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RDC’s School of Education touts new online learning opportunities
RED DEER- Red Deer College continues to expand its programming, two new instructor certificates will be launched in the School of Education over the next six months, providing learners with career adv...
Nov 08, 2018

Alberta auditor: Lax oversight of high-speed wireless contracts could be costly
EDMONTON – Alberta’s auditor general says the government has been failing to make sure taxpayers get value for money spent on contracts to run the province’s $1-billion SuperNet. The...
Nov 08, 2018

McGill University to hold referendum on changing team nickname
Ross Montour says the time is right for McGill University to change its team nickname. Montour, a chief on the Mohawk Council of Kahnawa:ke, says that his First Nations community south of Montreal wou...
Nov 08, 2018

Bombardier cutting 5,000 jobs, selling Q400 and flight training programs
MONTREAL - Bombardier Inc. announced Thursday it will shed 5,000 jobs company-wide and sell off two units as part of chief executive Alain Bellemare’s five-year plan to rein in costs, focus on r...
Nov 08, 2018

Poland signs deal for long-term deliveries of US gas
WARSAW, Poland - Poland’s main gas company signed a long-term contract Thursday to receive deliveries of liquefied natural gas from the United States as part of a larger effort to reduce its ene...
Nov 08, 2018

Jet buffeted by winds before overshooting Halifax runway: investigator
HALIFAX - The Boeing 747 cargo jet that overshot a Halifax runway this week had touched down in rainy conditions while being buffeted by a crosswind with a potential tailwind, the Transportation Safet...
Nov 08, 2018

CARTOON 11-08-2018
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 11-08-2018
Nov 08, 2018

Only equal on the battlefield: Efforts underway to honour Indigenous veterans
Francis Pegahmagabow went to a recruitment office almost immediately after war was declared in 1914. The Ojibwa sniper from Wasauksing First Nation of Parry Island would serve with the 1st Infantry Ba...
Nov 08, 2018

In the news today, Nov. 8
Five stories in the news for Thursday, Nov. 8 --- EFFORTS UNDERWAY TO HONOUR INDIGENOUS VETERANS Across the country today, people are gathering for the 25th National Aboriginal Veterans Day. It was st...
Nov 08, 2018
Apology for Canada's past anti-Semitism was personal for some cabinet ministers
OTTAWA - The federal government’s apology for one of Canada’s most shameful anti-Semitic episodes was personal for some of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet ministers. For Inte...
Nov 08, 2018