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Canada to host Lima Group ministers meeting on Venezuela crisis next week
OTTAWA - Canada is calling a meeting of its Lima Group partners next week to try to build new momentum in their effort to bring democracy to Venezuela. Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champ...
Feb 14, 2020
Trades Hall of Fame to honour visionary Albertans
EDMONTON- Nominations for the first inductees to the new Alberta Trades Hall of Fame opened on February 13.Albertans are encouraged to consider nominating someone who has demonstrated extraordinary de...
Feb 14, 2020

Rep. Dan Crenshaw to combine memoir, advice in upcoming book
NEW YORK - Rep. Dan Crenshaw , the Texas Republican, has a book out in April. The former Navy SEAL's book is called "Fortitude" and will combine personal memories and "no-nonsense" advice as Crenshaw ...
Feb 14, 2020

Lethbridge the first in Alberta to offer “green burials”
LETHBRIDGE- The area might not look too green right now, but the City of Lethbridge hopes a section of the Royal View Memorial Cemetery will offer a more eco-friendly method of burial.As the city's Ce...
Feb 14, 2020 The area where green burials will be offered in Royal View Memorial Cemetery. (Lethbridge News Now)

Friends, targets salute Christie Blatchford's 'insightful,' 'unrelenting' career
TORONTO - Veteran court reporter, celebrated author and biting newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford, whose vivid prose championed cops, kids and soldiers while challenging corruption and hashtag so...
Feb 14, 2020

New Zealand teams find British hiker's body in national park
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Searchers found the body of British hiker Stephanie Simpson on Friday almost a week after she went hiking in a New Zealand national park. Her body was found in the Pyke Creek...
Feb 14, 2020

Canadian officials helping in Japan after 12 Canadians contract virus on ship
MUNICH - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says Canadian health workers are assisting in Japan after 12 Canadians contracted the novel coronavirus while on a cruise ship. ...
Feb 14, 2020

Town of Ponoka selling airport to Ponoka Flying Club
PONOKA- Town council in Ponoka has pproved a motion authorizing the sale of the Ponoka Industrial Airport to the Ponoka Flying Club for $385,000. The club will also become the operating authority for ...
Feb 14, 2020

Virus infects more than 1,700 health workers in China, 6 die
BEIJING - More than 1,700 Chinese medical workers have been infected by the new virus that has killed nearly 1,400 people and spread to other parts of Asia and as far as the U.S. and Europe, a senior ...
Feb 14, 2020

2020 Democrats step up attacks to blunt Bloomberg's rise
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidates hoping to revive their flagging campaigns increasingly took aim at Mike Bloomberg, blasting their billionaire rival for trying to buy his way into the W...
Feb 14, 2020