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Veterans warned of longer wait times due to federal public service strike
OTTAWA - Ill and injured veterans are being warned they could face longer-than-expected wait times in accessing certain benefits and services due to the federal public service strike. Veterans Affairs...
Apr 21, 2023
Bergeron doesn't travel with Bruins for games in Florida
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Boston captain Patrice Bergeron did not accompany the Bruins on their trip to Florida for Games 3 and 4 of an Eastern Conference first-round series with the Panthers. He missed Ga...
Apr 21, 2023
County of Grande Prairie finalizes 2023 budget
Residents in the County of Grande Prairie will not see any increases to the municipal tax rate portion of their taxes.County council finalized its budget for 2023 this week, which Reeve Bob Marshall s...
Apr 21, 2023
Discredited Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond voluntarily returns another honorary degree
FREDERICTON - Former judge and law professor Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, whose claims of Indigenous ancestry have been discredited, has returned another honorary degree. A statement from Kim Fenwick, th...
Apr 21, 2023
Vancouver officer testifies about efforts to resuscitate Myles Gray after beating
BURNABY, B.C. - A Vancouver police officer told a coroner's inquest that "time was standing still" as they waited for advanced life support paramedics to arrive and help revive 33-year-old Myles Gray ...
Apr 21, 2023
Two people injured at Dene High School in La Loche, Sask., one in custody
LA LOCHE, Sask. - Two people have been injured at Dene High School in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Loche. The Northern Lights School Division says the two individuals are being treated an...
Apr 21, 2023
Frequent shootings put US mass killings on a record pace
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The U.S. is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023, replaying the horror on a loop roughly once a week so far this year. The carnage has taken 88 lives in 17 mass killings ...
Apr 21, 2023
Beaverlodge RCMP warn public about paving scams
After receiving a report of a scam from a local resident in Beaverlodge on April 14, RCMP are wanting to inform the public on what to look for in paving scams. The investigation is underway and the re...
Apr 21, 2023
'Very difficult situation:' Canadians in Khartoum take shelter amid violence
TORONTO - Abdelgadir Eltayeb and his family have no electricity, dwindling food and water, and haven't been able to venture far from the home in Khartoum where they took shelter after violence explode...
Apr 21, 2023
Province providing funding to support rehabilitation and therapy for veterans
EDMONTON, AB - The Alberta government has committed to supporting rehabilitation and therapy for veterans through research at the University of Alberta (U of A).The province is providing $750,000 per ...
Apr 21, 2023