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5,800 years of droppings: Unique approach yields first long-term seabird trend data
Scientists have sifted through nearly 6,000 years of seabird droppings to get what they say could be the first long-term reading on how their numbers are affected by humans. A paper published today de...
Dec 07, 2020
Red Deer’s Cambridge hotel under new ownership
The Red Deer Cambridge Hotel and Conference Centre is under new ownership. O'Chiese Hospitality Limited Partnership assumed ownership and operations of the business on Nov. 2 from Temple Hotels Inc. G...
Dec 07, 2020
No Bojan, Jorge Corrales on Montreal Impact's Champions League roster
MONTREAL - Some big names will be missing from the lineup when the Montreal Impact return to the field. The club has announced its 25-man roster for next week's CONCACAF Champions League game in Orlan...
Dec 07, 2020
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of their names hold a prominent place...
Dec 07, 2020
2020 indelible TV moments: Trebek, debate bluster and Floyd
When the coronavirus pushed people out of the world and into homebound isolation, the small-screen's role grew bigger than ever. Television and its mobile iterations bore witness to a tumultuous year ...
Dec 07, 2020
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of their names hold a prominent place...
Dec 07, 2020
Prime Minister says first COVID-19 vaccine doses arriving this month
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the first COVID-19 vaccine doses are on track to arrive this month, as tough new measures took effect in Prince Edward Island and Ontario hit a new daily case record...
Dec 07, 2020
Bob Woodward to take on final days of Trump's presidency
NEW YORK - Bob Woodward's next book finds him in the familiar world of documenting a presidency's ending. Woodward is teaming with Washington Post colleague Robert Costa on a book about the waning day...
Dec 07, 2020
Adin Steinsaltz, groundbreaking Talmud translator, dies
JERUSALEM - Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, a prolific Jewish scholar who spent 45 years compiling a monumental and ground-breaking translation of the Talmud, has died. He was 83. The Steinsaltz Ce...
Dec 07, 2020
Alberta ditches registration stickers on licence plates, moves to reflective ones
EDMONTON - Starting in the New Year, Alberta licence plates will start to be sticker free.The province says the stickers, which mark the year and month of a vehicle's registration, have become redunda...
Dec 07, 2020