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Biden signs landmark gun measure, says 'lives will be saved'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, inclu...
Jun 25, 2022
Lacombe-Ponoka MLA Ron Orr endorses UCP leadership candidate
A central Alberta MLA is offering his endorsement to Travis Toews's campaign for leadership of the United Conservative Party.Ron Orr, MLA for Lacombe-Ponoka, and Minister of Culture and Status of Wome...
Jun 25, 2022
Collicutt Centre wave pool temporarily closed
The wave pool and water slides at the Collicutt Centre are temporarily closed due to an unexpected electrical issue. The closure is expected to last up to one week, and the public will be notified upo...
Jun 25, 2022
Indigenous conservation Canada's way of the future, Guilbeault says
Tanya Ball began her career as a social worker for the Kaska Dene First Nation. Now she runs a land guardian program, working to monitor and protect a vast stretch of the band's northern British Colum...
Jun 25, 2022
Biden signs landmark gun measure, says 'lives will be saved'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, inclu...
Jun 25, 2022
Uneven economic recovery does not bring all Canadian women with it: experts
OTTAWA - After more than two years of economic turbulence through the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada's workforce participation overall appears quite rosy for women. The share of women aged 25 to 54 years o...
Jun 25, 2022
Rwanda to Germany: Canada to elevate small Commonwealth nations' concerns at the G7
KIGALI, Rwanda - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says Canada will be bringing the concerns of smaller Commonwealth nations to the G7 leaders in Germany Sunday, particularly the growing threat of ...
Jun 25, 2022
RCMP reform would prevent political interference, criminologists say
OTTAWA - An Ottawa criminologist says questions about whether political pressure was placed on the RCMP commissioner in the Nova Scotia shooting investigation illustrate why Brenda Lucki should not re...
Jun 25, 2022
Experts caution against becoming 'air-conditioned society' as heat waves get hotter
Hundreds of people who perished during the historic heat wave in British Columbia last summer died in homes ill-suited for temperatures that spiked into the high 30s and beyond for days,a report by B....
Jun 25, 2022
Last Nevada county approves primary results after hand count
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Counties across Nevada on Friday certified the last outstanding results of the state's June 14 primary election after critics questioned the tallies by recounting their own experienc...
Jun 25, 2022