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Medicine Hat pub and Root Cellar partner to provide turkey meals to those in need at Christmas
Each year the Root Cellar helps provide pre-packaged Christmas meals for those in need in the community with the help of a local pub.Rosscos Pub helps take care of the preparation of the Turkeys, and ...
Dec 09, 2024
Alberta MLAs travelling to U.S. for year-end conferences
Alberta MLAs are heading to the United States for a year-end tour with lawmakers and other partners to set the stage for cooperation in 2025. The tour will begin with Justin Wright, MLA for Cypress-Me...
Dec 09, 2024
Alberta's school screenings 'lost instructional time' for teachers, advocate says
This January, the government will require students in kindergarten to undergo three new evaluations throughout the school year.Literacy and numeracy assessments in schools were implemented by the Albe...
Dec 09, 2024
AGLC makes multiple contraband tobacco busts
The Alberta Gaming Liquor and Cannabis's (AGLC) Tobacco Enforcement Unit and its partnering law enforcement agencies shared Monday that they made three successful seizures in November.In total, they f...
Dec 09, 2024
Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary devising AI data centre in northwest Alberta
The world's largest AI Data Centre Industrial Park "Wonder Valley" is in development stages to appear near Grande Prairie, Alta., in the Greenview Industrial Gateway.Alberta's minister of technology a...
Dec 09, 2024
LGBTQ+ groups pushing for speedy court process, halt to Alberta transgender bill
EDMONTON - LGBTQ+ advocate organizations say they're working as quickly as possible to ask a court to stop the Alberta government from bringing into force a transgender law they say will cause immedia...
Dec 09, 2024
Polygamous sect leader gets 50 years in prison in scheme to orchestrate sex involving children
PHOENIX (AP) - A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual "wives" including 10 underage girls was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Monday for coercing girls as young as 9 years...
Dec 09, 2024
6 Guatemalans arrested and charged with human smuggling in deadly 2021 Mexico truck crash
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Six Guatemalans are charged with human smuggling linked to a semi-trailer truck crash in Mexico in 2021 that killed more than 50 migrants and were arrested in Guatemala and Texas ...
Dec 09, 2024
FIFA vice-president says Canada's drone-spying at Olympics was 'completely stupid'
TORONTO - Canada's decision to deploy a drone to spy on a New Zealand training session at the Paris Olympics was "completely stupid," says FIFA vice-president Victor Montagliani. "In the sense that I ...
Dec 09, 2024
Toronto's 2026 World Cup office growing as tournament kickoff nears 500 days away
TORONTO - With Jan. 27 marking 500 days out from the 2026 World Cup kickoff, some 50-plus staff are fleshing out the Canadian end of the tournament at FIFA's Toronto office. The office has been around...
Dec 09, 2024