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COVID-19 numbers hold steady locally as provincial cases continue to rise
Alberta saw another sizeable jump in COVID-19 cases on Monday with 164 reported. That brings the total number of cases in the province to 14,066.The number of active cases in Alberta sits at 1,398, an...
Sep 01, 2020

Donations down significantly for Tools for School program
Donations for a local program that ensures every student in central Alberta has the supplies they need for school each year are still way down.That according to Barb Barber, Executive Director at Wome...
Sep 01, 2020

Red Deer on list of communities targeted for more continuing care spaces
Red Deer is among 31 communities listed as the province seeks to create more spaces for seniors and vulnerable people in Alberta.Alberta Health Services is seeking expressions of interest from existin...
Sep 01, 2020

Large antibody study offers hope for virus vaccine efforts
Antibodies that people make to fight the new coronavirus last for at least four months after diagnosis and do not fade quickly, as some earlier reports suggested, scientists have found. Tuesday's repo...
Sep 01, 2020

Peavey Industries converting its Ontario stores to single brand
Red Deer-based Peavey Industries LP has announced the repositioning of its two flagship retail banners into one, with the conversion of TSC Stores, located solely in Ontario, into Peavey Mart stores.C...
Sep 01, 2020

Former British Columbia chief justice Lance Finch dies at 82
VANCOUVER - Lance S.G. Finch, a former chief justice of British Columbia, has died at the age of 82. Chief Justice Robert J. Bauman says as a judicial leader, Finch was strong, steady a...
Sep 01, 2020

COVID-19 in schools inevitable, cost to reduce class sizes unrealistic: Kenney
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he's accepted all along that COVID-19 infections in schools are inevitable and that's no reason to keep classrooms shuttered.His remarks come after a school in Okotok...
Sep 01, 2020

Miranda Lambert leads CMA noms, Luke Combs' streak continues
NASHVILLE - Country star Miranda Lambert turns her "Wildcard" into an ace as she's the leading nominee at the 2020 Country Music Association Awards, including her first entertainer of the year nominat...
Sep 01, 2020

Music world to conductor Seiji Ozawa: Happy 85th birthday
BOSTON - The Boston Symphony Orchestra is asking the music world to help it celebrate former conductor Seiji Ozawa's 85th birthday Tuesday. The orchestra is encouraging fans to honour his birthday on ...
Sep 01, 2020

Deceased former principal secretary of N.B. vice-regal office embezzled funds: RCMP
FREDERICTON - A senior civil servant who had control of the former New Brunswick lieutenant-governor's finances is accused of siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds ...
Sep 01, 2020