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Climate change threatens extinction for most birds, especially in Canada: report
Climate change threatens extinction for two-thirds of bird species across North America, including almost all of those filling the forests and tundra of northern Canada, says an extensive report....
Oct 10, 2019 (File photo/The Canadian Press)
Calgary police charge two men after multiple swatting calls
CALGARY- Police have charged two men, aged 25 and 31, in relation to multiple swatting calls.Swatting is the reporting of false emergencies to get police, particularly SWAT teams, to respond to specif...
Oct 10, 2019
Toronto Argonauts name Mike (Pinball) Clemons as their new general manager
TORONTO - He has been a player, head coach and front-office executive. Michael (Pinball) Clemons can now add the title of general manager to his Toronto Argonauts resume. Clemons was named A...
Oct 10, 2019
Iran women freely at FIFA soccer match, 1st time in decades
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian women have just watched a FIFA soccer match kickoff after being freely allowed into a stadium for the first time in decades. Iran faces Cambodia in the 2022 World Cup qualifier ...
Oct 10, 2019
Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime loses to Tsitsipas in second round
SHANGHAI - Canadian teenager Felix Auger-Aliassime has fallen short in his bid to upset Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas for the third time this year. The 19-year-old from Montreal lost 7-6(3), 7...
Oct 10, 2019
Olds College partners with Zone Startups Calgary
OLDS- The College and Zone Startups Calgary have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate and support early stage agriculture technology companies with technical and commercial validation t...
Oct 10, 2019
Retiree checks to rise modestly amid push to expand benefits
WASHINGTON - Social Security says millions of retirees will get a modest 1.6% cost-of-living increase in 2020 - and that comes to about $24 more a month more the average retired worker. That news coul...
Oct 10, 2019
Suspect in rapper Mac Miller's drug death to appear in court
LOS ANGELES - A man charged with selling rapper Mac Miller the drugs that killed him last year is set to appear in federal court in Los Angeles. Prosecutors allege 28-year-old Cameron Pettit of West H...
Oct 10, 2019
Ponoka RCMP arrest three in identity and credit card fraud
PONOKA- On October 8, RCMP responded to a local hotel for a complaint of an attempted credit card fraud. A man and a woman were attempting to use false identification and invalid credit card informati...
Oct 10, 2019
2 Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after 2018 scandal
STOCKHOLM - Two Nobel Prizes in literature - one for 2019 and one for last year - will be announced Thursday after the 2018 literature award was postponed following sex abuse allegations that had rock...
Oct 10, 2019