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Miywasin promoting Red Dress Day awareness on Saturday
MEDICINE HAT, AB - May 5 is a solemn day each year to honour and remember murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.Started in 2010 by Mtis artist Jaime Black, it is also referred to as Red Dres...
May 06, 2022
RCMP advises motorists to drive cautiously Saturday for Alberta Transportation’s 46th Annual Highway Cleanup
Volunteers across the province will be participating in Alberta Transportation's 46th Annual Highway Cleanup Campaign on Saturday.From 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 7, volunteers from various groups and clu...
May 06, 2022
Going dark: Oilers take the ice without lights at pre-game skate in L.A.
LOS ANGELES - The Edmonton Oilers were in the dark when they hit the rink on Friday morning - literally. The team took the ice at Crypto.com Arena a few minutes before their scheduled pre-game skate a...
May 06, 2022
Fire crews take on blaze at Taber electronics recycling facility
LETHBRIDGE, AB -- Fire crews are working to extinguish a fire at Technotrash Alberta located at 5814 64 Street in Taber. At approximately 11:00 a.m. Friday, May 6, 2022, thick black smoke was billowin...
May 06, 2022
Racing fans can't place Kentucky Derby bets in Ontario's fixed-odds industry
TORONTO - Messier will attempt to become just the third Canadian-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, but racing fans won't be able to wager on him in Ontario's fixed-odds sports betting ...
May 06, 2022
What to pack before and what to do in an emergency
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Our community is no stranger to spring floods and summer heatwaves and the upheaval of lives in their aftermath. The Canadian Red Cross says older adults can be severely affected du...
May 06, 2022
Sheriff: Car linked to Alabama escapee, jail worker found
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities in Tennessee say they have located an abandoned vehicle used by a man wanted in Alabama for murder and the jail official who disappeared with him. Williamson County ...
May 06, 2022
International federation's ethics committee to review Boxing Canada, Trepanier
The International Boxing Association wants Canada's high performance director Daniel Trepanier banned from the women's world championships. In a letter sent to Boxing Canada on Friday, the IBA said it...
May 06, 2022
Former LPGA player Salimah Mussani named Golf Canada's new women's head coach
OAKVILLE, Ont. - Salimah Mussani was named Golf Canada's new women's head coach on Friday and will oversee the development of Canada's top female amateur and professional golfers. Mussani assumes the ...
May 06, 2022
Definition of 'inefficient fossil fuel subsidy' still elusive in Canada
OTTAWA - Canada is still working on defining an "inefficient" fossil fuel subsidy, some 13 years after it signed an international agreement to eliminate them and four years since launching a peer revi...
May 06, 2022