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Manning Community Health Centre ED closing overnight
The Manning Community Health Centre will be closing its Emergency Department overnight this evening (Thursday, December 15) and Friday, December 16 from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. The cause of the closure was ...
Dec 15, 2022
Trudeau's call-out yields questions on everything from mermaid sex to dog pants
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may not have started the day thinking about whether mermaids reproduce like fish or like humans, but that's what one person is asking him to consider. In a tweet...
Dec 15, 2022
AHS launching online wait times at GPRH
A new program will allow residents to check wait times before they arrive at the emergency department in the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital. However, this is feature is only available at the Grande ...
Dec 15, 2022
Ex-Canucks head coach Travis Green to lead Canada at Spengler Cup
CALGARY - Travis Green is getting back behind the bench. The former Vancouver Canucks head coach has been tabbed to lead Canada's entry at the annual Spengler Cup tournament later this month. Green wi...
Dec 15, 2022
No guarantees, but expert says search of landfill for women's remains may succeed
WINNIPEG - In 2002, investigators started a massive search of Robert Pickton's pig farm in British Columbia and eventually found the remains of several women. Twenty years later, the lead forensic ant...
Dec 15, 2022
Apprenticeship seats added at NWP
The provincial government says it is funding 80 more apprenticeship seats at Northwestern Polytechnic for the 2022-23 academic year.These will be in addition to the 783 already in place.Another 24 ele...
Dec 15, 2022
Respiratory illnesses surge beyond pre-pandemic numbers in Nunavut
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut health officials say there has been a surge of respiratory illnesses across the territory this year. Dr. Sean Watchel, the territory's chief public health officer, says case...
Dec 15, 2022
Unified MMA closes in on half-century of shows with three fight cards in 15 days
TORONTO - Sunny Sareen is a busy man these days. The Unified MMA president is in the midst of putting on three fight cards in 15 days, a run that started Dec. 2 with Unified MMA 47 in Calgary. "An amb...
Dec 15, 2022
Alberta to prosecute federal firearms ban on a case-by-case basis
EDMONTON, AB - The Alberta Government says it is taking steps to protect law-abiding gun owners.Justice Minister Tyler Shandro announced a couple of regulatory changes to firearms in the province.Firs...
Dec 15, 2022
Liberal government seeking delay to expanding medically assisted dying program
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is seeking to delay the expansion of Canada's assisted-dying regime to include people whose sole underlying conditions are mental disorders. Justice Minister David Lame...
Dec 15, 2022