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High school student animates her way to bronze at provincials
MEDICINE HAT AB- When Sierra Hill, a grade 10 student at Crescent Heights High School was pulled into her mom's office and told she won a bronze medal for animation, she could hardly believe it."I was...
May 31, 2020
Palliative care has been put on the backburner during pandemic, experts say
When Kathryn Butler Malette learned her younger sister was diagnosed with COVID-19, she was confronted with a waking nightmare: that her beloved sibling might die alone. While Ontario's government has...
May 31, 2020
Palliative care has been put on the backburner during pandemic, experts say
When Kathryn Butler Malette learned her younger sister was diagnosed with COVID-19, she was confronted with a waking nightmare: that her beloved sibling might die alone. While Ontario's government has...
May 31, 2020
Ottawa pledges millions to promote holiday travel in Canada during pandemic
Ottawa is earmarking millions of dollars for the promotion of holiday travel inside Canada as it seeks to help the tourism industry weather the COVID-19 pandemic. The money announced by Economic Devel...
May 31, 2020
Couple wouldn't let COVID get in the way of marital bliss
MEDICINE HAT, AB - It's not the wedding they originally planned but it still turned out to be pretty much perfect, says one of Medicine Hat's newest husbands.Darin Parker of Medicine Hat and Ivy Atwoo...
May 31, 2020
As America burns with racial rage, Trump backs down on staging G7 in June
WASHINGTON - As U.S. cities seethe with racial unrest, President Donald Trump has abruptly abandoned his plan to invite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other world leaders to Washington in June...
May 31, 2020
Protesters rally against anti-black, Indigenous racism in Toronto
TORONTO - Thousands of protesters took to the streets of downtown Toronto on Saturday, chanting "justice for Regis" as they rallied in the aftermath of high-profile, police-involved deaths in bot...
May 31, 2020
'Makes no sense:' Woman can't fathom why husband, uncle slain on hunting trip
Sarah Sansom didn't think she had any reason to worry when her husband and his uncle ventured into the woods to go moose hunting. Jacob Sansom, 39, and Maurice Cardinal, 57, were found shot ...
May 31, 2020
'Little orange dot:' Lone Alberta NDP MP says she offers different perspective
EDMONTON - Not long after she became a member of Parliament last fall, Heather McPherson was at an event with one of her favourite Olympians. She had just met former downhill ...
May 31, 2020
In hard-hit Quebec, families struggle to mourn those lost to COVID-19
MONTREAL - July Mak spent nearly every night with her father, Paul. Because he was plagued by health problems, including a stroke that left him unable to walk on his own, the family decided to pu...
May 31, 2020