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MP Earl Dreeshen named to Agriculture Committee
OTTAWA- Earl Dreeshen, Member of Parliament for Red Deer - Mountain View has joined the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture. As a member of the committee, Dreeshen will continue be invo...
Feb 01, 2018

Premier Notley warns B.C. over plan to ban increased oil shipments
EDMONTON – Premier Rachel Notley says there will be consequences for British Columbia over the province’s latest attempt to hinder expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain oil pipelin...
Feb 01, 2018

Ponoka tests new technology at sewage lagoon
PONOKA- The Town of Ponoka is hosting a six-month pilot project at its Waste Water Treatment Facility to test and evaluate the potential benefits of new waste water filtration technology. The new tech...
Feb 01, 2018
Spanish rapper tried for tweets allegedly exalting terrorism
MADRID - Prosecutors in Spain are seeking an almost three-year prison sentence for a rap singer accused of exalting terrorism and slandering the Spanish monarchy and other Spanish institutions. Pablo ...
Feb 01, 2018
28 Russians have Olympic doping bans lifted
MOSCOW - Twenty-eight Russian athletes had their Olympic doping bans overturned Thursday, throwing the International Olympic Committee’s policy on the country into turmoil. The Court of Arbitrat...
Feb 01, 2018
The Latest: Russians want 15 more Olympic invitations
MOSCOW - The Latest on Russian doping (all times local): ___ 7:35 p.m. The Russian Olympic Committee says it wants to send 15 of the 28 athletes who won their appeals against doping bans to the Pyeong...
Feb 01, 2018

Development in Canadian Arctic lags behind other northern regions: think tank
An international affairs think tank says economic development in Canada’s Arctic is falling far behind that in northern regions in other parts of the world. “There’s just no sign of ...
Feb 01, 2018

CARTOON 02-01-2018
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 02-01-2018
Feb 01, 2018

Pipelines, not carbon taxes, bigger factor in energy competitivess: report
OTTAWA - Canada’s oil and gas producers are struggling to stay competitive with their U.S. counterparts because of the fight to expand pipeline capacity, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Ins...
Feb 01, 2018
2 sisters accused of fatally beating boy for taking cupcake
ATLANTA - Two sisters have been indicted in the fatal spanking and beating of a 3-year-old with a baseball bat for taking a cupcake from the kitchen. The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office...
Feb 01, 2018