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Full UCP platform takes front and centre
On day 12 of the Alberta election trail, UCP leader Jason Kenney unveiled his party's full platform.Early this afternoon, Kenney announced his party would achieve a surplus by 2022/23.The NDP's Rachel...
Mar 30, 2019
Education, healthcare priorities for NDP's O'Brien
Education and healthcare funding are two areas of concern the NDP candidate for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake is focusing on during the provincial election campaign.Robyn O'Brien says a lot of people are worr...
Mar 30, 2019 Innisfail-Sylvan Lake NDP candidate Robyn O'Brien (supplied photo)
Snow & Ice control, Adopt a Spot, and Pogadl Park update
The Town of Sylvan Lake is tweaking its Snow and Ice Control policy to better deal with accumulations that don't necessarily meet the plowing trigger.Council voted this week to add what is called a se...
Mar 30, 2019 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Port Moody, B.C., mayor takes leave of absence to fight sex assault charge
PORT MOODY, B.C. - The mayor of Port Moody, B.C., says he is taking a leave of absence to clear his name after being charged with sexual assault. Robert Vagramov says he plans to fight the c...
Mar 30, 2019
Trade panel: Boeing got unfair US tax break, hurting Airbus
GENEVA - Delivering final word in a nearly 14-year standoff, a World Trade Organization body has ruled that Boeing received an illegal U.S. tax break from Washington state that damaged sales by Europe...
Mar 30, 2019
Quebec teachers, religious groups denounce government's secularism bill
MONTREAL - The Quebec government's secularism legislation threatens to stall promising careers, embolden intolerant segments of society and turn religious minorities into second-class citize...
Mar 30, 2019
Leaders to square off in debate Thursday
A debate featuring the leaders of Alberta's main political parties will take place in Edmonton this Thursday, April 4. The 90-minute televised debate will get underway starting at 5:30 p.m. MT. The de...
Mar 30, 2019
Life sentence issued for murder of Muslim teen in Virginia
FAIRFAX, Va. - A man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for raping and killing a Muslim teenager in Virginia as she walked back to a mosque with friends for pre-dawn religious services. The life...
Mar 30, 2019
Federal legalization of hemp creates quandary for US police
PORTLAND, Ore. - Federal legalization of hemp arrived in the U.S. late last year and expanded an industry already booming because of the skyrocketing popularity of CBDs, a compound in hemp that many s...
Mar 30, 2019
Top bureaucrat wrote 60-page memo to Trudeau about Mark Norman case, lawyer says
OTTAWA - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's lawyer says she wants to see a secret 60-page memo the federal government's top bureaucrat penned to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about her client's case. Lawyer M...
Mar 30, 2019