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Wheat Kings unveil coaching staff for 2022-23 NWJHL season
The County of Grande Prairie Wheat Kings have announced their coaching staff for the coming season. Trevor Morrow is the new head coach of the team, taking over for Kyle Chapple - who will focus solel...
Sep 15, 2022
County Council approves Indigenous Peoples Policy
it's being described as "momentous" for the County of Grande Prairie; a new policy has been introduced outlining how they will work with First Nations and Indigenous organizations, as well as for empl...
Sep 15, 2022
French Oblates begin dismissal proceedings for priest accused of abusing Inuit
The leadership of a Catholic order in France has begun dismissal proceedings against a priest accused of sexual abusing Inuit children in Nunavut. A delegation of Inuit led by Nunavut Tunnagivik Inc. ...
Sep 15, 2022
Griner, Whelan families to meet Biden amid US-Russia talks
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom re...
Sep 15, 2022
Canadian royal 'diehard' camping in London ahead of Queen Elizabeth's funeral
LONDON - Bernadette Christie has had a front-row view of some of the biggest royal events of the last decade. She has seen Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle walk into the church on their wedding days, ...
Sep 15, 2022
Montana judge blocks anti-trans birth certificate rule
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A Montana judge has blocked health officials from enforcing a state rule that would prevent transgender people from changing the gender on their birth certificate. District Cour...
Sep 15, 2022
Director Hubert Davis on 'Black Ice' and the untold Black hockey experience
TORONTO - In the new sports documentary "Black Ice," viewers learn that in 1906 hockey player Eddie Martin became the first to use a technique known as the slapshot - a back swing of the stick known f...
Sep 15, 2022
As midterms loom, lawmakers on Capitol Hill push banking reforms for legal cannabis
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing their Senate colleagues to pass legislation that would make financing easier for cannabis operations in the United States. Retailers and industry adv...
Sep 15, 2022
Roger Federer says he is retiring from professional tennis
Roger Federer announced Thursday that he is retiring from professional tennis at age 41 after winning 20 Grand Slam titles. This decision comes just days after the end of the U.S. Open, which is expec...
Sep 15, 2022
Roger Federer says he is retiring from professional tennis
Roger Federer announced Thursday that he is retiring from professional tennis at age 41 after winning 20 Grand Slam titles. This decision comes just days after the end of the U.S. Open, which is expec...
Sep 15, 2022