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Halifax museum honours legacy of former member of Canadian-U.S. Black Devils
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia member of the famed Canada-U.S. Second World War army unit known as the Black Devils has been honoured with a new museum exhibit in Halifax. Herb Peppard of Truro, N.S., d...
Nov 10, 2019
Liberation: Canada’s connection to the Netherlands
Lethbridge, AB - On May 5, 1945 the remaining German forces surrendered thanks to the hard work of Canadians and other allied forces, resulting in the liberation of the Netherlands.Next year marks the...
Nov 10, 2019 Private Frederick Taylor Forbes is one of many Canadians buried at the Holten Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands (Photo: Jessie Weisner, CHAT News Today, Medicine Hat)
Snowfall warning continues across S.E. Alberta
Medicine Hat, AB - A snowfall warning continues to be in place for cities and counties across southeastern Alberta as Hatters dig out from the snow that has fallen in the last 24 hours.Another 5 cm of...
Nov 10, 2019 Snow covers Medicine Hat Sunday morning.
Kenney announces ‘Fair Deal Panel’ to advance Alberta’s interests
Red Deer, AB - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced the creation of a panel that will examine ways to make his province more independent of Ottawa in a speech to the conservative Manning Centre on S...
Nov 10, 2019
Alberta alters rules on oil production limits to spur more conventional drilling
EDMONTON - Alberta is adjusting its rules on oil production limits to give companies incentive to drill more conventional wells. Energy Minister Sonya Savage says that starting immediately a...
Nov 10, 2019
Pallister says Canada can unite on climate action if partisan politics set aside
OTTAWA - Giving clear indications that he's prepared to broker a truce between the federal Liberals and his more disgruntled Prairie counterparts, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister said he offered stra...
Nov 10, 2019
NewsAlert: Sportsnet apologizes for Don Cherry's anti-immigrant comments
TORONTO - Sportsnet has apologized for TV commentator Don Cherry's remarks on Saturday night's Coach's Corner segment. The network says Cherry's remarks are discriminatory and offensive and do&nb...
Nov 10, 2019 Don Cherry
NewsAlert: Sportsnet apologizes for Don Cherry's anti-immigrant comments
TORONTO - Sportsnet has apologized for TV commentator Don Cherry's remarks on Saturday night's Coach's Corner segment. The network says Cherry's remarks are discriminatory and offensive and do&nb...
Nov 10, 2019
Ontario's memorial to veterans of Afghanistan war ready for next Remembrance Day
TORONTO - A memorial to honour veterans of the war in Afghanistan that is being built on the grounds of the Ontario legislature will include a stone from an Inukshuk that stood at Kandahar Airfield as...
Nov 10, 2019
Jury enters third day of deliberations in Halifax jail cell death case
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia jury has entered a third day of deliberations in the case of two special constables charged in the death of an impaired 41-year-old man who suffocated in a ...
Nov 10, 2019