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Alberta finishes strong at 2025 Canada Summer Games
Team Alberta served up a strong finish at the 2025 Canada Summer Games on Sunday.The provincial squadron closed out competition in St. John's, Newfoundland with five additional medals, ending with 86 ...
Aug 25, 2025
Carney visiting Berlin to boost trade, defence ties
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Germany late Monday, looking to boost trade and defence ties with Europe's largest economy. Carney is moving to align Canada more closely with Europe as ...
Aug 25, 2025
LeBlanc set to meet Lutnick in Washington after Ottawa drops some tariffs
WASHINGTON - Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is set to meet with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington this week after Ottawa announced it would be lifting some retaliatory t...
Aug 25, 2025
Central Alberta under heat wave expected to last all week
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) says Red Deer and much of central Alberta will be under a heat event that's expected to last over the next seven days.Beginning Monday, daytime high temper...
Aug 25, 2025
Maine clinics denied Medicaid funds during lawsuit after Trump cuts to abortion providers
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A network of clinics in Maine will not resume getting Medicaid funds to treat thousands of low-income patients during its lawsuit over Trump administration cuts to abortion prov...
Aug 25, 2025
Asked about Chinese ferry deal, Gregor Robertson says 'buy Canada' policy needs work
COQUITLAM - Gregor Robertson, the minister responsible for the federal agency that helped fund a BC Ferries contract to buy ships from China, says Canada needs to "catch up" with the United States whe...
Aug 25, 2025
CP NewsAlert: Following destructive wildfires, New Brunswick reopens forest access
New Brunswick is lifting most of the restrictions it had imposed on access to Crown land. The provincial government had banned public access to forests to reduce the risk of more wildfires erupting. O...
Aug 25, 2025
Auditor general to study the modernization of the federal pay system
OTTAWA - The federal government's troubled attempt to modernize its pay system will be probed by the federal auditor general as the government begins its move to another new payroll program. Ottawa an...
Aug 25, 2025
Long-elusive Mexican drug lord Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada pleads guilty in US
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges related to his role in the violent drug trade that for years flooded the U.S. with cocai...
Aug 25, 2025
Red Deer motorcyclist killed in Friday night collision
A collision on Friday night between a pick-up truck and a motorcycle claimed the life of a 27-year-old Red Deer resident.Red Deer RCMP responded to the collision on Aug. 22 at 9:54 p.m., which took pl...
Aug 25, 2025