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Meet and Greet with Olympic silver medalist Rebecca Smith
Central Albertans are being invited to enjoy a meet and greet with Olympic silver medalist and Red Deer native, Rebecca Smith on Wednesday.Back from the Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo recently, Smith w...
Aug 25, 2021
Canadian military drawdown will begin before Aug. 31 American deadline: Sajjan
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says the Canadian military will begin wrapping up its mission at Kabul airport ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline the United States set for ending the mission. Sajja...
Aug 25, 2021
Evacuation orders and alerts drop in B.C. as number of wildfires holds steady
VANCOUVER - Emergency Management BC says about 3,700 properties are on evacuation order, down from nearly 8,200 a week ago. A news release says nearly 11,300 properties are on evacuation alert - which...
Aug 25, 2021
Canadian cyclist Shaw, swimmer Rivard capture bronze at Paralympics
TOKYO - Settling herself onto her bike, Keely Shaw looked up at coach Sebastien Travers and said "I got this." The 27-year-old from Midale, Sask., held off a late surge from Australia's Meg Lemon to c...
Aug 25, 2021
New NY governor adds 12,000 deaths to publicized COVID tally
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul promised more government transparency on her first day in office and by day's end her administration had quietly delivered it by acknowledging nearly 12,...
Aug 25, 2021
Experts on WHO team say search for COVID origins has stalled
LONDON (AP) - The international scientists dispatched to China by the World Health Organization to find out where the coronavirus came from said Wednesday the search has stalled and warned that the wi...
Aug 25, 2021
Rocky man dead following single-vehicle rollover south of Whitecourt
A Rocky Mountain House man has died following a single-vehicle collision in Yellowhead County.Police say a commercial vehicle was travelling north on Hwy. 32 near Township Road 570, south of Whitecour...
Aug 25, 2021
O'Toole pledges more mental health funding for provinces
BRANTFORD, Ont. - Erin O'Toole says a Conservative government would work with the provinces to invest in mental health, transferring them enough funds for an additional one million Canadians to receiv...
Aug 25, 2021
Serena Williams pulls out of US Open, citing torn hamstring
Serena Williams added herself to the list of big-name withdrawals from the U.S. Open on Wednesday, pulling out of the year's last Grand Slam tournament because of a torn hamstring. Williams hasn't com...
Aug 25, 2021
Serena Williams pulls out of US Open, citing torn hamstring
Serena Williams added herself to the list of big-name withdrawals from the U.S. Open on Wednesday, pulling out of the year's last Grand Slam tournament because of a torn hamstring. Williams hasn't com...
Aug 25, 2021