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City of Lacombe to manage regional wastewater line
The City of Lacombe has been selected to oversee management and operations of the new North Red Deer regional wastewater transmission system. Mayor Grant Creasey says council is pleased and that City ...
Jan 31, 2018
Anti-abortion group loses initial court bid over summer jobs program
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have been handed a win in court over a pro-choice requirement attached to the Canada Summer Jobs program, days before the deadline to apply for funding grants. A Federal ...
Jan 31, 2018
Toronto school board considering overhaul of streaming practice in Grades 9, 10
TORONTO - Canada’s largest school board is considering a drastic change to its practice of steering high schoolers toward either “academic” or “applied” courses in an eff...
Jan 31, 2018
Suicide Information and Education Services
On #BellLetsTalk day, a reminder that help is always close by when something has you feeling down. It’s never a bad time to talk about mental health. More from Dawne Adkins with Suicide Informat...
Jan 31, 2018
US pending home sales rose 0.5 per cent in December
WASHINGTON - The pace of Americans signing contracts to buy homes increased for a third straight month in December, raising an index of pending home sales by 0.5 per cent. The National Association of ...
Jan 31, 2018
The San Francisco House Filled with 33,000 Tabs of LSD
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Blotter Art Mark McCloud's San Francisco home is filled with tens of thousands of LSD tabs known as blotters. Blotters are sheets of paper that have either...
Jan 31, 2018
AP source: Fox gets Thursday night football for 5 years, $3B
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - Fox and the NFL have agreed to a five-year deal for Thursday night football games. Those games previously were televised by CBS and NBC, two of the league’s other network pa...
Jan 31, 2018
Canadian skier Erik Guay to miss the Winter Olympics due to back pain
World champion skier Erik Guay’s dream of an Olympic medal is over. The Montreal native, one of Canada’s top medal hopes in alpine skiing, announced Wednesday that he will miss the Winter ...
Jan 31, 2018
CAS to announce Russian Olympic doping verdicts on Thursday
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Russian athletes disqualified from the Olympics for life in the Sochi doping scandal will have their appeal verdicts announced on Thursday. The Court of Arbitration for Sport s...
Jan 31, 2018
Alleged bank robbers arrested after stopping at Tim Hortons in New Brunswick
RICHIBUCTO, N.B. - A pair of alleged New Brunswick bank robbers were arrested as they stopped at Tim Hortons after the heist. RCMP say the Royal Bank of Canada on Main Street in Richibucto was robbed ...
Jan 31, 2018