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SNC-Lavalin's court loss shifts spotlight to Trudeau's new attorney general
OTTAWA - The spotlight in the SNC-Lavalin affair has shifted to rookie Justice Minister David Lametti now that a court has rejected the company’s bid to force the public prosecutor to pursue an ...
Mar 08, 2019
Did Einstein Really Fail Math?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Most people are at least vaguely familiar with the work of Albert Einstein. We might not have a solid grasp on what exactly E = mc means or why it's import...
Mar 08, 2019
Train service planned for Coachella Valley music festivals
INDIO, Calif. - Transportation officials are working on using Amtrak train service to help alleviate notorious traffic heading to and from the annual Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals in the So...
Mar 08, 2019

Victim's sons tell court that killing of ailing mother was no act of compassion
MONTREAL - Following emotional testimony from the victim’s family members, the Crown and the defence offered vastly different sentencing recommendations Friday for a Montreal man convicted of su...
Mar 08, 2019

Review: Captain Marvel soars into Marvel Universe
Captain Marvel reports for duty in the first female-led flick in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Black Widow might be a little choked that she didn’t get the call after all she’s been throu...
Mar 08, 2019
Thailand pulls out of 2020 Olympic weightlifting over doping
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Thailand has volunteered to ban itself from Tokyo Olympic Games weightlifting next year because of doping, another blow to a sport whose place on the Olympic program is precarious....
Mar 08, 2019

Red Deer unemployment rate up in February
RED DEER- The unemployment rate in the Red Deer region rose slightly last month to 4.7 per cent from 4.4 per cent in January. Despite the rise, our area still has the lowest unemployment rate in the p...
Mar 08, 2019

Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify on Wikileaks
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who served years in prison for leaking one of the largest troves of classified documents in U.S. history, has been sent to jail for ...
Mar 08, 2019
Wetaskiwin RCMP are looking for wanted woman
WETASKIWIN- RCMP are looking to locate a woman from Wetaskiwin area. Shereen Miller, 26, is wanted for numerous outstanding warrants out of Wetaskiwin RCMP detachment including: Identity fraud Resist/...
Mar 08, 2019

UCP promises no change to personal income tax rates
EDMONTON – Alberta Opposition leader Jason Kenney says he won’t be making any changes to personal income tax rates if he wins the spring election. Kenney says that with Alberta running mul...
Mar 08, 2019