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Trump's NAFTA threats spur municipality's trade delegation to Colombia
TORONTO - Canadian municipalities must take the initiative to seek out international business and economic opportunities, especially given U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to tear up the No...
Aug 31, 2017
East Coast iceberg watch tops 1,000: 'People really love to see them'
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - It was the year of the celebrity iceberg, the phallic iceberg and the lying-dog iceberg. More than a thousand icebergs drifted into East Coast shipping lanes this year, with m...
Aug 31, 2017
Public mourns Princess Diana on 20th anniversary of death
LONDON - Kathy Martin joined the stream of visitors laying tributes to Princess Diana outside the gates of Kensington Palace on Thursday, just as she did 20 years ago. The 55-year-old Diana devotee vi...
Aug 31, 2017
Impact midfielder Piatti named MLS player of the month for August
NEW YORK - Montreal Impact midfielder Ignacio Piatti has been named Major League Soccer’s player of the month for August. Piatti scored seven goals, including two game-winning goals, and added a...
Aug 31, 2017
Smiles all around as kids head back to school
A new school year is finally upon us. The return to classes is made even more exciting this year by the debut of some brand new schools. In Red Deer, Don Campbell Elementary in Inglewood opened its do...
Aug 31, 2017
Motorcyclist dies after crashing into city transit bus
A motorcyclist is dead after the bike he was riding crashed into the back of a Red Deer city transit bus Wednesday night. The crash happened at about 11 p.m. on 67 Street at the 59 Avenue intersection...
Aug 31, 2017
A quarter of London Film Festival lineup directed by women
LONDON - The London Film Festival says a quarter of the feature films in this year’s schedule were directed by women. There are 61 female filmmakers in the lineup of 242 films announced Thursday...
Aug 31, 2017
Trudeau promises unionized workers a NAFTA deal they can be proud of
MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau assured unionized Canadian workers on Thursday they’ll be getting a NAFTA deal they can be proud of. Trudeau put a positive spin on the negotiations as h...
Aug 31, 2017
Greyhound bus route on B.C.'s Highway of Tears one of five that could be axed
VANCOUVER - Greyhound Canada has applied to regulators in British Columbia to drop five routes, four of them in northern B.C., as the company deals with plunging ridership. Greyhound calls the decisio...
Aug 31, 2017
B.C. schools scrambling to hire teachers to meet new class-size standards
VANCOUVER - School districts in British Columbia are scrambling to hire thousands of teachers ahead of the new school year to satisfy a court decision that reinstates standards on class size. The Supr...
Aug 31, 2017