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Red Deer & District Community Foundation accepting applications for Smart & Caring Communities Grants
We are now accepting applications for our Smart & Caring Communities Grants. Applications are open until October 4, 2021 at 4:30 pm.HOW TO APPLYThe Fall Grant Portal will be open August 23, 2021 -...
Sep 15, 2021

Climate change cited as reason to deny injunction extension over logging in B.C.
NANAIMO, B.C. - A lawyer representing a man opposed to the extension of an injunction against ongoing protests over old-growth logging says the B.C. Supreme Court should keep in mind public concerns o...
Sep 15, 2021

Ex-House speaker settles child sexual abuse payments suit
YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Once powerful former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and a man who accused him of child sexual abuse reached a tentative out-of-court settlement Wednesday over Hastert's refus...
Sep 15, 2021

Canadian featherweight T.J. (The Truth) Laramie to fight on UFC 268 undercard
Canadian featherweight T.J. (The Truth) Laramie will fight American Melsik (The Gun) Baghdasaryan on the undercard of UFC 268 on Nov. 6 at Madison Square Garden. Both fighters are graduates of Dana Wh...
Sep 15, 2021

States learning how many Afghan evacuees coming their way
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration on Wednesday began notifying governors and state refugee coordinators across the country about how many Afghan evacuees from among the first group of nearly ...
Sep 15, 2021

Refugee claimants take Safe Third Country Agreement appeal to Supreme Court
OTTAWA - Refugee claimants and their advocates are asking the Supreme Court of Canada to review a decision that affirmed the constitutionality of a key pact between Ottawa and Washington on asylum see...
Sep 15, 2021

UCP backbencher urges Kenney to admit he botched COVID-19 response, take action
One of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's legislature members is calling on him to admit he botched the fourth wave of COVID-19 and to outline a plan to fix it.Leela Aheer, in a posting on Twitter, says t...
Sep 15, 2021

Federal parties fuzzy on offshore future as scientists call for end to extraction
HALIFAX - As prominent climate scientists argue that new offshore oil and gas extraction must end off Canada's East Coast, the three main political parties either support continued development or are ...
Sep 15, 2021

Chiefs' Reid deflects attention as he approaches NFL history
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Good luck getting Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid to ruminate on the fact that he's nearing NFL history, just one win away from becoming the first to reach 100 with two different...
Sep 15, 2021

Montreal care home doctor worried about lack of staff as COVID-19 hit, coroner hears
MONTREAL - A doctor who treated residents of a Montreal-area care home where dozens of patients died of COVID-19 says she was concerned about the lack of staff and personal protective equipment at the...
Sep 15, 2021