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Jays president won't set specific timelines for when team may contend again
Baseball prognasticators are predicting pain for the 2019 edition of the Toronto Blue Jays. What remains unclear is whether the team’s off-season teardown might result in a short-term malaise or...
Mar 12, 2019
Woman clinging to life after avalanche near Field B.C
A woman is hanging on to life in a Calgary hospital after suffering critical injuries during an avalanche near Field, B-C. Parks Canada says the slide happened yesterday as a group was ice-climbing in...
Mar 12, 2019
Video shows four suspects of nationwide bitcoin scam
Calgary police have released security video images of four suspects in a nationwide bitcoin fraud. Police say they have received information that about 112 fraudulent transactions were made at bitcoin...
Mar 12, 2019
Kenney promising to repeal workplace health and safety rules for farmers
Jason Kenney is promising to replace legislation that extends workplace health and safety rules to farms in Alberta if the United Conservative Party wins the spring election. Kenney says the N-D-P gov...
Mar 12, 2019
Ronaldo nets hat trick to send Juventus into CL quarters
TURIN, Italy - Cristiano Ronaldo made a mockery of Atletico Madrid’s vaunted defence, and then mocked its coach as well. Ronaldo scored a hat trick against the normally resilient Spanish side to...
Mar 12, 2019
First Nation's community pleased with new park announcement
An Alberta First Nation is applauding the announcement of a new 1,600-square kilometre wildland park in the province. The park links and expands two previously announced parks buffering Wood Buffalo N...
Mar 12, 2019
BC man charged after explosions at Edmonton banks last year
A B.C. man faces multiple charges in connection with two explosions at Edmonton banks last year. No one was injured after an improvised explosive device was detonated in the vestibule of a bank last S...
Mar 12, 2019
Provincial government putting $100 million into green transportation projects
Alberta is ponying up $100 million to kick-start new green transportation projects, including a truck that can drive long distances while delivering net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. The truck projec...
Mar 12, 2019
Ottawa contributing $166 million for expansion of Calgary convention centre
The federal government will help bankroll the expansion of the largest convention centre in Calgary. Ottawa says it will contribute $166.6 million toward a project that aims to more than double the si...
Mar 12, 2019
Canadians Andreescu, Shapovalov notch upsets at Indian Wells
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. - Canada’s contingent of tennis teenagers is continuing to make waves in the California desert. Wild card Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., continued her dream run at t...
Mar 12, 2019