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Application for seniors grant program opening soon
MEDICINE HAT, AB - A federal grant program that supports seniors who are supporting their fellow seniors will launch next month.Calls for proposals for the New Horizons for Seniors Program will begin ...
Jul 27, 2023

Store decorating challenge promotes Stampede spirit
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Stampede spirit began to take hold of the city last week as businesses, offices, care homes and more began decorating for the annual store decorating challenge.Judging took place on...
Jul 27, 2023

Sammy Yatim's mother continues fight for justice 10 years after son's death
TORONTO - Ten years after her son was fatally shot on an empty Toronto streetcar, Sammy Yatim's mother said she's still fighting for justice. Eighteen-year-old Yatim was shot multiple times by Const. ...
Jul 27, 2023

Our Town: Real Estate
MEDICINE HAT, AB - In the new episode of Our Town, we learn that land fever was burning hot in Medicine Hat in the early years of the 20th century and promotion of properties sent prices skyrocketing....
Jul 27, 2023

Investigators say poor track conditions caused a 2021 Amtrak derailment in Montana that killed three
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Poor track conditions that should have been flagged by a freight railroad company's inspectors caused the derailment of an Amtrak train in Montana that killed three people and inj...
Jul 27, 2023

Public Safety department says Liberal law did not factor into Bernardo's transfer
OTTAWA - The federal Public Safety department says Paul Bernardo would have been transferred to a medium-security prison even if the previous version of the corrections law was still been in place. Co...
Jul 27, 2023

CP NewsAlert: First victim of N.S. floods identified as member of local rock band
HALIFAX - A man who died during a torrential rainstorm last weekend in rural Nova Scotia has been identified as Nicholas Anthony Holland. Holland was one of four people, including two small children, ...
Jul 27, 2023

Study: Soccer most popular sport among Canadian kids post-pandemic
Soccer is the most popular sport for young Canadians to play, according to a recent study. The 2023 Canadian Youth Sports Report is an independent syndicated study published by Solutions Research Grou...
Jul 27, 2023

Sign outside Quebec Ukrainian summer camp vandalized with pro-Russian graffiti
CHERTSEY, Que. - Officials who run a summer camp north of Montreal for Ukrainian children say one of its signs has been vandalized with pro-Russian graffiti. A photo shows the Camp Ste-Sophie sign van...
Jul 27, 2023

Pat Carney, former MP, senator, remembered as kind, 'wise leader'
VANCOUVER - Pat Carney is being remembered as a life force and a woman who got things done. The former member of Parliament, senator and trailblazer died Tuesday at the age of 88. Former Conservative ...
Jul 27, 2023