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Province will expand push to promote agriculture exports, attract investment
The Government of Alberta is expanding its Agriculture Promotion Network around the world.The recently created Invest Alberta will work with network offices worldwide and will add representatives from...
Sep 30, 2020
Judge approves $800M payout plan for Vegas shooting victims
LAS VEGAS - A court on Wednesday approved a total of $800 million in payouts from casino company MGM Resorts International and its insurers to more than 4,400 relatives and victims of the Las Vegas St...
Sep 30, 2020
Stoney Nakoda Nation unveils new name for mountain peak near Canmore
CANMORE, AB - Stoney Nakoda women elders have revealed their new name for a prominent landmark in the Alberta Rockies with a racist and misogynistic nickname.The offensive name for the feature on Moun...
Sep 30, 2020
Increasing job mobility could grow Alberta's economy by $2.8-billion: report
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Changing provinces takes a lot of work, but a new study by the C.D. Howe Institute claims that making migration easier could give Alberta's economy a major boost.They say Alberta shou...
Sep 30, 2020
Rural crime spree arrest results in $20K of stolen property seized
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) made two arrests and recovered nearly $20,000 of stolen property.The arrests took place on September 24, 2020, after a Medicine Hat ho...
Sep 30, 2020
Alberta senator conducting virtual tour of province
MEDICINE HAT, AB - It's been eight years since Alberta has last held an election for Alberta's senatorial nomination. Back then, Calgary lawyer Doug Black won the most votes under the Progressive Cons...
Sep 30, 2020
Another First Nation in Nova Scotia set to start self-regulated lobster fishery
HALIFAX - A First Nation in southern Cape Breton is set to become the second Indigenous band in Nova Scotia to launch a self-regulated commercial lobster fishery that will operate outside the regular ...
Sep 30, 2020
New Steinem biopic shines light on a sisterhood of activists
Among the pithy quips attributed to Gloria Steinem over the years is this reply to why she wasn't interested in getting married: "I can't mate in captivity." She did eventually marry, to her own surpr...
Sep 30, 2020
Actors in drag march to highlight virus threat to UK theatre
LONDON - As much of Britain's economy emerged from the coronavirus lockdown, its theatres stayed dark, with performers and staff unwillingly idled. So they made a song and dance about it. Scores of ac...
Sep 30, 2020
Man arrested in ambush of 2 Los Angeles County deputies
LOS ANGELES - California investigators have arrested and charged a man in connection with the shooting of two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies earlier this month as they sat in their squad car, a...
Sep 30, 2020