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Alberta moves to strengthen legislation before proposed opioid class-action lawsuit
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has introduced updated legislation that it says would help make sure anyone who contributed to the opioid addiction crisis is held responsible.Dan Williams, the minis...
Oct 31, 2023
Freeland to meet with provincial finance ministers on possible Alberta CPP withdrawal
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she will meet provincial and territorial finance ministers later this week to discuss the possibility of Alberta's withdrawal from the Canada Pension P...
Oct 31, 2023
B.C.-based Helijet orders first electric vertical-takeoff aircraft
VICTORIA - A British Columbia helicopter airline says it's placed Canada's first order for an electric vertical-takeoff aircraft to add to its passenger and cargo fleet. Helijet International presiden...
Oct 31, 2023
Natalee Holloway’s confessed killer returns to Peru to serve out sentence in another murder
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A Dutchman who recently confessed to killing American high school student Natalee Holloway in 2005 in Aruba was returned to Peru on Tuesday to serve the remainder of his prison sente...
Oct 31, 2023
Natalee Holloway’s confessed killer returns to Peru to serve out sentence in another murder
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A Dutchman who recently confessed to killing American high school student Natalee Holloway in 2005 in Aruba was returned to Peru on Tuesday to serve the remainder of his prison sente...
Oct 31, 2023
Maine gunman may have targeted businesses over delusions they were disparaging him online
Maine State Police documents released Tuesday shed light on why a delusional U.S. Army reservist who killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston may have targeted those locations. State ...
Oct 31, 2023
Woking shooter competes at Pan Am Games
Woking's Liz Gustafson competed for Canada in the shooting competition at the Pan Am Games in Santiago, Chile.Gustafson did not make the medal round in the women's 25-metre air pistol category.She tie...
Oct 31, 2023
Surging Einarson rocks New Zealand at Pan Continental Curling Championships
KELOWNA, B.C. - Kerri Einarson made Halloween extra scary for her New Zealand opponents on Tuesday at the Pan Continental Curling Championships at Kelowna Curling Club. The skip from Gimli, Man., hoar...
Oct 31, 2023
Missouri appeals court rules against ballot summary language that described 'dangerous' abortions
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday ruled against Republican-written summaries that described several abortion-rights amendments as allowing "dangerous and unregulated abortions u...
Oct 31, 2023
One man recovering, 16 containers retrieved in Iqaluit port following fall
IQALUIT, Nunavut - A shipping company serving the Far North says an employee is recovering in an Ottawa hospital after he and almost two dozen containers fell into the water near Nunavut's capital on ...
Oct 31, 2023