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F1 season to start in Bahrain after Australian GP postponed
LONDON - The start of the Formula One season has been delayed after the Australian Grand Prix was postponed from March to November because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Australian race in Melbourne ha...
Jan 12, 2021
Gothams give virtual start to Oscar season, 'Nomadland' wins
NEW YORK - Streaming from an empty banquet hall and with acceptance speeches made from living rooms, the 30th Gotham Awards gave a very strange Oscar season a virtual start Monday in a largely digital...
Jan 11, 2021
UN chief Antonio Guterres declares he will seek second term
CAMEROON, Cameroon - Secretary-General Antonio Guterres officially declared Monday he is seeking a second five-year term at the helm of the United Nations. Guterres, whose current term ends next Dec. ...
Jan 11, 2021
Search continues for Hinton man missing since 2019
HINTON - RCMP continue to seek the public's assistance in the disappearance of 40-year-old Robert Allen Wetsch, who was last seen in Hinton, Alberta on May 19, 2019.Police say updated information in D...
Jan 11, 2021
Trudeau to shuffle cabinet as Bains departs as innovation minister
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to conduct a small shuffle of his cabinet Tuesday, sparked by the departure of Navdeep Bains, the minister of innovation, science and industry. Rumou...
Jan 11, 2021
Tiger trout now available to Alberta private pond owners
Tiger trout are being added as a licensed species of trout in 2021 for the Alberta aquaculture industry and private pond owners throughout rural Alberta, including farmers, ranchers and recreational p...
Jan 11, 2021
Special Olympics Alberta Polar Plunge going virtual
The people behind the annual Special Olympics Alberta Polar Plunge weren't about to let the 10th year go by quietly at the hands of the pandemic.And so like so many other events, it's going virtual th...
Jan 11, 2021
Nova Scotia cancels playdowns; Murphy back to Brier, Brothers gets Scotties invite
Nova Scotia became the latest province to cancel its curling playdowns Monday due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it further stoked the debate on how best to decide on provincial representative...
Jan 11, 2021
Red Deer with 240 active COVID-19 cases as of Monday
Alberta reported another 639 cases of COVID-19 on Monday.That's out of 9,838 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of 6.1 per cent.There are now 13,917 active cases in Alberta, dow...
Jan 11, 2021
Sister says brother's ashes that seemed lost in transit are now home
VANCOUVER - A woman says her little brother can now be laid to rest after his ashes reached her Metro Vancouver home from Edmonton weeks later than promised. Courtney Baker says her mother in Maple Ri...
Jan 11, 2021