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RDC curling teams ready to rock 2019 season
The RDC Kings and Queens curling teams are back at it and ready for another run at ACAC glory.Last year, the mixed team won bronze at the ACAC Championships, while the Queens took fourth."We have a go...
Nov 24, 2019

Andrew Harris leads Winnipeg Blue Bombers to first Grey Cup win since 1990
CALGARY - A historic first by Andrew Harris ended the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' dubious championship drought and continued the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' Grey Cup misery. The 32-year-old Winnipeg nat...
Nov 24, 2019

New foreign minister presses for Canadian detainees with China counterpart
OTTAWA - Canada's new foreign affairs minister hit the ground running this weekend, spending an hour in face-to-face talks with his Chinese counterpart over the fate of two Canadian men that the Trude...
Nov 24, 2019

Former Desjardins Group president Claude Beland dead at 87
MONTREAL - Former Desjardins Group president Claude Beland has died at the age of 87, the Quebec-based financial institution confirmed Sunday. Beland was elected to the head of Desjardins in 1987 and ...
Nov 24, 2019

Lacombe's senior hockey fans get their beloved moniker back
We can once again call Lacombe's senior hockey team the Generals.Formerly the North Central Hockey League's Eckville Eagles, the franchise relocated to Lacombe over the summer. However, there was stil...
Nov 24, 2019 (rdnewsNOW file photo)

Diahann Carroll’s legacy as a trailblazer remembered
NEW YORK - Diahann Carroll was remembered as a brilliant talent, a loving friend and mother and a trailblazer by the likes of Cicely Tyson, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Lenny Kravitz and more a...
Nov 24, 2019

Pentagon chief fires Navy secretary over SEAL controversy
WASHINGTON - Defence Secretary Mark Esper has fired the secretary of the Navy in connection with the controversy over a SEAL whose case has been championed by President Donald Trump. A Pentagon spokes...
Nov 24, 2019

Left foot, right foot, Snickers and Skittles — superstitions abound with Grey Cup teams
CALGARY - Football players prefer to call them pre-game rituals rather than superstitions, but some Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats players are particular about what they do in...
Nov 24, 2019

CAPTURE program proving successful in solving crime
A Red Deer business manager is encouraging others to help deter crime by registering for the RCMP's CAPTURE program.Launched last July, Community Assisted Policing Through Use of Recorded Evidence (CA...
Nov 24, 2019

US officials: Don’t eat romaine grown in Salinas, California
NEW YORK - U.S. health officials on Friday told people to avoid romaine lettuce grown in Salinas, California, because of another food poisoning outbreak. The notice comes almost exactly one year after...
Nov 24, 2019