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AISH, income support payment dates changing in March
EDMONTON, AB - The provincial government has changed the date for when Albertans receiving Income Support of Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) will receive their monthly payments.Star...
Jan 28, 2020 alberta legislature
Nicholas Parsons, host of BBC's 'Just a Minute' dies at 96
LONDON - British broadcaster Nicholas Parsons, who hosted the witty, wordy radio program "Just a Minute" for more than 50 years, has died at the age of 96. Parson's agent, Jean Diamond, said he died T...
Jan 28, 2020
Grandson’s pitch coaxes Redford out of retirement, briefly
PARK CITY, Utah - Midway through the film festival he founded more than four decades ago, Robert Redford hopped out of a car and hollered to his grandson. The 28-year-old Dylan Redford was later that ...
Jan 28, 2020
Trump plan calls for Palestinian state, settlement freeze
WASHINGTON - U.S. officials say President Donald Trump's long-awaited Middle East peace plan calls for the creation of a State of Palestine with its capital in portions of east Jerusalem, ending specu...
Jan 28, 2020
Crowsnest Pass fish hatchery getting $4-million for renovations
COLEMAN, AB - Millions of dollars will flow from the Government of Alberta's pocketbooks into a fish hatchery near the B.C.-Alberta border.The Allison Creek Brood Trout Station was built back in the 1...
Jan 28, 2020 Allison Creek Brood Trout Station. (Supplied by CNP Live)
Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation launches
EDMONTON, AB - A new first-of-its-kind Crown Corporation aims to help Indigenous groups in Alberta become the owners of resource projects.The Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation (AIOC) will a...
Jan 28, 2020 The first meeting of the Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation. (Supplied by Government of Alberta)
FA Cup shock: Liverpool held 2-2 by 3rd-tier Shrewsbury
The sight of Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino entering as substitutes late in the second half really summed up Liverpool's desperation in its FA Cup match against supposed pushovers from the third ti...
Jan 28, 2020
Trump team wrapping up trial defence as senators mull Bolton
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's legal team prepared to wrap up arguments in his impeachment trial Tuesday as Senate Republicans wrestled with whether to allow witnesses, including John Bolton wh...
Jan 28, 2020
Quebec police find bodies of two of four missing French snowmobilers
ST-HENRI-DE-TAILLON, Que. - A Quebec provincial police search-and-rescue team retrieved the bodies of two more French snowmobilers who plunged into the water last Tuesday...
Jan 28, 2020
Tories seek auditor general review of Liberal infrastructure plan
OTTAWA - The Opposition Conservatives are hoping to use their newfound sway in a minority Parliament to force an audit of the Liberals' infrastructure program. The Tories have heavily criticized ...
Jan 28, 2020