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RCMP encourage residents to squash seasonal crime this fall
With many Albertans closing up their seasonal properties for the year, Mounties remind residents that when winterizing your property, it's important to keep crime prevention in mind. In 2022, Alberta ...
Oct 12, 2023
Quebec premier inaugurates vast la Romaine hydro project on North Shore
HAVRE-ST-PIERRE, Que. - Quebec Premier Franois Legault is inaugurating la Romaine hydroelectric complex on the province's North Shore. Legault is accompanied at today's event by Jean Charest, who was ...
Oct 12, 2023
Canada's Leylah Fernandez advances to quarterfinals at Hong Kong Open
HONG KONG - Canada's Leylah Fernandez advanced to the quarterfinals of the Hong Kong Open with 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over Russia's Mirra Andreeva on Thursday. The 21-year-old Fernandez fired four aces...
Oct 12, 2023
'What about Gaza': Canadian woman stuck in Gaza fears death, pleads for Ottawa's help
MISSISSAUGA - A Canadian woman trapped in Gaza says she is afraid she could die at any moment as Israeli warplanes drop bombs around her in the sealed-off Palestinian territory, and she's pleading for...
Oct 12, 2023
'It was intolerable'; Ottawa local testifies at trial of 'Freedom Convoy' organizers
OTTAWA - Local Ottawa resident Sarah Gawman told an Ottawa courtroom today that the sound of horn honking during the ``Freedom Convoy'' was incessant and intolerable. Gawman is the first civilian witn...
Oct 12, 2023
Canadian military flight leaves Tel Aviv with 130 people on board: defence minister
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Bill Blair says a Royal Canadian Air Force plane has left Tel Aviv with 130 people on board. The departures board at the airport shows that flight CFC 4169 left for Athens th...
Oct 12, 2023
Province boosting support for women in STEM
Women pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields can now apply for the Women in STEM Scholarship.Oct. 8-14 is Women in STEM Week and Alberta's government says i...
Oct 12, 2023
Supreme Court of Canada refuses to hear Hells Angels appeal of B.C. forfeiture ruling
OTTAWA - A nearly two decade-long court battle over the fate of three Hells Angels clubhouses in British Columbia has likely been ended by the Supreme Court of Canada's refusal to hear an appeal from ...
Oct 12, 2023
Stark, Meechai take 1st-round lead at LPGA Shanghai in tour's return to China after pandemic
SHANGHAI (AP) - Maja Stark and Wichanee Meechai each shot 6-under 66 on Thursday to take a two-stroke first-round lead at the LPGA Shanghai event in the tour's return to China after the COVID-19 pande...
Oct 12, 2023
Hurricanes and Broncos both losers in WHL Wednesday action
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. Nate Danielson scored the game-winning goal 3;53 into overtime to lead the Brandon Wheat Kings past the Lethbridge Hurricanes 1-0. Carson Bjarnason recorded a 36-save shutout for Bra...
Oct 12, 2023