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Health foundation raises $250,000 for Rocky Health Centre
Local generosity continues and is highlighted by recent upgrades to the Rocky Mountain House Health Centre's operating room funded through the Rocky and Area Health Foundation and community members.In...
Dec 22, 2020
Local homeless to benefit from Lacombe boy's generosity
A local 12-year-old boy has embraced the spirit of giving this holiday season in support of those less fortunate in our community.Gabe Hultink, a Grade 7 student at cole Lacombe Junior High School, br...
Dec 22, 2020
Three Hamilton Police Service officers stabbed, suffer serious injuries: police
HAMILTON - The Hamilton Police Service says three of its officers are being treated in hospital for stab wounds after responding to reports of an armed man in crisis on a city street.Const. Krista-Lee...
Dec 22, 2020
Red Deer records third COVID-19 death
A third death has now been reported in relation to a COVID-19 outbreak at a seniors living facility in Red Deer.The death of a man in his sixties on Dec. 11 is linked to the outbreak at Points West Li...
Dec 22, 2020
Train cars carrying crude oil derail, burn north of Seattle
BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Seven train cars carrying crude oil derailed Tuesday and five caught fire north of Seattle close to the Canadian border, authorities said. The derailment occurred in the downtown C...
Dec 22, 2020
Judge who visited protest teepee on Regina legislature grounds faces judicial review
REGINA - A judge who visited a Metis man at his protest camp on Saskatchewan's legislature grounds after ruling he was entitled to stay there is facing a review by his fellow judges. The Canadian Judi...
Dec 22, 2020
Anger, suspicion after Pakistani dissident Karima Mehrab found dead in Toronto
TORONTO - The apparent drowning death of an internationally prominent Pakistani dissident whose body was pulled from the water near downtown Toronto sparked anger, grief and suspicion on Tuesday.Polic...
Dec 22, 2020
"Tampa Bay Raptaneers" set to tip off bizarre regular season against Pelicans
Before team president Masai Ujiri placed the lucky toonie in the Raptors' new practice floor, the team president held it aloft and said: "This is for the Tampa Bay Raptaneers." The joke was a referenc...
Dec 22, 2020
Louis Vuitton yoga mat made of leather draws Hindu complaint
BOSTON - A Hindu activist is calling on luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton to pull a yoga mat made partly from cowhide leather, calling it "hugely insensitive." Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Soc...
Dec 22, 2020
Canada and United Kingdom make stopgap deal to avert tariffs after Brexit
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada and Britain have agreed not to raise tariffs on each other's goods when the United Kingdom leaves the European Union at the end of the mont...
Dec 22, 2020