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Canada ends pre-FIBA World Cup schedule with tough 84-68 loss to United States
SYDNEY, Australia - Canada men's basketball coach Nick Nurse says his team needs to "flush" its last exhibition performance after ending World Cup preparations with an ugly 84-68 loss to the Unit...
Aug 28, 2019
Sections of TWP. Rd. 730, Range Road 125 now under construction
Two more road projects are underway in the County of Grande Prairie.Grading work has started on a section of Township Road 730 between Range Roads 63 and 64. Work there involves digging out the existi...
Aug 28, 2019
Overdose Awareness Day returns to Grande Prairie
Grande Prairie's Overdose Awareness Day will happen today.The day aims to increase awareness and understanding of overdoses and reduce the stigma of a drug-related death, specifically the opioid crisi...
Aug 28, 2019
This time, Trudeau keeps low profile at G7 as election campaign looms
BIARRITZ, France - He may have spent the weekend an ocean away from home, rubbing elbows with world leaders during tense talks on international crises, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
Aug 28, 2019
Hong Kong: Split emerges in Chinese-Canadian community amid protests
VANCOUVER - Images of police using rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters in Hong Kong in early June spurred Joel Wan to pick up the phone and call the United Nations human rights office from ...
Aug 28, 2019
Epstein accuser says Prince Andrew should 'come clean'
LONDON - One of the many women who have accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse has kept Britain's Prince Andrew uncomfortably at the centre of the ongoing investigation. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, spe...
Aug 28, 2019
Toyota, Suzuki partnering in self-driving car technology
TOKYO - Japan's top automaker, Toyota, and smaller rival Suzuki are partnering in the development of self-driving car technology, as manufacturers around the world grapple with innovations in the indu...
Aug 28, 2019
Iran says oil on tanker pursued by US sold; buyer unnamed
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Monday announced that the 2.1 million barrels of crude aboard an Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. has been sold to an unnamed buyer as the ship, at the centre of a crisis ...
Aug 28, 2019
In the news today, Aug. 28
Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 28 --- FIRST INTERIOR SHOTS OF HMS TERROR RELEASED Parks Canada has released the first pictures from inside the HMS Terror, one of the two sh...
Aug 28, 2019
'A solemn space': first interior shots of Franklin's HMS Terror released
It remains, despite nearly two centuries beneath the Arctic seas, amazingly shipshape. First pictures from inside the HMS Terror, part of the doomed Franklin Expedition, show tidy rows of crockery, ne...
Aug 28, 2019