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Maskwacis RCMP investigate shooting
A 26-year-old man is in hospital after being shot late Tuesday afternoon at Maskwacis. RCMP responded to a report of gunshots at about 5 p.m. at the Samson First Nation. Witnesses had taken the victim...
Jul 03, 2019
Missing Calgary man's body recovered from Clearwater River
RCMP say the body of a missing Calgary man believed to have drowned in the Clearwater River near Rocky Mountain House has been located. The body of the 34-year-old Calgary mas was found just before 6 ...
Jul 03, 2019
Special prosecutor to help with probe of UCP leadership vote
The Alberta government says a special out-of-province prosecutor will assist in a criminal fraud investigation into the United Conservative Party leadership race won by Jason Kenney before he became p...
Jul 03, 2019 (Lethbridge News Now)
System failed slain Quebec girl, youth protection internal probe finds
MONTREAL - An internal probe has found no one person or service can shoulder the blame for lapses in the case of a slain seven-year-old Quebec girl who'd been followed by youth protection. It found th...
Jul 03, 2019
Nova Gas Transmission adding more than just a pipeline to Clearwater County
The Edson Mainline Expansion Project, which will become part of the existing 24,000 kilometre Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. system, is currently under regulatory review with the National Energy Board.Nov...
Jul 03, 2019
Algonquin Nation guaranteed space in Indigenous centre as deal ends hunger strike
OTTAWA - The Algonquin Nation will be guaranteed a space in a major Indigenous centre in Ottawa after an agreement with the federal government ended a grand chief's hunger strike. Verna Polson of the ...
Jul 03, 2019
Average vet faces 32-week wait for benefits decision, double government target
OTTAWA - The long delays many veterans face when applying to the government for assistance for service-related injuries has reached a new milestone. Former service members have long been promised that...
Jul 03, 2019
Nutrien says 34 workers trapped underground after service shaft malfunction
SASKATOON - Nutrien Ltd. says 34 maintenance workers have been trapped in its Cory potash mine in Saskatchewan since Tuesday afternoon. Company spokesman Will Tigley says the service sh...
Jul 03, 2019
Newfoundland travellers contract mysterious disease traced to cave trip in Cuba
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A woman is warning travellers to thoroughly research any adventurous excursions abroad after she and several other Newfoundlanders became ill from a mysterious disease traced b...
Jul 03, 2019
Ottawa Senators add experience with signings of Ron Hainsey, Tyler Ennis
OTTAWA - Pierre Dorion added the veteran leadership he was looking for on the opening day of free agency. The Ottawa Senators general manager signed veteran defenceman Ron Hainsey to a one-year d...
Jul 03, 2019