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Padres turn to October ace Musgrove vs. Phillies in Game 3
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - There was at least one fuddy-duddy in San Diego who did not see the humor in a mural painted this week of the famous San Diego Chicken using his super-sized yellow foot to stomp on...
Oct 20, 2022
EPA starts civil rights probe into Mississippi water woes
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state's majority-Black capital city b...
Oct 20, 2022
Liberal mandatory minimums bill doesn't go far enough: Murray Sinclair
OTTAWA - The former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission says Liberal legislation to remove some mandatory minimum penalties from the Criminal Code doesn't go far enough. Murray Sinclair s...
Oct 20, 2022
Ilia Malinin headlines Grand Prix opener at Skate America
The new face of American figure skating began to play around with the quadruple Axel, that unicorn of a jump that had never been landed in competition, when he started to see some of the sport's best ...
Oct 20, 2022
One-year sentence for Saskatchewan man convicted of hate speech against Jews
ESTEVAN, Sask. - The former leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party was handed a one-year sentence Thursday on a hate speech charge after he called for the genocide of Jewish people in a video posted...
Oct 20, 2022
Truss resignation likely to stall Canada-U.K. trade deal, experts say
OTTAWA - More political tumult in Britain is likely to further stall trade talks with Canada, experts say. U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss stepped down today after a mere six weeks in office following m...
Oct 20, 2022
Local United Way sets 2022 campaign goal
United Way Alberta Northwest launched its annual fall campaign Thursday morning, with a goal of affecting 15,000 lives locally this year.Executive Director Tracy Zuk says they have calculated that app...
Oct 20, 2022
Security forces kill at least 60 as protests engulf Chad
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - Chadian security forces opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in the country's two largest cities Thursday killing at least 60 people, the government spokesman and a morg...
Oct 20, 2022
County launches new program to help small businesses
To coincide with small business week, the County of Grande Prairie has launched a new Business Assistance Program, which will allow small and medium-sized businesses to access professional human resou...
Oct 20, 2022
ASIRT's investigation into a Grande Prairie RCMP member leads to a charge
Updated from a previous versionThe Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has concluded its investigation into a Grande Prairie RCMP Officer. Constable Damien Lessard-Jomphe has been charged with dang...
Oct 20, 2022