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Local charities invited to apply for $135K in gender equality grant funding
The Red Deer & District Community Foundation (RDDCF) has announced it will provide $135,000 to local organizations working to support women, girls, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse individuals in an ...
Oct 28, 2020
City cleaning up community grant process
The City of Red Deer is working to clean up and modernize its processes for handling community grants. City council has authorized administration to continue to review Red Deer's Community Development...
Oct 28, 2020
Alberta NDP calls for more COVID-19 contact tracers as case numbers rise
EDMONTON - Alberta's Opposition leader says the government needs to sharply ramp up the number of contact tracers if it wants to get a handle on the rising number of COVID-19 cases.NDP Leader Rachel N...
Oct 28, 2020
Cammie Laird sworn in as new Reeve for Clearwater County
Cammie Laird is the new Clearwater County Reeve after being sworn in during an organizational meeting on Tuesday. County CAO Rick Emmons started the meeting off by calling for nominations from council...
Oct 28, 2020
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): --- 11 a.m. Ontario is reporting 834 new cases of COVID-19 and five more deaths linked to the novel coronavirus. Another 773 cas...
Oct 28, 2020
Move to Canada? A pipe dream for some Americans is a parachute for Canadian expats
WASHINGTON, Wash. - When people in the United States talk about moving to Canada to escape four more years of Donald Trump, it's usually either a punchline or a pipe dream. Ask some of the roughly 800...
Oct 28, 2020
Blanchet demands apology from Trudeau for War Measures Act, passed 50 years ago
OTTAWA - Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet is calling on the government to apologize for legislation that remains controversial 50 years after its passage during the October Crisis in Quebec.I...
Oct 28, 2020
Trial hears N.B. gunman felt he was surrounded by 'demons,' had to fight his way out
The man on trial for a 2018 mass shooting in Fredericton says he thought the end of times had begun and he might have to use his guns to fight his way out of his apartment. Matthew Raymond, 50, ...
Oct 28, 2020
Voting history of Detroit woman, 103, dates back to FDR
DETROIT - Talu Massey is among the millions of Americans who voted before Nov. 3, resulting in record-breaking early turnout. But it's far from the Detroit resident's first election. Very far. She vot...
Oct 28, 2020
Culture to become latest front in military's fight against sexual misconduct
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is diving into the age-old question of what constitutes "military culture" as part of its latest plan to eliminate what it calls the "wicked problem" of sexual misco...
Oct 28, 2020