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Excitement and nerves as Medicine Hat Musical Theatre returns to the stage
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Medicine Hat Musical Theatre is just days away from taking centre stage once againThe cast and crew are ready for the curtain to rise on Oct. 15 for The War of the Worlds: The Panic...
Oct 08, 2021
Walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinics added in South Zone
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Additional COVID-19 walk-in vaccination clinics are being added in Medicine Hat and elsewhere in the South Zone.Alberta Health Services announced the new clinics this week after the...
Oct 08, 2021
Riders QB Fajardo says he's on the same page as his receiving corps
REGINA - Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Cody Fajardo believes it's possible for something good to come out of something bad. Following last week's 23-17 loss to the Stampeders in Calgary, Fajard...
Oct 08, 2021
Sports psychologists: Price will help end the stigma around mental health in sports
No pain, no gain. "What a terrible phrase that we've used for many years to describe our athletes," Gordon Bloom says of the saying that's been thrown around the sports world since the 1980s -- and su...
Oct 08, 2021
Texas moves to reinstate nation's toughest abortion law
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas on Friday asked a federal appeals court to swiftly reinstate the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., as some abortion clinics in the state resumed normal services for...
Oct 08, 2021
Oil price spike won't increase industry cleanup spending: Alberta energy minister
EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister says the current spike in oil prices isn't enough reason to require the industry to spend more on cleaning up the tens of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells ...
Oct 08, 2021
British Royal Navy, Canadian Coast Guard sign deal on Arctic co-operation, training
OTTAWA - The Canadian Coast Guard signed an agreement Friday with Britain's Royal Navy to train its sailors on Arctic icebreakers in Canada's Far North. The memorandum of understanding follows a 2020 ...
Oct 08, 2021
Canadian basketball star Kia Nurse suffers torn ACL in right knee
Canadian women's basketball star Kia Nurse will miss the remainder of the 2021 WNBA season after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee. The Phoenix guard suffered the injury ju...
Oct 08, 2021
Gov. Gen. May Simon helped feed hungry in Ottawa as demand for food help soars
OTTAWA - An Ottawa homeless shelter where demand for services has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic served as the backdrop for the first-ever public event for Gov. Gen. Mary May Simon Friday. M...
Oct 08, 2021
Biden won't invoke executive privilege on Trump docs
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden is not asserting executive privilege over a tranche of documents sought by a House committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, setting ...
Oct 08, 2021