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Fresh, fast Paula Findlay finds triathlon success again
Less was more for Canadian triathlete Paula Findlay in 2020. After 12 months without a race, winning the World Championship Challenge at Florida's Daytona International Speedway has the 31-year-old fr...
Dec 10, 2020

Canadian police chiefs apologize for 1968 opposition to decriminalizing homosexuality
TORONTO - Canada's police chiefs are apologizing to LGBTQ communities for their opposition to decriminalizing homosexuality in the late 1960s. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police made the for...
Dec 10, 2020

Red Deer with 386 active COVID-19 cases as of Thursday
Alberta reported another 1,566 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.That's out of 16,793 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of about nine per cent.The province has 20,163 (corrected) a...
Dec 10, 2020

CBSA chief says sharing of Meng's passcodes was 'serious' breach
VANCOUVER - A Canada Border Services Agency manager says she didn't launch an investigation into how Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's cellphone passwords were shared with RCMP, but she informed the off...
Dec 10, 2020

Toronto Arrows re-sign veteran prop Rob Brouwer, add former Laval defensive lineman
TORONTO - The Toronto Arrows have re-signed veteran prop Rob Brouwer and added former Laval defensive lineman Marc-Antoine Ouellet. Brouwer, a 38-year-old from Lindsay, Ont., featured in two matches i...
Dec 10, 2020

Local restaurants again preparing for take-out and delivery only
News from the Alberta government on Tuesday that new public health measures were being implemented over the next several weeks came as no surprise to many businesses.Brennen Wowk, owner of Bo's Bar an...
Dec 10, 2020

Commons passes assisted-dying bill after Conservatives end filibuster
OTTAWA - A bill to expand access to medical assistance in dying was approved Thursday by the House of Commons after the Conservatives ended a days-long filibuster.Bill C-7 passed by a vote of 212-107,...
Dec 10, 2020

'Come out with your hands up.' Witness describes Nova Scotia killer's disturbing ruse
HALIFAX - Chilling details of a Nova Scotia couple's close encounter with a mass murderer have emerged from RCMP documents released this week, including a bizarre account of how the killer tried to co...
Dec 10, 2020

Blackfalds budget approved
Blackfalds town council has approved a municipal operating budget for 2021 worth $28.579 million.The budget comes in about $67,000 less than last year's, with council anticipating a 1.5 per cent prope...
Dec 10, 2020

CBS White House reporter Weijia Jiang is writing a memoir
NEW YORK - CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang is working on a memoir about her experiences as a Chinese American. One Signal Publishers, a Simon & Schuster imprint, announced Thursday...
Dec 10, 2020