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Sylvan Lake Municipal Library offering drop-in programs during school break
School may be out for a week but the Sylvan Lake Municipal Library has a few tricks up their sleeve to keep the kids entertained. This February, the library is hosting drop-in events for families and ...
Feb 07, 2022

Red Deer Polytechnic Athletics Recap
The Red Deer Polytechnic Kings and Queens may have had a few bumpy road games, but came out strong overall this past week.The Polytechnic Queens Basketball team defeated the SAIT Trojans twice. The Ki...
Feb 07, 2022

Expanded Holocaust museum coming to Montreal in 2025 to include hologram testimonials
MONTREAL - A bigger, more interactive and more modern Holocaust museum will be opening its doors in Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood in 2025. If everything goes as planned, the opening of t...
Feb 07, 2022

Supreme Court's Wagner says justice system must continue modernizing beyond pandemic
OTTAWA - Canada's chief justice says those working in the justice system must continue to build on innovations put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Richard Wagner says "there is no turning back"...
Feb 07, 2022

Who's in, who's out and who else could join the race to lead the Conservative party
OTTAWA - As the race to replace Erin O'Toole as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada gets underway, here's a look at the contest so far: Who's in: Pierre Poilievre: The 42-year-old Ottawa-area M...
Feb 07, 2022

Justice Dept. signals it may allow safe injection sites
NEW YORK (AP) - A year after winning a major court battle against the opening of so-called safe injection sites -- safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics with protections against fat...
Feb 07, 2022

Stampeders president/GM Hufnagel not expecting to be active in CFL free agency
John Hufnagel isn't expecting to be a major player when CFL free agency begins Tuesday. That's not a huge surprise given Calgary's president/GM has spent much of the off-season re-signing many of the ...
Feb 07, 2022

Ukraine crisis talks move to Moscow and Washington
MOSCOW (AP) - International efforts to defuse the standoff over Ukraine intensified Monday, with French President Emmanuel Macron holding talks in Moscow and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washingto...
Feb 07, 2022

StatCan to release COVID-tinged census figure, experts warn against reading too deep
OTTAWA - For the last 40 years, Doug Norris has pored over detailed demographic data gleaned from every census, but even he admits what's coming will be unlike anything he has seen before. Statistics ...
Feb 07, 2022

Province announces funding for Workforce Partnerships program
EDMONTON, AB - The provincial government has announced a string of new partnerships to boost Alberta's workforce and help residents find good jobs.A $1.53 million investment under the Workforce Partne...
Feb 07, 2022