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Canadian kicker Lirim Hajrullahu gets shot with NFL's Carolina Panthers
Canadian kicker Lirim Hajrullahu has signed with the Carolina Panthers and will join the NFL team's practice squad.The 29-year-old resident of Oakville, Ont., was cut in training camp by the Los Angel...
Dec 09, 2020
U.S. issues challenge to Canada's dairy quotas in first test of new trade agreement
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States is formally accusing Canada of unfairly limiting the ability of American dairy producers to sell their products north of the border. Robert Lighthizer, President D...
Dec 09, 2020
Rocky town council approves 2021 budget with no increase in tax and utility rates
Rocky Mountain House town council has passed the balanced 2021 Operating and Capital Budget with total revenues of $30,121,308 and a total of $26,519,387 expenditures.The budget holds the line on muni...
Dec 09, 2020
Red Deer Public Schools reports high attendance in first week of temporary online learning
Officials with Red Deer Public Schools are reporting high attendance virtually for students in Grades 7-12 since moving to temporary online learning last week.The district says daily attendance has av...
Dec 09, 2020
Quebec government lawyers tell court Bill 21 is not a violation of freedoms
MONTREAL - The Quebec government does not believe its secularism law violates freedom of religion, but rather it serves to frame it, a lawyer argued today.It was the turn of those defending the law kn...
Dec 09, 2020
US govt, states bring antitrust action against Facebook
WASHINGTON - Federal regulators asked Wednesday for Facebook to be ordered to divest its Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services as the U.S. government and 48 states and districts accused the compan...
Dec 09, 2020
Woman abused by school band teacher gets $2M settlement
SEATTLE - A school district in Washington state has agreed to a $2 million settlement after a woman sued over sexual abuse by a band teacher 30 years ago - a trauma so profound she said it caused her ...
Dec 09, 2020
UCP MLA asks elected officials to take 20% pay cut
MEDICINE HAT, AB - A United Conservative MLA says he and his colleagues should be reigning in their paycheques.Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Drew Barnes issued a letter Wednesday calling on his "colleagues...
Dec 09, 2020
Gunman behind mass shooting in Nova Scotia had targets in Halifax: search warrants
HALIFAX - Newly released documents suggest the gunman behind the April mass shooting in Nova Scotia had planned to "get" a pair of people in Halifax during his murderous rampage, but the Mounties were...
Dec 09, 2020
Pennsylvania governor says he's tested positive for COVID-19
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has tested positive for COVID-19 and is isolating at home. The second-term Democrat said a routine test on Tuesday detected the coronavirus. "I have no sym...
Dec 09, 2020