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Business of the Year award winners announced in Lethbridge
LETHBRIDGE, AB - 13 of the city's top businesses and entrepreneurs were formally recognized at the 2019 Business of the Year Awards gala.Over 80 nominees were considered.The winners are as follows:Bus...
Oct 18, 2019 The award ceremony for the 2019 Business of the Year awards. (Supplied by Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce)
Repeat rent-dodger dubbed 'professional squatter' prompts call for reform
HALIFAX - A Halifax coffee shop owner who says he tried for more than four months to evict a tenant he called a "professional squatter" is calling for reforms to Nova Sco...
Oct 18, 2019
B.C. working to move away from established illegal pot industry: minister
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's solicitor general says the government has been working hard to transition away from the province's "well-entrenched" illegal marijuana industry. Mike Farn...
Oct 18, 2019
Officials: Blast at Afghan mosque kills 62 during prayers
KABUL - An explosion rocked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan as dozens of people gathered for Friday prayers, causing the roof to collapse and killing 62 worshippers, provincial officials said. The att...
Oct 18, 2019
Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd is dead at 62
Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd, who led two Silicon Valley giants, has died at 62. Oracle confirmed his death Friday, but gave no cause. Hurd was on medical leave, which Oracle announced in September . Durin...
Oct 18, 2019
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg in Edmonton on Friday for climate strike
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said he hopes Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg is warmly welcomed in Edmonton on Friday, but there are no plans to meet with her. Climat...
Oct 18, 2019
Former Raptor Kawhi Leonard still feeling love from Canadian basketball fans
VANCOUVER - Canadians continue to be stereotypically polite to former Toronto Raptors star Kawhi Leonard. The latest example came Thursday when Leonard made his Canadian homecoming with the Los Angele...
Oct 18, 2019
Two men charged in connection with alleged hotel robbery
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police have charged two men in connection with a robbery at a the Superlodge Hotel on Wednesday night and a search warrant executed on a home in south Lethbridge Thursday m...
Oct 18, 2019 Lethbridge Police execute a search warrant on a home in south Lethbridge Thursday
State has no place in the wardrobes of the nation: Trudeau
WHITBY, Ont. - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is refusing to say whether he thinks the Quebec secularism law is discriminatory, even as he says governments should not tell people how to dress. "I have ...
Oct 18, 2019
Singh urges voters to ignore Liberal warnings about voting for NDP
NANAIMO, B.C. - Jagmeet Singh is encouraging progressive voters not to fall for what he says are Liberal scare tactics and instead cast their ballots for the New Democrats with confidence. The Liberal...
Oct 18, 2019