown witnesses to take stand in Oland trial as prosecutors near end
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Legal arguments dominated the second-degree murder trial of Dennis Oland on Wednesday and led to an early adjournment before a key prosecution witness could take the stand. Crown pr...
Feb 20, 2019
Scheidegger improves to 5-1 at the Scotties
Team Scheidegger has won 3 straight at the 2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Wednesday morning, they claimed a 7-3 win over New Brunswick. With the win, Scheidegger’s rink improves to 5-1 and ...
Feb 20, 2019
Trudeau takes personal hit amid SNC-Lavalin controversy: Leger poll for CP
OTTAWA - A new poll conducted by Leger for The Canadian Press shows that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking a personal hit in the SNC-Lavalin controversy. Overall, 41 per cent of respondents beli...
Feb 20, 2019
Canada's Denis Shapovalov bounced in second round at Open 13 Provence
MARSEILLE, France - Canada’s Denis Shapovalov was bounced from the second round of the Open 13 Provence tennis tournament with a 6-4, 7-6 (4) loss to Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Kukushkin. Shapov...
Feb 20, 2019
UK politics fractures further as 3 Conservatives defect
LONDON - Brexit-driven cracks in Britain’s political party system yawned wider Wednesday, as three pro-European lawmakers quit the ruling Conservatives to join a new centrist group of independen...
Feb 20, 2019
Police: Man says he stole Pepsi truck to get to the airport
TULSA, Okla. - Authorities say an Oklahoma man stole a Pepsi truck as the driver was unloading soda in the back. Tulsa police say no one was hurt. The driver jumped out of the back when he felt his ri...
Feb 20, 2019