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Minister urges U.S. to stand strong with Canada in regulating tech giants like Meta
WASHINGTON - Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is urging the United States to stand strong with Canada over regulating tech giants in order to protect the news industry. St-Onge made the comm...
Sep 27, 2023
Redcliff man charged in commercial break and enter spree
REDCLIFF, AB - A Redcliff resident has been charged after a string of commercial break and enters in the town and western Saskatchewan this month.The RCMP Southern Alberta District Crime Reduction Uni...
Sep 27, 2023
US Sen. Bob Menendez pleads not guilty to pocketing bribes in a wide-ranging corruption case
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to federal charges accusing him of pocketing bribes of cash and gold bars in exchange for wielding his political in...
Sep 27, 2023
Turkey senior diplomat 'disappointed' by Canada's ongoing arms-export embargo
OTTAWA - Turkey's deputy minister of foreign affairs says Ankara still wants Canada to drop its arms embargo. Ahmet Yildiz said in a keynote address Tuesday, during a forum organized by the Institute ...
Sep 27, 2023
Military's key witness takes stand at court martial for Lt.-Gen. Whelan
OTTAWA - The court martial for Lt.-Gen. Steven Whelan is hearing today from the complainant in the case, who is testifying about the personal relationship she had with Whelan in 2010 and 2011. Whelan ...
Sep 27, 2023
Disputed immigration provision requires link to national security, Supreme Court says
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a provision of federal immigration law can be used to bar people on security grounds for engaging in violence only when there is a clear connection to nationa...
Sep 27, 2023
Monique LaGrange won't be removed as Red Deer Catholic trustee
Monique LaGrange will get to keep her job as school board trustee for Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools (RDCRS), but it doesn't come without a long list of consequences, do's and don'ts.It was Sept. ...
Sep 27, 2023
Alberta's population the fastest-growing in Canada
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Canada reached a new population milestone this summer, lead by high levels of growth in Alberta.Statistics Canada has released its demographic estimates for July 1, 2023.Between July ...
Sep 27, 2023
Hundreds of derelict vessels removed from Canadian waters, Coast Guard says
Vancouver developer Howard Meakin has owned thefamed Expo 86-era floating McDonald's restaurant vessel known as the McBarge for decades, and despite its outward appearance, by no means is it derelict,...
Sep 27, 2023
Three astronauts return to Earth after a year in space. Frank Rubio sets US space record
A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after being stuck in space for just over a year. American Frank Rubio set a record for the longest U.S. spaceflight - a resul...
Sep 27, 2023