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Black Friday shopping in a pandemic: COVID-19 closes some stores, sales move online
Black Friday, the one-day shopping bonanza known for its big bargains and large crowds, has arrived. While rising COVID-19 cases and weeks of staggered deals have muted the usual fanfare of the shoppi...
Nov 27, 2020
Academic detained in Iran for 2 years returns to Australia
CANBERRA, Australia - Academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has arrived back in Australia and will soon reunite with her family after more than two years in an Iranian prison. Moore-Gilbert was met by public h...
Nov 27, 2020
Brazilians mourn death of Argentinian archrival Maradona
SAO PAULO - Brazil and Argentina are long rivals for soccer supremacy in South America, and Brazilians naturally think of their own Pel as the best footballer in history. But they are putting aside th...
Nov 26, 2020
Trump says he'll leave if Electoral College seats Biden
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden's victory - even as he insisted such a decision would...
Nov 26, 2020
Tory MP Duncan pushes Health Minister to finally end the gay blood ban
OTTAWA - Eric Duncan, the first openly gay Conservative MP, laced into the federal health minister Thursday over the Liberals failure to end a ban on gay men donating blood. In a heated and emotional ...
Nov 26, 2020
Venezuela judge convicts 6 American oil execs, orders prison
CARACAS, Venezuela - Six American oil executives held for three years in Venezuela were found guilty of corruption charges by a judge Thursday and immediately sentenced to prison, defence lawyers said...
Nov 26, 2020
'No crying': Venezuelan refugee Kenney cited says interaction was less dramatic
EDMONTON - The Venezuelan woman who believes she was used as part of Jason Kenney's argument not to lockdown restaurants in the province remembers her encounter with the premier as less dramatic than ...
Nov 26, 2020
Province improves access to trucking jobs
The provincial government has established a grant program and a training program to get more truck drivers behind the wheel.In a release, the government says a $3-million Driving Back to Work grant pr...
Nov 26, 2020
Innisfail RCMP Charity Checkstop postponed
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the postponement of another holiday tradition in central Alberta as this year's Innisfail RCMP Charity Checkstop has been postponed. This means no items are being coll...
Nov 26, 2020
Blackfalds adjusts to new public health measures
In response to the provincial government's state of public health emergency, new mandatory measures will be implemented in the Town of Blackfalds starting Nov. 30.As per Bylaw 1253.20, the public is n...
Nov 26, 2020