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Canada criminalized 'condoning, denying or downplaying' the Holocaust: is it working?
OTTAWA - Canadian Jewish organizations are calling on the Liberal government to remove what they see as barriers to enforcing a relatively new Criminal Code provision against Holocaust denialism amid ...
Nov 19, 2023

HotSpot parking service expanding in Medicine Hat
MEDICINE HAT - A program to help motorists pay for parking without having to carry a pocket full of coins is expanding to the Esplanade. The HotSpot Parking service is a new payment method for the und...
Nov 19, 2023

Exhibition aims to promote deeper understanding of addictions
MEDICINE HAT - A new interactive exhibit opening this week aims to tell the real-life stories of people impacted by addiction. It's called Addictions Don't Discriminate and it looks to breakdown stere...
Nov 19, 2023

Australia restricts India to 240 all out in Cricket World Cup final as Kohli makes 54
AHMEDEBAD, India (AP) - Australia appeared in command of the Cricket World Cup final on Sunday after restricting India to 240 all out, with a disciplined bowling performance by the five-time champions...
Nov 19, 2023

Tiny beetle to the rescue of N.S. hemlocks attacked by woolly invasive insect
FREDERICTON - On comfortable beds of wood shavings inside multiple boxes, 3,600 Laricobius nigrinus beetles made overnight journeys last month from the forests of British Columbia all the way to south...
Nov 19, 2023

Argentines begin voting in an election that could lead a Trump-admiring populist to the presidency
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentines began voting Sunday in a presidential runoff pitting the candidate of the ruling Peronist party against a populist, anti-establishment candidate whose electio...
Nov 19, 2023

Freeland to present fall fiscal update Tuesday as cost-of-living dominates politics
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will table the fall fiscal update on Tuesday, which is expected to focus on housing and affordability as the Liberal government struggles to regain favour w...
Nov 19, 2023

Gaza's Health Ministry says 30 premature babies have been evacuated from Shifa hospital
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) - Gaza's Health Ministry says 30 premature babies have been evacuated from Shifa Hospital and will be transferred to hospitals in Egypt. Medhat Abbas, a spokesman for the ...
Nov 19, 2023

B.C. stream watchers link 'unprecedented' coho salmon kill to tire toxin and drought
VANCOUVER - John Barker has been volunteering with the West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society for more than 20 years and says he's never seen anything like it, dozens of coho salmon, pre-spawn and silver...
Nov 19, 2023

List of people cleared to leave Gaza Strip via Egypt includes 135 Canadians
OTTAWA - A new batch of people with ties to Canada desperate to flee escalating violence in the Gaza Strip has been approved to leave the besieged territory as of today. The names of 135 Canadians are...
Nov 19, 2023