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Lacombe city council approves operating budget amendments
Lacombe city council has approved amendments to the city's 2020 Operating Budget based on updated estimates for revenue and expenditures. In a release, City officials say the spring amendments conside...
May 13, 2020
Home sales tumble in April
With April being the first full month of having social distancing measures in place for the COVID-19 pandemic, there's little surprise that the local real estate market took a hit. According to new nu...
May 13, 2020
Sylvan Lake amenities remain closed for May Long Weekend
The May Long Weekend is typically heralded as the unofficial kick-off to the summer season. But officials with the Town of Sylvan Lake are reminding central Albertans to not come for a visit, and to s...
May 13, 2020
FBI offers US$1M reward in kidnapping of Coleman and Boyle
OTTAWA - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a reward of up to US$1 million for information directly leading to the arrest or prosecution of those responsible for the abduction of Caitlan ...
May 13, 2020
After profitable 2019, Blue Bombers brace for austerity in 2020
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have reported an overall operating profit of $3.5 million for the 2019 season, but their bottom line for 2020 is looking far darker. A rosy report for 2019 wa...
May 13, 2020
Red Deer Kinsmen Dream Home Lottery postponed
The Red Deer Kinsmen have postponed their 2020 Red Deer Kinsmen Dream Home Lottery due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The Kinsmen announced their "difficult decision" to do so on their Facebook page. "Every...
May 13, 2020
Looking back on the 2010-11 Red Deer Rebels
Outside of 2015-16 when they hosted the Memorial Cup and came within a goal of playing in the championship game, the most successful Red Deer Rebels season of the past decade came in 2010-11.Under the...
May 13, 2020
PM wants answers from China, other countries on early days of COVID-19
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there are many questions for countries, particularly China, around the origins of COVID-19 and how they reacted in the early days of the pandemic. At the sa...
May 13, 2020
UN forecasts pandemic to shrink world economy by 3.2%
TANZANIA, Tanzania - The United Nations forecast Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic will shrink the world economy by 3.2% this year, the sharpest contraction since the Great Depression in the 1930s....
May 13, 2020
Officials failed to protect Montreal's vulnerable neighbourhoods, activists say
MONTREAL - Some of Montreal's most disadvantaged neighbourhoods appear to be bearing the brunt of the city's COVID-19 numbers, leading community organizers to question why more wasn't done to protect ...
May 13, 2020