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Coal company asks court to quash order for federal environmental review of expansion
A coal company is asking Federal Court today to toss out a decision by Canada's environment minister that a proposed Alberta mine expansion should get a full federal environmental review. Coalspur Min...
May 19, 2021

Preparing your plants and garden for snowfall
MEDICINE HAT, AB - For those who spent the warm weather gardening or are planning to garden, the upcoming snow in our forecast may throw a wrench in those plans.Art Van Dam, Owner of Windmill Garden C...
May 19, 2021

City doing flood protection training on Friday
MEDICINE HAT, AB - City crews will perform a flood protection training session on Friday, which will block off the Provincial Law Courts parkade from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.The training session will focus on...
May 19, 2021

Restrictions lifting as COVID infections slow; Ontario resumes non-urgent procedures
TORONTO - A slowdown in new COVID-19 infections across much of the country along with rising vaccination numbers has political and health authorities easing restrictions put in place to curb the pande...
May 19, 2021

Posthumous John le Carré novel to be published in October
LONDON (AP) - A final novel by John le Carr will be published this fall, 10 months after the spy writer's death at the age of 89. Publisher Viking said Wednesday that "Silverview," le Carr's 26th nove...
May 19, 2021

Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede take on Canada Day
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede have another summer event under their belt.Canada Day celebrations will be held at the Stampede grounds.The city made that announcement Wedn...
May 19, 2021

Fashion mogul Peter Nygard applies to Supreme Court to appeal bail decision
WINNIPEG - A Canadian fashion mogul facing sex trafficking and racketeering charges in the United States is looking to the Supreme Court of Canada to get out of jail. Peter Nygard has applied to the c...
May 19, 2021

Alberta premier not ready to give green light for Oilers fans to enter arena
EDMONTON - Alberta's premier is not ready to follow Quebec's lead in allowing hockey fans to attend NHL playoff games. Jason Kenney says Alberta currently has much higher COVID-19 numbers than Quebec....
May 19, 2021

Quebec orderly says colleague admitted to deleting video on phone of Joyce Echaquan
MONTREAL - A hospital orderly told a coroner's inquest today one of her colleagues had admitted to being filmed by Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous patient who died at the facility on Sept. 28, 2020. The...
May 19, 2021

Illinois officer, suspect dead after exchange of gunfire
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - A central Illinois police officer died Wednesday after being shot by a suspect in a domestic disturbance who also was killed in an exchange of gunfire that left a second officer...
May 19, 2021