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Black Lives Matter protest planned for Medicine Hat
MEDICINE HAT, AB - A Black Lives Matter protest is being planned in Medicine Hat on Friday.A poster for the event says: "protesting in honour of George Floyd and the thousands killed by police brutali...
Jun 02, 2020
REDI Recycle offers new household beverage pickup service
MEDICINE HAT, AB - With months of sticking around home, you may have a collection of bottles piled up.And now you won't have to wait in line with REDI Recycling Centre and Bottle Depot's new bottle pi...
Jun 02, 2020
Turnbull hopes hockey helmet-sticker fundraiser helps heal home province
Blayre Turnbull knows how it feels to lose a parent at a young age. Her mother died of cancer when she was a teenager. So the Canadian women's hockey team forward wanted to help childre...
Jun 02, 2020
Liberals to ask MPs to OK $87 billion in new spending, fuelled by pandemic aid
OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals are asking parliamentarians to approve $60 billion in spending on a key COVID-19 emergency benefit for workers. The Liberals had expected the Canada Emergency Response Be...
Jun 02, 2020
Ontario mulls collection of race-based COVID-19 data; some argue it's essential
TORONTO - The importance of understanding the role race might play in the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted Ontario to look at regulatory changes to make collection of such data provincewide, the governm...
Jun 02, 2020
Fredette presents risk to public safety, correctional documents suggest
ST-JEROME, Que. - A Quebec man found guilty of two murders poses a high risk to public safety as well as a risk of evading authorities, correctional documents filed at his sentencing hearing suggest. ...
Jun 02, 2020
Trio of telephone town halls this week to aid businesses with reopening
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Medicine Hat & District Chamber of Commerce is alerting businesses to three telephone town halls this week for which registration closes today at 4:30 p.m.Economic Developme...
Jun 02, 2020
Als head coach Jones says he received death threats as CFL player in Winnipeg
Khari Jones says he received death threats while he was the quarterback of the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers because of his interracial marriage. Jones, entering his second season as the Montreal Alouet...
Jun 02, 2020
Suspected impaired driver misses child, damages vehicle and power pole
MEDICINE HAT - A man was taken into custody on suspicion of impaired driving Monday evening following a crash that narrowly missed a child, according to witnesses.The incident occurred around 7:30 p.m...
Jun 02, 2020
High-speed Spanish passenger train hits car on track; 2 dead
MADRID - Two people were killed when a high-speed passenger train with more than 150 people on board hit a car on the tracks in northwest Spain on Tuesday. Emergency services said the locomotive derai...
Jun 02, 2020