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Two Redcliff rental homes destroyed, left covered in feces by tenants
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The state of two rental properties in Redcliff is raising concerns about the conditions of a child and a number of animals left to live in squalor and the landlords left to clean up...
Jun 18, 2020
Food Truck Festival is back this weekend
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Get your appetites ready, Hatters.The weekly food truck festival has become a summer favourite for Medicine Hat residents in the past couple of years and is finally returning.It wil...
Jun 18, 2020
WHL teams will need fans in seats to operate next season, says commissioner
CALGARY - Western Hockey League teams need their arenas at least half full with spectators next season to operate, according to the league's commissioner. The COVID-19 pandemic has shut down larg...
Jun 18, 2020
BDC ready to roll with loans for mid-sized companies hit hard by COVID-19
OTTAWA - Mid-sized Canadian businesses that are strapped for cash because of COVID-19 can now apply through their own banks to get loans of up to $60 million from the federal government. The loans, to...
Jun 18, 2020
Province proposes new and extended COVID-19 measures, delaying financial statements
EDMONTON, AB - The Government of Alberta has introduced Bill 24, the COVID-19 Pandemic Response Statutes Amendment Act, into the legislature.It proposes 15 acts across seven ministries, mainly centere...
Jun 18, 2020
No West Nile Virus cases reported in the province so far this year
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Based on last year's numbers the entire province of Alberta had four cases of the West Nile Virus.That's according to Medical Officer of Health for the South Zone Dr. Shobhit Maruti...
Jun 18, 2020
Billie Eilish gets 3-year restraining order for trespasser
LOS ANGELES - A judge has extended to three years a restraining order taken out by Billie Eilish against a man who repeatedly appeared at her Los Angeles home. In a hearing, Superior Court Judge Diann...
Jun 18, 2020
Senate ethics committee urges censure of Tory senator over trip to China
OTTAWA - The Senate's ethics committee is recommending that a Conservative senator be censured for breaching the upper house's ethics code when he accepted an all-expenses-paid trip to China in 2...
Jun 18, 2020
Too many visitors forces B.C. to shut park on Canada-U.S. boundary
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia park that straddles the 49th parallel with Washington state will be closed because it's overwhelmed with visitors using it as a cross-border meeting point. The governm...
Jun 18, 2020
Barnes draws hard line after release of Fair Deal Panel report
MEDICINE HAT, AB - More than six months in the making, the report from the Fair Deal Panel that details how Albertans feel about the province's place in confederation was released on Wednesday.Cypress...
Jun 18, 2020