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Province lifts ban on school seclusion rooms
Alberta's United Conservatives have repealed a ban on seclusion rooms in schools.The ban was brought in by the previous NDP government over concerns the rooms were traumatizing students with developme...
Aug 30, 2019 Education Minister Adriana LaGrange
Verdict next month for Lethbridge couple charged in son's death
LETHBRIDGE - In three weeks time, David and Collet Stephan will learn their fate.They are each charged with one count of failing to provide the necessaries of life after their 19-month-old son Ezekiel...
Aug 30, 2019
Woman convicted in Stefanie Rengel killing set to appear before parole board
KITCHENER, Ont. - A young woman who pressured her boyfriend into killing his teenage ex more than a decade ago is set to appear before the Parole Board of Canada today. Melissa Todorovic last appeared...
Aug 30, 2019
Sacramento Kings guard Cory Joseph joins Canada's World Cup team in China
DONGGUAN, China - Cory Joseph has joined Canada's men's basketball team ahead of the FIBA World Cup. The 28-year-old from Pickering, Ont., played in the team's two exhibition games against N...
Aug 30, 2019
Search continues for driver who nearly hit officers, child in Riverside Meadows
There was a heavy police presence in the Riverside Meadows neighbourhood Thursday as Red Deer Mounties searched for a driver who nearly hit officers and a child while fleeing from being arrested.At ap...
Aug 30, 2019
'We will rise from those ashes:' Ranch still rebuilding two years after wildfire
CALGARY - Melody Garner-Skiba and her family have had some tough conversations since a wildfire raged into Waterton Lakes National Park in southeastern Alberta two years ago, spread into nearby g...
Aug 30, 2019
Scars of 2017 wildfire still evident in Waterton park as rebuild continues
WATERTON, Alta. - Deb Watson returned to her family's trail-riding business after the Waterton wildfire to find little more than a pop machine melted into a bubbly puddle with coins ins...
Aug 30, 2019
In the news today, Aug. 30
Five stories in the news for Friday, Aug. 30 --- ONTARIO ANTI-CARBON TAX GAS STICKERS COME INTO EFFECT TODAY A new law requiring Ontario gas stations to start posting anti-c...
Aug 30, 2019
Benjamin Tomlin, Canadian sentenced to 10 years in Cuban prison, was set up: lawyer
MONTREAL - A Canadian man sentenced to 10 years in a Cuban prison says he is innocent, and his lawyer says his client was likely set up following a night of partying...
Aug 30, 2019
Cities to parties: Fill housing gaps for seniors, Indigenous people
OTTAWA - Canada's cities want all the federal parties to promise to pour billions more into the national government's decade-long housing strategy to make sure that seniors, urban Indigenous people an...
Aug 30, 2019