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Avian flu infecting Alberta farms
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the number of birds infected with avian flu is growing in the country and Alberta has the highest number of cases of the disease.The organization released an u...
Sep 15, 2022

RCMP ask for patience in Sanderson case
Saskatchewan RCMP are asking for public patience as they continue to investigate how Myles Sanderson died. Sanderson and his brother Damien are suspected of killing 11 people in James Smith Cree Natio...
Sep 15, 2022

French Oblates begin dismissal proceedings for priest accused of abusing Inuit
The leadership of a Catholic order in France has begun dismissal proceedings against a priest accused of sexual abusing Inuit children in Nunavut. A delegation of Inuit led by Nunavut Tunnagivik Inc. ...
Sep 15, 2022

Griner, Whelan families to meet Biden amid US-Russia talks
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom re...
Sep 15, 2022

Canadian royal 'diehard' camping in London ahead of Queen Elizabeth's funeral
LONDON - Bernadette Christie has had a front-row view of some of the biggest royal events of the last decade. She has seen Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle walk into the church on their wedding days, ...
Sep 15, 2022

Confirmed weekly COVID-19 cases up again, two more deaths in city
The number of weekly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat is yo-yo-ing as summer fades into fall. The number of new cases in the city is above 30 for the second time in two weeks, bookending a ...
Sep 15, 2022

Visitors allowed back in Jasper National Park
Parks Canada is welcoming visitors back to Jasper National Park after power was restored to the townsite that was knocked out by a wildfire north of the community earlier this month.The agency says it...
Sep 15, 2022

Montana judge blocks anti-trans birth certificate rule
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A Montana judge has blocked health officials from enforcing a state rule that would prevent transgender people from changing the gender on their birth certificate. District Cour...
Sep 15, 2022

Director Hubert Davis on 'Black Ice' and the untold Black hockey experience
TORONTO - In the new sports documentary "Black Ice," viewers learn that in 1906 hockey player Eddie Martin became the first to use a technique known as the slapshot - a back swing of the stick known f...
Sep 15, 2022

As midterms loom, lawmakers on Capitol Hill push banking reforms for legal cannabis
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing their Senate colleagues to pass legislation that would make financing easier for cannabis operations in the United States. Retailers and industry adv...
Sep 15, 2022