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Jacobs announces that Kennedy and Wozniak will play as substitutes with Fry out
Team Brad Jacobs will turn to a couple of curling veterans to fill the vacancy created by Ryan Fry’s decision to take an indefinite leave after his disqualification from the Red Deer Curling Cla...
Nov 26, 2018
Top two B.C. legislature officials deny wrongdoing, want to go back to work
VANCOUVER - The two top officials in British Columbia’s legislature say they’re humiliated after being placed on administrative leave and don’t know what they’ve done to provok...
Nov 26, 2018
Quebec environmentalists launch climate change lawsuit against Ottawa
MONTREAL - A group of young Quebecers is going to court claiming their fundamental rights have been violated as a result of federal government inaction on climate change. The group Environnement Jeune...
Nov 26, 2018
Teen killed in crash north of Morningside
Ponoka RCMP are looking into the cause of a crash north of Morningside that claimed the life of a 17-year-old male Sunday night. Around 9:11 p.m., Mounties were dispatched to a single vehicle rollover...
Nov 26, 2018
Quebec teen's hospital death from morphine 'highly preventable,' coroner finds
MONTREAL - When Jimmy Lee Durocher, a 17-year-old in otherwise perfect health, went into the operating room Jan. 14 at a hospital in St-Charles-Borromee, Que., his family expected it would be a routin...
Nov 26, 2018
No injuries after cooking fire in West Lake
Officials with Red Deer Emergency Services (RDES) are reminding residents not to leave cooking unattended after a house fire in West Lake Sunday night. RDES Fire Safety Codes Officer Andrew Towers say...
Nov 26, 2018
Housing watchdog at risk as Liberals worry about too much bureaucracy
OTTAWA - Worried that they’d create too much new bureaucracy by hiring a new watchdog and setting up an adjudication system to enforce a right to housing they’ve promised, the federal Libe...
Nov 26, 2018
Rustlers losing skid reaches three
After a red hot six-game win streak start to their inaugural season, the Red Deer Rustlers have stumbled into a three-game losing skid. The Rustlers suffered a pair of losses in North Central Hockey L...
Nov 26, 2018
B.C. chief tells pipeline hearings his people are responsible for their land
VICTORIA - Protection of salmon, animals and the land in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia is an eternal responsibility of First Nations and the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline poses risk...
Nov 26, 2018
Alberta declares beer trade fight with Ontario over access to liquor stores
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is opening a new front in its beer war with other provinces by targeting Ontario for what it says are its unfair trade barriers to Alberta-made suds and other alcohol...
Nov 26, 2018