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Statement from Deputy Commissioner Curtis Zablocki, Commanding Officer of the Alberta RCMP
The global COVID-19 pandemic has changed our day-to-day lives and challenged society in ways we haven't experience in decades. What hasn't changed is the fact Albertans can count on the RCMP every day...
Apr 04, 2020 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Red Deer Food Bank pleased to hear of $100 million federal commitment
Food banks and other organizations across Canada which assist those experiencing food insecurity will share up to $100 million, a pot of money announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday.In R...
Apr 04, 2020 (File photo)
'Always new expenses:' Lawsuits filed as anniversary of Broncos bus crash nears
It's been almost two years since the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan and with the solemn anniversary comes a closing legal window that has seen several lawsuits filed in court.Sixtee...
Apr 04, 2020 (The Canadian Press)
The inexact science involved in predicting the likely path of COVID-19
socsocTORONTO - Data experts are cautioning already on-edge Canadians against taking Ontario's dire predictions about COVID-19 deaths literally, even as the revelation of stark data coincided with mor...
Apr 04, 2020
Contagious singing as Corona Community Chorus unites voices
NEW YORK - Casper ter Kuile lights a candle in front of his computer screen. And then the music begins. All around the world, linked by video, more than 100 people sing "Come, Come Whoever You Are," l...
Apr 04, 2020
Alberta truckers deserving of support during pandemic: AMTA president
The president of the Alberta Motor Transport Association (AMTA) says their entire team is doing everything possible to support the industry, and ensure essential needs keep moving during the COVID-19 ...
Apr 04, 2020 (dreamstime.com)
Pandemic has shunted aside an array of Liberal initiatives, at least for now
OTTAWA - As a new year dawned, the government's throne-speech commitments unfurled just weeks earlier were grabbing headlines and galvanizing the attention of federal policy-makers. Then came the...
Apr 04, 2020
Oil industry pleads for help but feds still mum on when that will come
OTTAWA - Canada's oil producers are growing frustrated that they have yet to see a promised federal aid package to help bail out their industry from an unprecedented drop in demand. Canadian Asso...
Apr 04, 2020
B.C. temporarily lifts data residency requirement in response to COVID-19
VANCOUVER - British Columbia has temporarily modified its access to information and privacy act in response to COVID-19, lifting a requirement that personal data must be stored in ...
Apr 04, 2020
PM expected to unveil more help for most vulnerable to weather pandemic
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce today more financial support aimed at helping the most vulnerable Canadians survive the COVID-19 pandemic. The new announcement follows F...
Apr 04, 2020