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Cdn pork, beef exports to China to resume after a four-month suspension
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadian pork and beef exports to China will resume. China suspended imports in June amid the dispute over Canada's detention of a top executive at the...
Nov 05, 2019
Wolf Creek Public Schools loses $1.8M in provincial funding
Officials with Wolf Creek Public Schools say the division will see a $1.8 million educational funding shortfall as a result of the provincial budget tabled last month. "We knew that this was going to ...
Nov 05, 2019
Defending-champion Calgary Stampeders face longer road to Grey Cup
TORONTO - The road to a fourth straight Grey Cup appearance will be a little longer than usual for Bo Levi Mitchell and the Calgary Stampeders. Calgary (12-6) hosts the Winnipeg Blue Bombers...
Nov 05, 2019
Legendary Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado dies at 88
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Television astrologer Walter Mercado, whose glamorous persona made him a star in Latin media and a cherished icon for gay people in most of the Spanish-speaking world, has died...
Nov 05, 2019
ABC says interview with Epstein accuser wasn't ready to air
NEW YORK - ABC News is defending itself against charges that it was afraid to air an interview with a Jeffrey Epstein accuser after video emerged Tuesday showing its reporter, Amy Robach, venting abou...
Nov 05, 2019
Spanx founder buys Olivia Newton-John's 'Grease' pants
NEW YORK - The founder of Spanx was revealed to be the successful bidder for the skintight satin pants that Olivia Newton-John wore in the movie "Grease." Sara Blakely told "CBS This Morning" Tuesday ...
Nov 05, 2019
AP source: White House finds Pelosi drug plan 'unworkable'
WASHINGTON - The White House says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan authorizing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices is "unworkable" and President Donald Trump is instead supporting bipartis...
Nov 05, 2019
Bosnian war survivors protest Peter Handke's Nobel prize win
SARAJEVO, Bosnia - Bosnian war survivors, including mothers who lost husbands and sons in the Srebrenica massacre, protested Tuesday in Sarajevo, urging the Nobel Committee to reverse its decision to ...
Nov 05, 2019
At least 9 US citizens die in cartel attack in north Mexico
MEXICO CITY - Drug cartel gunmen ambushed three SUVs along a dirt road, slaughtering at least six children and three women - all of them U.S. citizens living in northern Mexico - in a grisly attack th...
Nov 05, 2019
Blackfalds RCMP remind motorists to slow down on icy roads
RCMP and Alberta Transportation are warning motorists to avoid any travel on the QEII between Red Deer and Ponoka. Mounties say a semi tractor trailer unit jackknifed north of Highway 12 this afternoo...
Nov 05, 2019 A school bus crashed along Highway 11 westbound, west of Red Deer Tuesday morning. No students were on board at the time. (Twitter photo shared by @wick186)