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Firms with more robots also have more workers overall, Statistics Canada study says
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says domestic firms that invested in robots since the late 1990s have also expanded their human workforces, suggesting a less than "apocalyptic" result for workers overall. ...
Nov 02, 2020
Edmonton Oilers sign Draisaitl teammate Dominik Kahun
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Dominik Kahun, who has experience playing alongside Oilers star Leon Draisaitl.Kahun and the Oilers agreed to a one-year contract worth US$975,000.Th...
Nov 02, 2020
Prosecutors oppose release of Quebec woman accused of mailing poison to Donald Trump
Prosecutors in the United States say a Canadian woman accused of sending poisoned letters to President Donald Trump is too dangerous to be released. In a memo filed with the Washington D.C. district c...
Nov 02, 2020
Canada's alpine ski team navigates complex decisions to race this winter
Erik Read wants to "stay positive, test negative" on the longest road trip of his life. Valerie Grenier just completed her second quarantine at home in three months. Canada's alpine ski racers are tra...
Nov 02, 2020
Ellis Bird Farm site manager retires after 33 years
A local who helped change a farm east of Blackfalds into a beautiful nature sanctuary is calling it a career. After 33 years, site manager Myrna Pearman has retired from Ellis Bird Farm.On Oct. 30, th...
Nov 02, 2020
Rocky RCMP Report October 24-29
This is a report released to the media from the Rocky Mountain House (RMH) RCMP giving a brief description of various crimes and call-ins, both solved and unsolved throughout the community between the...
Nov 02, 2020
No budget yet for Liberals' promise to plant two billion trees by 2030
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's massive tree-planting promise from the 2019 election has yet to be allocated a single dime. Trudeau pledged a year ago that the government would plant tw...
Nov 02, 2020
Cilantro and Chive Burger of the Month donation to Lacombe Food Bank
Our guests were not afraid of no ghosts nor a burger on a black bun in October, and we'll call that a big YES for our Burger of the Month Program. We were thrilled to team up with Chad Carlson of the ...
Nov 02, 2020
Canadian soldier killed in Netherlands in Second World War identified
OTTAWA - The Defence Department says it's identified remains of a Canadian soldier buried in a cemetery in the Netherlands near the end of the Second World War. Trooper Henry George Johnston's identit...
Nov 02, 2020
Bruised and haunted, US holds tight as 2020 campaigns close
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Just over her mask, Patra Okelo's eyes brimmed with tears when she recalled the instant that a truth about America dawned and her innocence burned away. One moment on Aug. 11, 2...
Nov 02, 2020