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Tavares scores OT winner as Maple Leafs beat Golden Knights
TORONTO - John Tavares scored at 2:33 of overtime as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1 on Thursday night. Auston Matthews also scored for Toronto (9-5-3). Frederik And...
Nov 07, 2019
Airline steps up to provide Calgary Zoo with bamboo for picky pandas
CALGARY - A culinary crisis has been avoided at the Calgary Zoo which was facing a bamboo shortage for its four giant pandas. The pandas, which staff admit are picky eaters, munch on about 1...
Nov 07, 2019
Google digitizes artworks in Puerto Rico for 1st time
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The 1953 painting by Rafael Tufio Figueroa features his mother with a red scarf on her head, a determined look on her face and heavy expression lines, a depiction of a working-...
Nov 07, 2019
Human rights ruling says Manitoba must offer gender-neutral birth certificates
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has been ordered to start offering non-binary sex designations on its birth certificates. A human rights adjudicator has also ordered the province to pay $50,00...
Nov 07, 2019
Gap CEO steps down amid slumping sales
NEW YORK - Gap's announced Thursday that CEO Art Peck is stepping down as the company struggles to turn around a long-standing sales slump. The San Francisco-based retailer also slashed its earnings o...
Nov 07, 2019
Alberta will study already 'compelling case' for its exit from CPP; Kenney
EDMONTON -- Premier Jason Kenney says there's a ``compelling case'' to be made for his province to exit the half-century-old Canada Pension Plan an idea sure to face increasing scrutiny over the comin...
Nov 07, 2019 Premier Jason Kenney -- The Canadian Press
Benefits of building rural broadband network in Alberta far outweighs costs: study
LETHBRIDGE, AB - A new study has found that, for every dollar invested into building high-speed broadband networks across Alberta's rural areas, we would see around three dollars of economic benefit o...
Nov 07, 2019 Stock image
Province looking to give additional training to peace officers to combat rural crime
REDCLIFF, AB - The provincial government has announced new plans to combat rural crime in Alberta.During a news conference on Wednesday, Doug Schweitzer, Minister of Justice and Solicitor General, ann...
Nov 07, 2019 Alberta Sheriff Vehicle - Photo by Ross Lavigne
Motz supports Scheer continuing as leader
Medicine Hat, AB - MP Glen Motz (Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner) is squarely laying the blame of a divisive federal election campaign which has raised questions of national unity at the feet of Prime Mi...
Nov 07, 2019
Hopes rise that lifting tariffs could allow US-China accord
BEIJING - The prospects for a preliminary breakthrough in the U.S.-China trade war improved Thursday after the two sides agreed to reduce some punitive tariffs on each other's goods, though the full e...
Nov 07, 2019