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Feds sign education agreement with Sunchild First Nation
Around 330 First Nations students in central Alberta will benefit following the signing of a Regional Education Agreement this past week in Edmonton.The signing involved Minister of Indigenous Service...
Jul 21, 2019 An agreement signed in Edmonton last week will benefit 330 students on Sunchild First Nation near Rocky Mountain House. (Government of Canada)
A year later, ceremony commemorates victims of the Danforth shooting
TORONTO - The names of the two people killed in a public shooting in Toronto's Greektown last year were read aloud in a ceremony meant to honour their memory Sunday afternoon. Those gathered...
Jul 21, 2019
Highway 2 / Gaetz Avenue Interchange –South Collector‐Distributor Road‐ Night Closures
Beginning Sunday July 21, 2019, there will be intermittent night closures of portions of the southbound collectordistributor road, southbound CD road ramps, Taylor Drive ramps and southbound Highway 2...
Jul 21, 2019 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Toronto FC playmaker Alejandro Pozuelo questionable to play Houston
Toronto FC will likely be without Alejandro Pozuelo when it hosts Houston on Saturday, with the Spanish playmaker still nursing a sore ankle. Pozuelo, after scoring his team-leading ninth goal of...
Jul 21, 2019
Large crowds attend Westerner Days as weather rebounds
The weather and attendance bounced back in a big way on day four of Westerner Days.Organizers say 24,132 guests came to the fair on Saturday, up from 21,000 on the same day last year.People were also ...
Jul 21, 2019 More than 24,000 people came to Westerner Days on Saturday, July 20. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)
Lowry wins British Open in celebrated return to Emerald Isle
PORTRUSH, Ireland - The long-awaited return of the British Open to Northern Ireland ended with Shane Lowry keeping the silver claret jug on the Emerald Isle. Even as the rain stopped, the tears began ...
Jul 21, 2019
Ontario attorney general invokes PM in spat over refugee legal aid
OTTAWA - Ontario's attorney general is taking his fight for more federal money for refugee legal aid to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Doug Downey, who took over as Ontario's attorney genera...
Jul 21, 2019
Stop CBSA policy requiring bulletproof vests in immigrant detention: advocates
OTTAWA - A group of doctors, lawyers, legal scholars and human-rights organizations is calling on the federal government to halt the rollout of a new policy that will see border officers outfitted in ...
Jul 21, 2019
NewsAlert: Shane Lowry wins British Open by 6 strokes for first major title
PORTRUSH, Ireland - Shane Lowry wins British Open by 6 strokes for first major title. The Associated Press
Jul 21, 2019
O'Regan to visit Attawapiskat at request of chief: minister's office
OTTAWA - The office of Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O'Regan says he will be visiting Attawapiskat First Nation at the request of the community's chief. The northern Ontario reserve declared a s...
Jul 21, 2019