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Students share dangers of impaired driving
MEDICINE HAT, AB -Members of the Students Against Drinking and Driving Club at Crescent Heights High School took their message outside of the classroom Tuesday afternoon.Approximately 20 members of th...
Oct 29, 2019 Members of the Students Against Drinking and Driving (SADD) club at Crescent Heights High School hold signs on Maple Avenue, warning drivers about the dangers of impaired driving. (Photo by Charles Lefebvre)
Panthers score three times in two minutes, hand Oilers first home loss
EDMONTON - Allowing three goals on three shots in just over two minutes was a recipe for disaster for the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday. Brian Boyle and Jayce Hawryluk each had a goal and an assist as the...
Oct 29, 2019
Province introduces new climate change plan focused on large emitters
EDMONTON, AB - The provincial government has unveiled it's new plan to address climate change in Alberta.Jason Nixon, Minister of Environment and Parks, has tabled Bill 19, which would create the Tech...
Oct 29, 2019 Minister Jason Nixon announces Alberta’s TIER regulation and proposed legislation alongside industry supporters. - Government of Alberta photo
Bloc Quebecois seeks judicial recounts in Hochelaga, Quebec ridings won by Liberals
The Bloc Quebecois is seeking judicial recounts in two Quebec federal ridings narrowly won by the Liberals during the Oct. 21 election. The party said today it made a request in Quebec Superior C...
Oct 29, 2019
Government to ask public sector workers to take wage cut
EDMONTON, AB - The province is asking public sector workers to accept a pay cut when wage arbitration talks resume later this week.In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Finance Minister Travis To...
Oct 29, 2019
Liberal staffers removing anti-carbon tax stickers, minister charges
TORONTO - Liberal staffers are peeling government-mandated anti-carbon tax stickers off of gas pumps, Ontario Energy Minister Greg Rickford said Tuesday, insisting that disappearin...
Oct 29, 2019
Fugitive Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont officially denied entry into Canada
MONTREAL - The lawyer for the fugitive Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont says his client has been officially refused entry into Canada. Stephane Handfield said Puigdemont learned today an im...
Oct 29, 2019
Gnabry, Müller save Bayern from German Cup upset in Bochum
BERLIN - Serge Gnabry and Thomas Mller scored late to help Bayern Munich avoid an upset and beat second-division Bochum 2-1 in the German Cup on Tuesday. An own goal from Canadian teen Alphonso Davies...
Oct 29, 2019
Frustration rises amid another round of California blackouts
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - With no electricity for the fourth straight day Tuesday, chef and caterer Jane Sykes realized she would have to throw out $1,000 worth of food, including trays of brownies, cupcak...
Oct 29, 2019
Alberta asking arbitrators to cut public service pay by two per cent
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is seeking wage rollbacks as binding arbitration gets set to resume with more than 180,000 public sector workers. Finance Minister Travis Toews says the government wi...
Oct 29, 2019