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Popular roller-coaster at West Edmonton Mall amusement park to be removed
EDMONTON - Canada's largest shopping centre says a popular roller-coaster at its amusement park is being removed after nearly 40 years in operation.West Edmonton Mall's vice-president of parks and att...
Jan 31, 2023
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples call for end to police brutality in Canada
TORONTO - A national Indigenous organization is calling on Canadian police forces to make "fundamental changes" to end brutality against members of racialized groups in the country. The Congress of Ab...
Jan 31, 2023
Ukrainian groups withdraw court challenge of nixed turbine export to Russian pipeline
OTTAWA - A Ukrainian-Canadians group has withdrawn a court challenge of Ottawa's decision to export gas turbines for a Russian pipeline after the federal government nixed the plan in December. The fed...
Jan 31, 2023
Robin Kurpjuweit pulls out of Cypress-Medicine Hat UCP nomination contest
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The nomination contest for the United Conservative Party in Cypress-Medicine Hat has lost one member.Robin Kurpjuweit has decided to pull out of the race, saying he wants to focus m...
Jan 31, 2023
Durenberger, former US senator from Minnesota, dies at 88
Former U.S. Senator David Durenberger, a Minnesota Republican who espoused a progressive brand of politics and criticized the GOP after his political career, died Tuesday at age 88. Durenberger's heal...
Jan 31, 2023
Santos tells colleagues he won't serve on 2 committees
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Rep. George Santos of New York told GOP colleagues in a closed-door meeting Tuesday that he is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees, lawmakers s...
Jan 31, 2023
Pakistan army: Boating accident death toll rises to 51
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - The death toll from a boating accident in a lake in northwest Pakistan over the weekend reached 51, the military said Tuesday. The vessel was carrying children and teachers f...
Jan 31, 2023
Lawes, Scheidegger, Walter in wild-card position for Scotties Tournament of Hearts
Teams skipped by Manitoba's Kaitlyn Lawes, Alberta's Casey Scheidegger and Manitoba's Meghan Walter appear set to fill the three wild-card positions at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. With all of t...
Jan 31, 2023
Pope's Africa trip spotlights conflict, and church's future
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Pope Francis began a six-day visit to Congo and South Sudan on Tuesday, aiming to bring a message of peace to two countries riven by poverty, conflict and what Francis has calle...
Jan 31, 2023
Canada sanctions more Myanmar elite, bans jet fuel sales two years after coup
OTTAWA - Canada has sanctioned more of Myanmar's military elite, two years after the country's coup. The country, formerly known as Burma, has seen a democratic backsliding and a series of humanitaria...
Jan 31, 2023