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Alberta NDP missing an opportunity to enhance public profile with new leadership race format, political observer says
A retired political science instructor at Medicine Hat College says the Alberta New Democrats are squandering an opportunity to enhance its profile with its new leadership contest rules.Jim Groom said...
Jan 30, 2024
Contamination from old Alberta Rockies coal mines raises cleanup questions
EDMONTON - A former coal mine in the Alberta Rockies is releasing a contaminant toxic to fish at rates more than dozens of times higher than federal and provincial guidelines, while another periodical...
Jan 30, 2024
Priestman says she can focus on football now off-field distractions have diminished
Coach Bev Priestman says she has "unfinished business" with the Olympic champion Canadian women's soccer team. And with a newly signed contract to stay on through the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup, ther...
Jan 30, 2024
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. looking forward to setting arbitration record win or lose
TORONTO (AP) - Although he's never gone through the process before, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. doesn't seem too unsettled about the possibility of his 2024 salary being decided by a three-person arbitratio...
Jan 30, 2024
Quebec cold case murder suspect ID'd with help of DNA research tool, trial hears
SAGUENAY, Que. - A forensic biologist has told a trial that a DNA research tool helped police hone in on the suspect who is now charged with the sexual assault and murder of a junior college student n...
Jan 30, 2024
Jays' Guerrero follows father's footsteps as 'MLB The Show' video game cover athlete
Chalk up another father-son milestone for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. The Toronto Blue Jays first baseman is the cover athlete for the "MLB The Show 24" video game, following in the footsteps of his father ...
Jan 30, 2024
Scraps, Stickwork and Star Power: A look back at the first official NHL all-star game
TORONTO - Forget floating in the neutral zone, superfluous showboating, and the shinny-style nonchalance so common in recent NHL all-star games. The inaugural 1947 contest in Toronto - the league's fi...
Jan 30, 2024
National security world tends to promote secrecy over transparency, professor warns
OTTAWA - A law professor is warning the federal inquiry into foreign interference that there's a tendency in the national security realm to prioritize secrecy over transparency. University of Calgary ...
Jan 30, 2024
18 C in Metro Vancouver as atmospheric river smashes heat records, brings heavy rain
Unseasonable warmth brought by an atmospheric river has shattered records - some almost a century old - at more than 30 B.C. locations, with the mercury passing 18 C in parts of Metro Vancouver. Envir...
Jan 30, 2024
Roughriders sign veteran defensive lineman Lanier to one-year extension
REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed American defensive lineman Anthony Lanier II to a one-year contract extension Tuesday. Lanier was eligible to become a free agent next month. The six-foot-...
Jan 30, 2024