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A dog's purpose: the importance of dog guides in CanadaMore than 3,000 dog guides have been trained to help people with disabilities in Canada since 1983. While the disabled acquire the dogs for free,...
May 23, 2019 Photo credit: Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides on Facebook
HALIFAX - Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, arrived in Halifax on Thursday for a brief, low-key visit. As the colonel-in-chief of the Princess Louise Fusiliers, a Halifax-based reserve unit, Andrew too...
May 23, 2019
EDMONTON - The first question period for the new government at the Alberta legislature got dirty in a hurry.Premier Jason Kenney and Opposition Leader Rachel Notley swapped accusations of criminal beh...
May 23, 2019 Premier Jason Kenney and Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley after a photo-op with senators in Edmonton on Thursday. (Amber Bracken/Canadian Press)
It was high-fives and congrats at Mattie McCullough Elementary on Thursday where 340 graduating Hunting Hill students took a stroll through the halls in their caps and gowns."I thought it was a really...
May 23, 2019 Grade one student Avelynn Grzyb receives a high-five from a Hunting Hills grad. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)
A local man convicted previously for sexually assaulting and harassing women is back behind bars following an incident last week. City Mounties responded to the Superstore parking lot in Red Deer on M...
May 23, 2019 Daniel Leonard (file photo)
PORTLAND, Maine - Marijuana enthusiasts in Maine used a public hearing Thursday to implore the state to protect the small businesses and growers they think should make up the backbone of its budding c...
May 23, 2019
LOS ANGELES - An arbitrator has upheld Slava Voynov's one-season NHL suspension but is giving him credit for serving half of it in 2018-19. Commissioner Gary Bettman suspended the former Los Angeles K...
May 23, 2019
Shares of Tesla, suffering one of the worst stretches in company history, rebounded Thursday after CEO Elon Musk told employees that orders are up. The company's stock closed up 1.4% to $195.49 on a v...
May 23, 2019
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia court is set to rule Friday whether the province can restrict shipments of diluted bitumen through its borders, in what will be a crucial decision for the future of the ...
May 23, 2019
LOS ANGELES - In its last blast, "The Big Bang Theory" topped the TV ratings by a light-year. The back-to-back, two-episode finale of the nerdy CBS comedy's 12-season run drew 18.5 million live viewer...
May 23, 2019