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City of Lacombe boosts recreational fishing with Alberta Conservation Association
LACOMBE- The City of Lacombe has announced a $3000 per year, five-year sponsorship with the Alberta Conservation Association (ACA) to support fish stocking at the Len Thompson Fish Pond Park.The munic...
Feb 13, 2020 Lacombe Fish and Game Association
President Greg Lunn, Councillor Cora Hoekstra, Mayor Grant Creasey, Alberta
Conservation Association Vice President Ken Kranrod and
Thompson-Pallister Bait Company President Brad Pallister at the cheque
presentation ceremony at City Hall.
Rail services continue to feel brunt of anti-pipeline protests across country
Via Rail has extended train cancellations on major routes in Ontario and Quebec as protests against a pipeline in northern B.C. stretched into a sixth-day on Wednesday. Passenger and freight rail...
Feb 13, 2020
Snowboarder Darcy Sharpe brings winner's confidence to Calgary World Cup
CALGARY - Darcy Sharpe says he goes to sleep feeling happy these days. The snowboarder from Comox, B.C., won his first X Games gold medal last month in Aspen, Colo. Sharpe vaulted from last ...
Feb 13, 2020
Ukrainian leader seeks more independence, fires top aide
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's president dismissed his chief of staff on Tuesday in a sign of intensifying rivalries in his entourage and a possible move to distance himself from a powerful billionaire. Pr...
Feb 13, 2020
Einarson elated to don Manitoba colours at Canadian curling championship
Kerri Einarson is enjoying the prospect of a direct entry into the Canadian women's curling championship. Winning the Manitoba women's curling crown means avoiding Friday's sudden-...
Feb 13, 2020
Ladysmith Black Mambazo founder Joseph Shabalala dies at 78
JOHANNESBURG - The founder of the South African multi-Grammy-Award-winning music group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala, has died at age 78, the group and the government announced Tuesday. Sh...
Feb 13, 2020
Second plane carrying evacuees from Wuhan arrives at CFB Trenton in Ontario
OTTAWA - A second Canadian plane carrying evacuees from the quarantined region of Hubei, China, has landed at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in southern Ontario. Foreign Affairs Minister Franc...
Feb 13, 2020
Sudanese gov't reaches settlement deal with USS Cole victims
CAIRO - Sudan's transitional government said Thursday it has reached a settlement with families of the victims of the 2000 attack on USS Cole in Yemen, in a bid to have the African country taken off t...
Feb 13, 2020
Cheer up Montreal, the cheerleaders are back; In The News for Feb. 11
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. 11 ... What...
Feb 13, 2020
Number of new coronavirus cases spike in China; In The News for Feb. 13
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. 13 ... What...
Feb 13, 2020