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Bus with Victoria students rolled after it moved for Jeep on logging road: RCMP
VANCOUVER - A bus loaded with University of Victoria students moved over for an oncoming vehicle just as a logging road narrowed before it rolled over in September, killing two stu...
Dec 17, 2019
Students design liquor store bags to remind people about impaired driving
Redcliff, AB - Students across Cypress County and Redcliff are being rewarded for their help in raising awareness of impaired driving and the consequences that come with it.For the last month, student...
Dec 17, 2019 Constable Zachary Dye-Wilson hands out prizes to Margaret Wooding students
Smart gun argument makes Danforth shooting class action hard to win: expert
TORONTO - Arguing that the use of smart technology in gun manufacturing could have prevented a deadly mass shooting in Toronto's Greektown will take a proposed class action&nb...
Dec 17, 2019
Ottawa's consultation with Indigenous groups on pipeline was meaningful: Lawyer
VANCOUVER - Lawyers for the Canadian government say it conducted a new round of consultations with Indigenous groups about the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that was reasonable, adequate...
Dec 17, 2019
Wilkinson 'wrestling' with how oilsands mine would fit into climate commitments
CALGARY - The federal environment minister says he's spoken with his Alberta counterpart about how Canada's climate commitments could weigh into his decision about a large proposed oils...
Dec 17, 2019
Mom of slain girls tells court her life is like a nightmare she never wakes from
VICTORIA - A mother of two murdered girls says her life has become a living nightmare from which she never awakes. Sarah Cotton told a B.C. Supreme Court sentencing hearing for her...
Dec 17, 2019
Montreal caleche drivers seek injunction to try to save their industry
MONTREAL - A group of Montreal carriage-horse owners and drivers are going to court in a last-ditch effort to save their industry weeks before a city-imposed ban is set to take effect. The group ...
Dec 17, 2019
Wind warnings issued for southwestern Alberta
FORT MACLEOD, AB - Environment Canada has issued wind warnings for a few regions in southwest corner of the province.This includes areas like the Crowsnest Pass, Pincher Creek, the Piikani Reserve, Wa...
Dec 17, 2019 A map showing the areas included in the wind warnings. (Supplied by Environment Canada)
Youngest ever Liverpool team taken to school in League Cup
BIRMINGHAM, England - The youngest ever Liverpool team to play a competitive game was taken to school in the English League Cup quarterfinals on Tuesday. With its best players in Qatar for the Club Wo...
Dec 17, 2019
Iron Horse employees donate $5,000 to Kidsport
REDCLIFF, AB - Staff at a local oil and gas company are in the giving spirit, helping athletes achieve their dreams.Iron Horse Energy Services announced Tuesday their employees have donated $5,000 to ...
Dec 17, 2019 Staff at Iron Horse Energy Services present a $5,000 donation to Kidsport Medicine Hat and Redcliff Tuesday afternoon - Photo by Charles Lefebvre