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Lethbridge the first in Alberta to offer “green burials”
LETHBRIDGE- The area might not look too green right now, but the City of Lethbridge hopes a section of the Royal View Memorial Cemetery will offer a more eco-friendly method of burial.As the city's Ce...
Feb 14, 2020 The area where green burials will be offered in Royal View Memorial Cemetery. (Lethbridge News Now)
Friends, targets salute Christie Blatchford's 'insightful,' 'unrelenting' career
TORONTO - Veteran court reporter, celebrated author and biting newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford, whose vivid prose championed cops, kids and soldiers while challenging corruption and hashtag so...
Feb 14, 2020
New Zealand teams find British hiker's body in national park
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Searchers found the body of British hiker Stephanie Simpson on Friday almost a week after she went hiking in a New Zealand national park. Her body was found in the Pyke Creek...
Feb 14, 2020
Canadian officials helping in Japan after 12 Canadians contract virus on ship
MUNICH - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says Canadian health workers are assisting in Japan after 12 Canadians contracted the novel coronavirus while on a cruise ship. ...
Feb 14, 2020
Town of Ponoka selling airport to Ponoka Flying Club
PONOKA- Town council in Ponoka has pproved a motion authorizing the sale of the Ponoka Industrial Airport to the Ponoka Flying Club for $385,000. The club will also become the operating authority for ...
Feb 14, 2020
Virus infects more than 1,700 health workers in China, 6 die
BEIJING - More than 1,700 Chinese medical workers have been infected by the new virus that has killed nearly 1,400 people and spread to other parts of Asia and as far as the U.S. and Europe, a senior ...
Feb 14, 2020
2020 Democrats step up attacks to blunt Bloomberg's rise
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidates hoping to revive their flagging campaigns increasingly took aim at Mike Bloomberg, blasting their billionaire rival for trying to buy his way into the W...
Feb 14, 2020
Firefighters calendar too hot to handle and anti-pipeline protests; In The News for Feb. 14
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 14 ... What...
Feb 14, 2020
Pipeline protests expected today, governments to meet with First Nations
VICTORIA - Anti-pipeline protests that have severed vital freight and passenger rail links across Canada could heat up today, with the added threat of activists planning to shut down governm...
Feb 14, 2020
Global economic security critical, Trudeau to tell security conference
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will address the Munich Security Conference today and urge global leaders to accept that a changing world requires more effort to bring economic prosperity for a...
Feb 14, 2020