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Underdog Montreal Impact in for tough test against Honduran club CD Olimpia
Preparing to play has looked a little different for the Montreal Impact over the past few weeks. Instead of running on-field drills and refining tactics with teammates ahead of Tuesday's CONCACAF Cham...
Dec 14, 2020
Taber police lay assault charges at noisy party
TABER, AB - Police in Taber have laid two assault charges resulting from a noisy party complaint at around midnight on Friday.Upon arriving at the site of the complaint, Taber Police Service determine...
Dec 14, 2020
Salvation Army's first year for electronic "Tap to Give" option
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Salvation Army will no longer have volunteers ringing bells at their Christmas kettles in Alberta.It's part of new safety protocols to deal with COVID-19.The last day for volunt...
Dec 14, 2020
$2-million in damages estimated in farm shed fire near Taber
TABER, AB - A farm famous for its Taber corn has lost a significant supply of another product.At approximately midnight on Saturday, Dec. 12/Sunday, Dec.13, a large shed at Johnson Fresh Farms went up...
Dec 14, 2020
US COVID-19 deaths top 300,000 just as vaccinations begin
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 300,000 Monday just as the country began dispensing COVID-19 shots in a monumental campaign to conquer the outbreak. The number of dead rivals the popul...
Dec 14, 2020
Metal monolith pops up in Lethbridge, then mysteriously disappears
LETHBRIDGE, AB - It disappeared just as mysteriously as it arrived.A large metal monolith could be seen in Lethbridge Sunday, December 13. A monolith is a single large block made in the style of an ob...
Dec 14, 2020
Ottawa announces $3.16 billion to plant two billion trees over the next decade
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Canadian government says it will spend $3.16 billion over the next ten years to plant two billion trees across the country. Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan made the fu...
Dec 14, 2020
Vaccine comes too late for the 300,000 US dead
When Brittany Palomo was hired as a nurse in March, her parents tried to talk her out of it, fearful of the fast-spreading coronavirus. All the more reason, she told them, to start the career that had...
Dec 14, 2020
Alberta chief medical officer of health believes world junior hockey can be safe
EDMONTON - Alberta's top doctor is defending the province's decision to allow the world junior hockey championship to be played in Edmonton later this month while restrictions and cases mount during t...
Dec 14, 2020
Anti-racism task force calls for end to racial profiling in all Quebec police forces
MONTREAL - An anti-racism task force created by the Quebec premier last June is recommending that police across the province stop randomly stopping people. Junior health minister Lionel Carmant told r...
Dec 14, 2020