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Six First Nations in Alberta acquire equity stake in $1.5-billion power plant project
CALGARY - The Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation (AIOC) has announced its first commitment to provide a loan guarantee to a consortium of six Alberta First Nations to enable their participat...
Sep 10, 2020

Music in Nature back at Police Point Park
MEDICINE HAT, AB - It was so good the first time, the Medicine Hat Interpretive Program is doing it again.Music in Nature II will take place on Sept. 13 at 6:30 p.m. "Our first Music in Nature Jam Ses...
Sep 10, 2020

Highs, lows of a Canadian hockey team goaltender exposed in "The Role I Played"
Sami Jo Small often felt conflicted about her role on the Canadian women's hockey team. The goaltender started 51 games for Canada over her decade on the national team. The on...
Sep 10, 2020

Vehicle fire on Highway 887 leads to traffic delay Wednesday
Update : The traffic advisory was removed from 5-1-1 after 9 a.m. ThursdaySEVEN PERSONS AB - Alberta 5-1-1 was reporting a burnt vehicle that was blocking the southbound lane of highway 887 south of S...
Sep 10, 2020

Review: A breakthrough in 'Broken Hearts Gallery'
The 25-year-old Australian actress Geraldine Viswanathan, having already stolen movies left and right, more straightforwardly owns "Broken Hearts Gallery," a glossy but spirited Gen-Y romantic comedy ...
Sep 10, 2020

Maggie O'Farrell's Shakespearean 'Hamnet' wins Women's Prize
LONDON - Maggie O'Farrell won the Women's Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for "Hamnet," a novel that explores the lives of William Shakespeare's often-maligned wife and lost son. O'Farrell's novel beat...
Sep 10, 2020

PBO: More spending, not more workers, driving costs for federal employees
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says growth in spending on federal employees has more to do with the amounts spent per worker and not because there are more workers to spend on. Spending on ...
Sep 10, 2020

'Avengers' and 'Game of Thrones' star Diana Rigg dies at 82
LONDON - Diana Rigg, a commanding British actress whose career stretched from iconic 1960s spy series "The Avengers" to fantasy juggernaut "Game of Thrones," has died. She was 82. Rigg's agent, Simon ...
Sep 10, 2020

Anthony Rapp sues Kevin Spacey on sex assault allegation
NEW YORK - Actor Anthony Rapp and another man filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against actor Kevin Spacey, accusing him of sexual assaults in the 1980s when they were teens. Rapp, who starred in "Rent" on...
Sep 10, 2020

Oscars diversity criteria 'not about exclusion' say leaders
Any change to the Oscars is going get people talking, so the leaders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were not exactly surprised that the new best picture inclusion standards became ...
Sep 10, 2020