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Freestyle skier Mikael Kingsbury wins top male athlete of the year honours
MONTREAL - Mikael Kingsbury is truly a dominant force. Kingsbury has nine wins in 11 World Cup starts the past two years. And the native of Deux Montagnes, Que., whose career average surpasses one vic...
Dec 27, 2019
Lacombe County finds success despite challenging year
The reeve of Lacombe County is describing 2019 as a successful, yet challenging year.Paula Law says despite that the challenges they faced, a lot of good work was done."We've been working on Intermuni...
Dec 27, 2019
Liberals face challenge to climate, economic policies early in 2020
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads into 2020 promising to chart a path to Canada's most ambitious greenhouse-gas emissions target yet: getting to a point within 30 years where Canada is addi...
Dec 27, 2019
‘Mame,’ ‘Hello, Dolly!’ composer Jerry Herman dies at 88
Tony Award-winning composer Jerry Herman, who wrote the cheerful, good-natured music and lyrics for such classic shows as "Mame," "Hello, Dolly!" and "La Cage aux Folles," died Thursday. He was 88. Hi...
Dec 27, 2019
'Itch like crazy:' Edmonton boy battles ultra-rare disease
EDMONTON - Armando Perez was only three months old when he got itchy. His mom, Alexandra Perez, says it wasn't normal scratching that could be fixed with a cute pair of baby mittens. It was so bad tha...
Dec 27, 2019
Trudeau on climate and ultra-rare disease; In The News for Dec. 27
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 27. What we are watching in Canada ... Pr...
Dec 27, 2019
'Right thing for a premier to do:' Saskatchewan's Moe reflects on Pride parade
REGINA - Before Scott Moe participated in his first Pride parade earlier this year, the Saskatchewan premier ran it past his young adult daughter. Moe says he takes advice in a big way from ...
Dec 27, 2019
Officials say 14 killed, 35 hurt in Kazakhstan plane crash
MOSCOW - A Kazakhstan plane with 100 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff early Friday, killing at least 14 people while at least 35 others survived with injuries, officials in Almaty said. The...
Dec 26, 2019
Grande Prairie introduces autonomous snow-clearing robot
The City of Grande Prairie has introduced a new pilot project, in the form of an automated snow-clearing robot.The robot, called a R-T-1000 from Left Hand Robotics, is now clearing the trail around th...
Dec 26, 2019
Man dies following fire at motel in Cardston
CARDSTON - A man is dead after a fire at a motel in the southern Alberta town of Cardston.Shortly after midnight on Christmas Day, RCMP and Cardston County Fire and Emergency Services (CCFES) received...
Dec 26, 2019