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$20,000 raised for families affected by workplace fatalities and injuries
Red Deer's annual Steps for Life event raised close to $20,000 on Saturday with North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week kicking off Sunday.Participants, as well as 30 volunteers, ma...
May 05, 2019 (Kael Clark)
Investigation ongoing after man killed in alleged 'domestic matter'
CALGARY - Police in Calgary are investigating after a man in his 40s was killed in what they allege was a "domestic matter.''The City says in a statement that officers were called to a home in the cit...
May 05, 2019 (Canadian Press)
Edmonton school shooting film about gay-straight alliances
EDMONTON - Students at an Edmonton high school are making a movie about gay-straight alliances."One Voice'' is a musical being shot at Victoria School of the Arts, and it tells the story of a group of...
May 05, 2019 (Canadian Press/Eduardo Lima)
Baloney Meter: is climate change increasing the cost of insurance in Canada?
OTTAWA - "We can see that climate change is causing an increase to the cost of insurance in this country." - Karen McCrimmon, parliamentary secretary to Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, May 1, 20...
May 05, 2019
Kelly Clarkson had appendix removed after hosting awards
LOS ANGELES - Kelly Clarkson had her appendix removed soon after hosting the Billboard Music Awards. The 37-year-old tweeted she "may or may not have broken down in tears after the show from pain." Sh...
May 05, 2019
Green party targets use of tax money for political attack billboards
VANCOUVER - Green party Leader Andrew Weaver is calling for a ban on the use of taxpayer money for political attack ads after the B.C. Liberals bought billboards blaming Premier John Horgan ...
May 05, 2019
Cyprus serial killer suspect accused of raping other woman
NICOSIA, Cyprus - A Cyprus police investigator says a man who has confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls on the island is being investigated on additional charges of raping a foreign woman...
May 05, 2019
Maximum Security owner: Derby disqualification 'egregious'
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Maximum Security co-owner Gary West criticized race stewards' disqualification of his horse's Kentucky Derby victory as "egregious" and said he was pondering his next step, including...
May 05, 2019
Let's make a Brexit deal, UK PM May tells Labour opposition
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May says her Conservative government and the opposition Labour Party have a duty to strike a compromise Brexit agreement to end months of political deadlock ove...
May 05, 2019
Israeli man killed by rocket amid massive firing from Gaza
JERUSALEM - An early morning rocket from the Gaza Strip killed an Israeli man Sunday outside a home in the coastal city of Ashkelon amid a massive wave of attacks, marking the first Israeli casualty f...
May 05, 2019