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TORONTO - Though he officially takes up the premier’s mantle on Friday, Doug Ford has already set the wheels in motion for several of his plans for Ontario - and one expert predicts the Progress...

CALGARY - Pro-pipeline activists who hit the streets in increasing numbers this year to try to drown out anti-pipeline picketers plan to continue to confront their adversaries, even in the face of pre...

LAVAL, Que. - One-time Quebec construction mogul Tony Accurso should receive a five-year prison term and be ordered to pay $1.6 million, the Crown prosecutor said Thursday. Accurso’s lawyer, how...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea will meet “soon” amid a surprising diplomatic thaw between the rival nations, Ethiopia’s top diplomat said Thursday, as an...

HINTON- Firefighters are trying to contain an out-of-control wildfire east of Hinton that grew to estimated 700 hectares Wednesday night. Provincial officials say the blaze was about 15 kilometres fro...

TOKYO - A Japanese mayor who suffered a stroke at a sumo event and was given first aid by a female nurse who entered the male-only ring has said the sport’s ancient ban on women is outdated. Ryo...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The Olympic Council of Asia says North and South Korea will field combined teams in three sports - canoeing, rowing and women’s basketball - at the Asian Games in the latest...

INNISFAIL- A family in central Alberta is grieving after their pet cat Mikey was euthanized by mistake. Mike Piesse says Mikey escaped from their home in Innisfail on June 8. The unlicensed pet was ca...

Red Deer’s Ashton Henfrey has been selected as our rdnewsNOW “Dairy Queen Athlete of the Month” for May. Henfrey trains with the Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics club in Red...

CAMROSE / PROVOST- Three people are dead following separate crashes yesterday, including one involving six vehicles. Two men died when the van they were in collided with a car at a highway intersectio...