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Virtual conversation to connect with school communities about suicide
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Local school boards, police and other community partners have come together to start a conversation about grief, loss, suicide and mental health.Connecting with School Communities a...
Oct 06, 2020
Quebec Premier Francois Legault to formally apologize to Joyce Echaquan's family
Quebec Premier Francois Legault says he will present an official apology today to the family of an Indigenous woman who filmed staff insulting her as she lay dying in a hospital northeast of Montreal ...
Oct 06, 2020
Liberals, NDP block Conservative effort to have prorogation study include WE affair
OTTAWA - The Liberals and the NDP have blocked an effort by the Conservatives to get the WE Charity affair probed ahead of a study into why the Liberals prorogued Parliament. The government must provi...
Oct 06, 2020
Law enforcement officer asks for dismissal of Raptors president Ujiri's counterclaim
OAKLAND, Calif. - Lawyers for an American law enforcement officer have filed a motion to dismiss a counterclaim to a lawsuit from Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri in the aftermath of an altercati...
Oct 06, 2020
$42.8-million fertilizer terminal opens near Grassy Lake
GRASSY LAKE, AB - A new state-of-the-art fertilizer terminal has opened in Southern Alberta.Federated Co-operative Limited (FCL) invested $42.8-million into the facility, which warehouses, blends and ...
Oct 06, 2020
City approves to borrow $80-million for well abandonment project
MEDICINE HAT, AB - City council passed the second and third reading of borrowing $80-million dollars for a well abandonment and reclamation project.Both readings received unanimous approval on Monday ...
Oct 06, 2020
Malian official: Politician Cisse, French aid worker freed
BAMAKO, Mali - Islamic extremists have freed prominent Malian politician Soumaila Cisse after holding him hostage for more than six months, as well as a French aid worker who was kidnapped in 2016, a ...
Oct 06, 2020
Ottawa Aces add bite with six-foot-seven, 275-pound prop Adam Lawton
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Aces have added six-foot-seven, 275-pound prop Adam Lawton for their inaugural 2021 season. Lawton, 27, arrives from fellow League 1 side Newcastle Thunder. He is the 18th player t...
Oct 06, 2020
Quebec reports more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for fifth straight day
OTTAWA - Canada's two most populous provinces remain COVID-19 hot spots today, with Quebec setting a record for new daily case counts. Cases are surging in several parts of the country but Quebec and ...
Oct 06, 2020
Activists, scientists, authors among 'genius grant' fellows
CHICAGO - An activist speaking out about inadequate waste and water sanitation in rural America, an author of young adult and children's literature reflecting the world's diversity, and a neuroscienti...
Oct 06, 2020