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Week two underway at Canada Winter Games
The second week of competition got underway Sunday at the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer. At the Pidherney Curling Centre, both Alberta teams were in action in the opening draw a facing Quebec. ...
Feb 25, 2019

More money needed to deal with civil service pay problems, unions say
OTTAWA - The upcoming federal budget must include more money to stabilize the disastrous Phoenix pay system for government employees, and to launch its replacement, the country’s biggest civil s...
Feb 25, 2019
Canada's Milos Raonic loses first-round match to unseeded opponent in Dubai
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Canada’s Milos Raonic lost 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 to Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff in a first-round upset at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Monday. The sev...
Feb 25, 2019
Toronto Blue Jays' spring training home also becoming known for craft beer
DUNEDIN, Fla. - Blue Jays baseball has become synonymous with Dunedin in the decades since the team set up its spring training camp there in 1977. But there’s another B word that’s entrenc...
Feb 25, 2019

RDC Athletics recap: Feb. 21 - 24
RED DEER- On Sunday, the RDC Mixed Curling team earned bronze at the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) Championships in Olds. The Volleyball Kings captured fifth spot at the ACAC Men's Volle...
Feb 25, 2019
2 arrested in robbery of California news crew
OAKLAND, Calif. - Two men have been arrested in the shooting of the security guard for a news crew that was robbed while covering the Oakland teachers’ strike, authorities said Monday. KPIX said...
Feb 25, 2019
Trump goes after Spike Lee after Oscars speech
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is going after director Spike Lee, who used his Oscar acceptance speech to urge mobilization for the 2020 election. Trump tweeted Monday that Lee did a “racis...
Feb 25, 2019

Weather Network's Spring 2019 forecast
OAKVILLE- Early March will look and feel like mid-winter in many areas across Canada. However, according to The Weather Network’s Spring Forecast, for March, April and May, most Canadians will n...
Feb 25, 2019

UCP accuses Premier Notley of breaking rules with event at Lethbridge hospital
LETHBRIDGE- A spokeswoman for Premier Rachel Notley appeared to acknowledge the poor optics of a weekend appearance Notley made at a hospital, which the Opposition says broke rules prohibiting politic...
Feb 25, 2019

The big Oscar win by 'Green Book' leaves many frustrated
LOS ANGELES - The decision to hand the best film Oscar to “Green Book” continued to be debated Monday, long after the last Champagne glass had finally been emptied. Rarely in Oscar history...
Feb 25, 2019