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PM announces financial support for emergency women's shelters
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced more financial support aimed at helping the most vulnerable Canadians survive the COVID-19 pandemic.The contribution is worth $200 million dollars to provid...
Apr 4, 2020 (The Canadian Press)
Knifeman in southern France kills 2 in attack on passersby
PARIS - A man wielding a knife attacked residents of a French town while they ventured out to shop amid a coronavirus lockdown Saturday, killing two people and wounding eight others, authorities said....
Apr 4, 2020
Town of Blackfalds announces changes to BOLT and at transfer station
The Town of Blackfalds issued an update Friday with respect to changes being made to BOLT Transit services, hours at the local transfer station, and related to staffing.For starters, due to low riders...
Apr 4, 2020 (Town of Blackfalds)
Statement from Deputy Commissioner Curtis Zablocki, Commanding Officer of the Alberta RCMP
The global COVID-19 pandemic has changed our day-to-day lives and challenged society in ways we haven't experience in decades. What hasn't changed is the fact Albertans can count on the RCMP every day...
Apr 4, 2020 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Red Deer Food Bank pleased to hear of $100 million federal commitment
Food banks and other organizations across Canada which assist those experiencing food insecurity will share up to $100 million, a pot of money announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday.In R...
Apr 4, 2020 (File photo)
'Always new expenses:' Lawsuits filed as anniversary of Broncos bus crash nears
It's been almost two years since the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan and with the solemn anniversary comes a closing legal window that has seen several lawsuits filed in court.Sixtee...
Apr 4, 2020 (The Canadian Press)
The inexact science involved in predicting the likely path of COVID-19
socsocTORONTO - Data experts are cautioning already on-edge Canadians against taking Ontario's dire predictions about COVID-19 deaths literally, even as the revelation of stark data coincided with mor...
Apr 4, 2020
Contagious singing as Corona Community Chorus unites voices
NEW YORK - Casper ter Kuile lights a candle in front of his computer screen. And then the music begins. All around the world, linked by video, more than 100 people sing "Come, Come Whoever You Are," l...
Apr 4, 2020
Alberta truckers deserving of support during pandemic: AMTA president
The president of the Alberta Motor Transport Association (AMTA) says their entire team is doing everything possible to support the industry, and ensure essential needs keep moving during the COVID-19 ...
Apr 4, 2020 (dreamstime.com)
Pandemic has shunted aside an array of Liberal initiatives, at least for now
OTTAWA - As a new year dawned, the government's throne-speech commitments unfurled just weeks earlier were grabbing headlines and galvanizing the attention of federal policy-makers. Then came the...
Apr 4, 2020