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Grimshaw workplace accident leaves one person dead
Occupational Health and Safety is investigating after a workplace accident in Grimshaw left one worker dead. Alberta Labour Spokesman Trent Bancarz says two workers were putting up a chain-link fence ...
Oct 23, 2017
Beaverlodge RCMP to operate as stand-alone detachment
The Beaverlodge RCMP Detachment will officially operate as a stand-alone Detachment as of December 1, 2017. Chief Superintendent John Ferguson says the decision to separate from the Grande Prairie Det...
Oct 23, 2017
Dalhousie under fire for probing student leader, 'censoring' political speech
HALIFAX - Dalhousie University is facing scrutiny for investigating a student leader’s polarizing social media comments as a group of law professors and a civil liberties group accuse the univer...
Oct 23, 2017
4 in 10 say if interest rates rise they could be in financial trouble: poll
TORONTO - Four in 10 Canadians say that if interest rates rise any further they fear they will be in financial trouble, a new poll suggests. The survey conducted for insolvency firm MNP Ltd. also foun...
Oct 23, 2017
Britain to give Canada the shipwrecks of explorer John Franklin
OTTAWA - Canada is thanking Great Britain for the gift of two shipwrecks once commanded by John Franklin that lie at the heart of one of this country’s most compelling Arctic myths. “I wou...
Oct 23, 2017
Trump's candidate stirs no love in Virginia's Trump country
POUND, Va. - People in Virginia’s coal country still love President Donald Trump, but not his pick to be their next governor. Ed Gillespie is a Washington insider and Trump’s choice as Vir...
Oct 23, 2017
Trump, Abe set golf date for start of US leader's Asia tour
TOKYO - Donald Trump will start his first trip to Asia as president next month in somewhat predictable fashion: with a round of golf. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Trump in a phone call Monday that a...
Oct 23, 2017
Who killed Kim Jong Un's half brother? Here's what we know
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Eight months after the audacious assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s estranged half brother, a Malaysian court is trying to unweave a complicated web of d...
Oct 23, 2017
In response to far right, LGBTQ gun group hits firing line
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The former pacifist pumped a shotgun at the firing line. Lore McSpadden never touched a gun before the Trigger Warning Queer & Trans Gun Club started this past year. Now McSpadde...
Oct 23, 2017
Murder trial starts for man who stoked US immigration debate
SAN FRANCISCO - A Mexican national who touched off a debate on illegal immigration when he fatally shot a woman on a San Francisco pier fired the gun on purpose, a prosecutor said Monday in her openin...
Oct 23, 2017