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Tickets sales delayed for 2021 Festival of Trees
Tickets for the 2021 Festival of Trees in Red Deer were supposed to go on sale Oct. 4, but that target has been moved back.Organizers say tickets will now be up for purchase as of Oct. 19, with everyt...
Oct 04, 2021
Reports: Rochester mayor to resign as part of plea deal
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren agreed to resign before her term ends as part of a deal to settle charges she violated campaign finance rules during her 2017 reelection campaign, ...
Oct 04, 2021
Lions receiver Whitehead expected to miss two-to-four weeks following hand surgery
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Lions announced Monday receiver Lucky Whitehead will require surgery for a broken hand and is expected to be out two-to-four weeks. The CFL club said Whitehead was injured in its ...
Oct 04, 2021
Shots fired on Amtrak train in Arizona; 1 in custody
One person is in custody after someone opened fire Monday aboard an Amtrak train in Tucson, Arizona, causing passengers to flee, police said. The shooting happened just after 8 a.m. on a train parked ...
Oct 04, 2021
Little room for error when towing banners by plane, ex-pilot says after Quebec crash
MONTREAL - An ex-professional pilot says that while it's too soon to say what caused a plane pulling a marriage proposal banner to crash near Old Montreal over the weekend, there's little room for err...
Oct 04, 2021
Italy's center-left claim mayoral wins; populists slump
ROME (AP) - Italy's center-left forces, spearheaded by the Democrats, were sweeping to victory Monday in Milan and other big city mayoral races while clinching a runoff berth in Rome, where the populi...
Oct 04, 2021
NHLers reflect on banner summer for Canadian women: 'It's fantastic what they did'
Pierre-Luc Dubois was in the middle of his workout. The televisions perched throughout the gym usually show an endless loop of sports highlights from the previous night's action. On this August mornin...
Oct 04, 2021
Quebec premier says last week's debates on racism lacked compassion for First Nations
Quebec Premier Franois Legault is accepting responsibility for the lack of compassion and solidarity toward Indigenous Peoples last week involving himself and the opposition. Legault said today on Fac...
Oct 04, 2021
No need for federal involvement in Alberta coal mine review, First Nation says
An Alberta First Nation says it continues to doubt the need for a federal environmental review of a proposed thermal coal mine expansion in the province. And the Ermineskin band from central Alberta s...
Oct 04, 2021
Canada sharing data with countries who don't accept mixed-dose travellers
OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada says it's working with other governments still dubious about allowing Canadians with mixed vaccines to travel across their borders without quarantining. Sev...
Oct 04, 2021