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Evictees from SKorea's 1st Olympics recall harsh clearings
BUCHEON, Korea, Republic Of - When South Korea previously held the Olympics in 1988, Kim Paolo and some 150 other poor urban residents spent months that year hiding in huge graves of their own making....
Mar 09, 2018
Former Halifax child prodigy grows up to design self-folding origami robots
HALIFAX - A Halifax-born former child prodigy has proven he can do just about anything with a piece of paper. Erik Demaine, a 37-year-old MIT computer science professor, thinks the technology behind h...
Mar 09, 2018
Nova Scotia judge convicts former Knowledge House CEO, lawyer of fraud
HALIFAX - Two key architects behind a sophisticated multi-million-dollar stock market scheme have been found guilty of manipulating the share price of Knowledge House Inc., nearly 17 years after the H...
Mar 09, 2018
Recreation archives available thanks to grant
RED DEER- The collection of historical records for sports and cultural activities in Red Deer has been significantly updated and is available to the public thanks to a funding grant. The Archives Soci...
Mar 09, 2018
Trump says he'll meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un
WASHINGTON - After months of trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation, President Donald Trump agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un by the end of May to negotiate an end to Py...
Mar 09, 2018
Trump teases big news; it arrives in the dark, on driveway
WASHINGTON - The first inkling that something big was afoot on North Korea came from President Donald Trump himself: He popped his head into the White House briefing room late Thursday afternoon to te...
Mar 09, 2018
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for February, by province
OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in February. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (revised numbers from the previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland...
Mar 09, 2018
Lacombe County hosts second annual "Spring Tune Up" event
LACOMBE- After a successful inaugural health and safety fair in 2017, Lacombe County has announced its second annual “Spring Tune Up” event. Anyone interested in their health and in farm s...
Mar 09, 2018
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for February, by Canadian city
OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in February. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, ...
Mar 09, 2018
National employment numbers for February from Statistics Canada, at a glance
OTTAWA - A quick look at February employment (revised numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 5.8 per cent (5.9) Employment rate: 61.7 per cent (61.7) Labour force participati...
Mar 09, 2018