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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Senate committee says oil tanker ban off B.C. targets Alberta, divides country
OTTAWA - A Senate committee says the Trudeau government's bill to ban oil tanker traffic off British Columbia's northern coast will divide the country, inflame separatist sentiment in Alberta and stok...
Jun 05, 2019
Improving Canada’s recycling output will take ‘radical changes’: report
By Mia Rabson OTTAWA - An analysis of Canada's plastic industry shows the industry producing plastic dwarfs the industry trying to recycle it. The report, completed by consulting firms Deloitte and Ch...
Jun 05, 2019 An analysis of Canada's plastic industry shows the industry producing plastic dwarfs the industry trying to recycle it. Plastic water bottles are pictured in a blue box recycle bin in North Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, May 7, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Green’s call for ban on foreign oil imports, using Alberta oil instead
OTTAWA - Green party Leader Elizabeth May says saving the world from climate change requires Canada to get off oil before the middle of the century. In the meantime, she wants Canada off foreign oil a...
May 27, 2019 Green Party leader Elizabeth May speaks with reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. May says saving the world from climate change requires Canada to get off oil before the middle of the century. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Raptors fans far from home adjust plans to watch pivotal playoff game
By Michelle McQuigge, The Canadian Press As the Toronto Raptors gear up for a game that could mark a milestone in team history, fans at home and abroad are making preparations of their own. Soc...
May 25, 2019
Trudeau exonerates Saskatchewan chief of historic treason conviction
CUT KNIFE, Sask. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has exonerated a Saskatchewan chief of treason more than 130 years after his conviction and apologized to his people for the hardship their leader's un...
May 23, 2019
Crews fight fire with fire to keep blaze from northern Alberta town
HIGH LEVEL, Alta. - A fire-threatened town in northern Alberta says a successful controlled burn has been carried out to help keep a raging nearby wildfire at bay. A statement on High Level's website ...
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Alberta legislature session to begin under new Premier Jason Kenney
EDMONTON - The Alberta legislature is to start a new session today with a lot of new faces and a new government in charge. Premier Jason Kenney and the 63 members of his United Conservative caucus are...
May 21, 2019 Alberta Premier Jason Kenney reacts to a question as he speaks to reporters on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 2, 2019. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and his new government head to the house this week to launch an ambitious legislative agenda of loud changes set to the sounds of silence. Kenney has promised what he calls a "spring of renewal" in his United Conservatives' first legislature session since winning the April 16 election over former premier Rachel Notley's NDP. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Nova Scotia’s harsh winter coast stars in horror film screened at Cannes
Nova Scotia's unforgiving coast has a starring role - alongside Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson - in a new fantasy-horror film that screened to strong reviews at the Cannes Film Festival in France t...
May 19, 2019
Long-awaited end to Canada’s tariff standoff with U.S. finally at hand
OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration agreed Friday to drop its punitive and controversial tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, ending a bitter dispute between historic allies and r...
May 17, 2019
Trudeau offers Canadian lumber, steel to help rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral
By Catherine Levesque PARIS - Canada is offering softwood lumber and steel to help with the reconstruction of Paris's famed Notre Dame Cathedral, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday after tou...
May 15, 2019 Restoration Project Chief Architect Philippe Villeneuve gives Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Rector-Archpriest of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral Patrick Chauvet a tour of the remains of the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral in Paris, Wednesday, May 15, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Sarah Mills: There are echoes of Brexit in the Albert separation issue
A referendum over whether Alberta should separate from Canada is looming closer, and Sarah Mills says there are similari...
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Evan discusses the consequences of Alberta's separatism talk, unearths a Saskatchewan gem to visit this summer and meets...
