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Renault delays decision on Fiat Chrysler marriage proposal
PARIS - Renault has delayed a decision on whether to merge with Fiat Chrysler, a deal that could reshape the global auto industry as carmakers race to make electric and autonomous vehicles for the mas...
Jun 04, 2019
Newfoundland's Gavin Tucker returns to action at UFC 240 in Edmonton
Canadian featherweight Gavin (The Newfoundland Terror) Tucker returns to action July 27 when he meets South Korea's Seungwoo Choi at UFC 240 in Edmonton. Tucker, a 32-year-old from Ship Cove, N.L., ha...
Jun 04, 2019
Well suspended after produced water spills into wetland northeast of Drayton Valley
The Alberta Energy Regulator has ordered an oil and gas company to suspend a well and associated infrastructure after a produced water spill northeast of Drayton Valley.The AER says Obsidian Energy be...
Jun 04, 2019
Education of Nunavut high school students, adult learners found wanting: auditor
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut is failing to prepare its high school and mature students for further education or for the working world, says a highly critical report from the federal auditor general...
Jun 04, 2019
City Mountie knocked unconscious in downtown assault
(June 10) Red Deer RCMP advise that Rad Rondeau was arrested without incident on Monday. He is currently in police custody awaiting a judicial interim release hearing.--- (June 5)An arrest warrant has...
Jun 04, 2019 Rad Rondeau
Province tables bill to allow municipalities to provide tax breaks
EDMONTON, AB - The provincial government is introducing amendments to the Municipal Government Act with the goal of helping municipalities attract investment and development.Bill 7, the Municipal Gove...
Jun 04, 2019
Explosion on 'Bond 25' set causes injury, damage to studio
NEW YORK - An explosion on the set of the new James Bond movie has injured one crew member and damaged a stage at Pinewood Studios. The film's official Twitter account said the accident Tuesday came f...
Jun 04, 2019
Canadian veterans prepare to return to Juno Beach for 75th anniversary of D-Day
OTTAWA - Albert Roy was a fresh-faced 20-year-old from St. Jean Baptiste, Man., when Canadian, American and British troops stormed ashore on D-Day to begin the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi c...
Jun 04, 2019
Alberta makes it official: Bill passed and proclaimed to kill carbon tax
EDMONTON - Alberta's consumer carbon tax is now officially gone. Members of the legislature voted last night to pass the bill that repeals the tax, and it was signed into law by Lt.-Gov. Lois Mit...
Jun 04, 2019
Holocaust to Cambodia to Rwanda: A list of acts considered genocide
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he accepts a finding that Canada's treatment of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls amounts to genocide. The term is used numerous times in the...
Jun 04, 2019