Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
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Dangling Edmonton window-washer rescued from swinging scaffolding
EDMONTON - A window-washer dangling from rigging on the side of a downtown Edmonton skyscraper had to be rescued and carried to an ambulance on a stretcher Friday. A video taken by a witness showed th...
Oct 25, 2019
Saskatchewan school janitor on paid leave after allegedly told not to speak Cree
TIMBER BAY - A janitor from northern Saskatchewan who was allegedly told not to speak Cree says she was recently placed on paid leave, pending the outcome of an investigation by the Northern Lights Sc...
Oct 25, 2019
Liberals: TMX pipeline could fund $500 million a year in clean energy projects
OTTAWA - The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that pull carb...
Oct 24, 2019
Trump includes Colorado in states getting border wall
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's boast of building part of the border wall in Colorado is garnering attention in the state, including from the state's governor, Democrat Jared Polis. Trump was sp...
Oct 24, 2019
Alberta UCP government to table first budget, warns of program spending cuts
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is to table a budget today that will cut program spending by nearly three per cent. The budget is the first under Premier Jason Kenney's United Conservative governmen...
Oct 24, 2019 Premier Jason Kenney. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken file photo
Trudeau regrets negative tone of campaign, promises co-operation ahead
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed regret Wednesday for the nastiness of the federal election campaign and vowed to find a way to work co-operatively with other parties in the next Parli...
Oct 23, 2019
Mock federal election for students also ends in Liberal minority
If Canada's elementary and high school students were the ones responsible for electing the country's government, this week's vote would still have ended in a Liberal minority. A project that saw more ...
Oct 23, 2019
Police investigate after man, two children found dead in apparent murder suicide
Montreal police are investigating the discovery of the bodies of two children and their father as an apparent double murder followed by a suicide. Police say a woman phoned 911 just after 9 p.m. Tuesd...
Oct 23, 2019 Neighbours leave stuffed animals and toys at the doorstep of a home in Montreal on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Montreal police are investigating the discovery of the bodies of two children and their father as an apparent double murder followed by a suicide. Police say a woman phoned 911 just after 9 p.m. Tuesday to report that three people were possibly dead inside an east-end home -- a 40 year-old man, a seven-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Upstart People’s Party had little impact on election results: Analysis
OTTAWA - Conservatives worried the upstart People's Party of Canada would result in a vote-split on the right can rest a little easier. A riding-by-riding analysis by The Canadian Press shows while th...
Oct 23, 2019
Singh calls for reform of ‘broken’ voting system after NDP falls short in Quebec
BURNABY, B.C. - If there's any election that has highlighted how "broken" Canada's electoral system is, it's this one, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said in his morning-after assessment. Monday's vote saw ...
Oct 22, 2019
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