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Local purple loader helping plow snow in support of Stollery Children's Hospital
Smash & Sons Contracting in Grande Prairie is clearing snow in support of the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation using their customly painted purple loader. For every hour "Snowbell" the purp...
Feb 14, 2022
Emergencies Act could freeze protest trucks out of area around Parliament Hill
OTTAWA - Invoking the Emergencies Act could allow the federal government to forbid more large trucks from rolling into the gridlocked area around Parliament Hill. Security expert Wesley Wark says decl...
Feb 14, 2022
RCMP arrest 11 Coutts protesters on weapons-related charges
COUTTS, AB - Nearly a dozen protesters near the Coutts border were arrested early Monday morning.RCMP says they became aware of a small organized group within the larger convoy who had access to a cac...
Feb 14, 2022
Christian Eriksen marks 30th birthday by playing game again
LONDON (AP) - Christian Eriksen celebrated his 30th birthday on Monday with his first game action since suffering cardiac arrest at the European Championship. The Denmark playmaker featured in a pract...
Feb 14, 2022
Ontario fast-tracks easing restrictions, Sask starts day without vaccine mandate
Ontario ramped up plans to drop a raft of COVID-19 restrictions, including the province's vaccine certificate system, while Alberta schools opened Monday without mask mandates for children. Saskatchew...
Feb 14, 2022
Ottawa mayor pushes to shrink convoy footprint, as feds eye action
Ottawa's mayor has set a deadline of noon today for truckers encamped in the capital's core to move out of residential streets in a bid to pare down the size of the protest's footprint. Mayor Jim Wats...
Feb 14, 2022
Altidore departure from Toronto and arrival in New England finally confirmed
TORONTO - After months in limbo with Toronto FC, star striker Jozy Altidore's move to the New England Revolution was finally confirmed Monday. One minute after TFC issued a statement saying it had bou...
Feb 14, 2022
Jury seated in hate crimes trial in Ahmaud Arbery killing
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A jury has been seated in the federal hate crimes trial of three white men who were convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. Twelve jurors and four alternates were selected Monday fr...
Feb 14, 2022
UPDATE: Resources Road between 97 Avenue and 99 Avenue reopened after train derailment
UPDATE: Traffic is back up and running between 99 Avenue and 97 Avenue, as well as 99 Street between 99 Avenue and 97 Avenue.The Grande Prairie RCMP and CN rail are currently on the scene of a train d...
Feb 14, 2022
Democrats sue to overturn new Kansas congressional districts
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Democrats sued Kansas officials on Monday over a Republican redistricting law that costs the state's only Democrat in Congress some of the territory in her Kansas City-area distric...
Feb 14, 2022