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Kinsmen draw $100,000 winner of 50/50 raffle
A Sylvan Laker is $100,000 richer today because of his support for the Red Deer Kinsmen 50/50 Cash Raffle.Darrell Elsbett's name was drawn Saturday afternoon at the parking lot next to the St. Joseph ...
Jan 10, 2021
Forced to travel during pandemic, Nunavut women want birthing services at home
IQALUIT, Nunavut - In October, Collette Nilaulak gave birth, alone, to her third child in a hospital room about 1,200 kilometres from her home in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. Pandemic restrictions meant one...
Jan 10, 2021
NHLers know not everyone's happy they're playing: 'We're not blind'
Connor McDavid knows what it looks like to some. Millionaire hockey players travelling province to province for games when everyone else is asked to refrain from doing anything remotely similar as the...
Jan 10, 2021
Top Republican says Trump committed 'impeachable offences'
WASHINGTON - Democrats' momentum for a fresh drive to quickly impeach outgoing President Donald Trump has gained support, and a top Republican said the president's role in the deadly riot at the Capit...
Jan 10, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine arrives in remote First Nations across Canada
First Nations across Canada have begun to receive doses of COVID-19 vaccines as provincial immunization programs get underway and Indigenous leaders encourage people to roll up their sleeves. Six of 1...
Jan 10, 2021
Canada's mission in Iraq at a crossroads as ISIL declines, new threats emerge
OTTAWA - More than six years after Canada first deployed troops to the Middle East to help fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, hundreds of Canadian Armed Forces personnel remain in the reg...
Jan 10, 2021
Sister in B.C. waits for little brother's ashes that seem to be lost in transit
VANCOUVER - Courtney Baker doesn't know what she's going to do with the urn she's picked out for her little brother's ashes. They were supposed to arrive by express post from Edmonton to Vancouver mor...
Jan 10, 2021
NHLers know not everyone's happy they're playing: 'We're not blind'
Connor McDavid knows what it looks like to some. Millionaire hockey players travelling province to province for games when everyone else is asked to refrain from doing anything remotely similar as the...
Jan 10, 2021
Australia, US, UK, Canada criticize Hong Kong mass arrests
CANBERRA, Australia - The foreign ministers of Australia, the United States, Great Britain and Canada issued a joint statement Sunday expressing "serious concern" about the arrest of 55 democracy acti...
Jan 10, 2021
Johnson under fire as UK again faces onslaught of COVID-19
LONDON - The crisis facing Britain this winter is depressingly familiar: Stay-at-home orders and empty streets. Hospitals overflowing. A daily toll of many hundreds of coronavirus deaths. The U.K. is ...
Jan 10, 2021