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Preliminary work for Medicine Hat provincial audit has begun
Preliminary work for an expected provincial audit of Medicine Hat city hall was revealed by officials on Thursday to have already begun.The process could produce a series of recommendations that Premi...
Oct 11, 2024
Canada's Fernandez, Indonesia's Sutjiadi advance to Wuhan Open women's doubles semis
WUHAN - Canada's Leylah Fernandez and Indonesia's Aldila Sutjiadi advanced to the women's doubles semifinals at the Wuhan Open tennis tournament on Friday. The duo defeated the second-seeded team of A...
Oct 11, 2024
Lethbridge Chamber presents Business Awards
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Some of the city's very best businesses were honoured at the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce's 2024 Business Awards.They were presented at an event on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, at th...
Oct 11, 2024
Longueuil woman charged after 10-year-old boy scalded with boiling water
MONTREAL - A woman from Montreal's South Shore has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly splashing a 10-year-old boy with boiling water. Longueuil, Que., police this morning arrested St...
Oct 11, 2024
Lethbridge unemployment rate rises as less people look for work
LETHBRIDGE, AB - A southern Alberta city had a slight increase in its unemployment rate last month.Statistics Canada has released its Labour Force Survey for September 2024.It says the unemployment ra...
Oct 11, 2024
Economy adds 47,000 jobs in September, unemployment rate falls to 6.5 per cent
The economy added 47,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate declined for the first time since January to 6.5 per cent.Statistics Canada says youth and women aged 25 to 54 drove employment ...
Oct 11, 2024
Alberta nurses to hold ratification vote on mediator-recommended agreement
Nurses in Alberta are set to vote later this month on a mediator's recommended settlement with their employers.The United Nurses of Alberta says an online ratification vote will take place on Oct. 30....
Oct 11, 2024
UN mission in Lebanon says 2 peacekeepers injured after its base was hit by new explosions
BEIRUT (AP) - The U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon says new explosions hit its headquarters on Friday morning, injuring two peacekeepers, a day after Israeli forces struck the same position...
Oct 11, 2024
Montreal's Taiga Motors sells to British electric boat entrepreneur Stuart Wilkinson
Taiga Motors Corp. says the Superior Court of Qubec has approved its sale to a British electric boat entrepreneur. The Montreal-based maker of snowmobiles and watercraft says it will be purchased by S...
Oct 11, 2024
North Korea accuses South Korea of flying drones to its capital and threatens to attack next time
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea has accused rival South Korea of flying drones to its capital to drop anti-North Korean propaganda leaflets and threatened to respond with force if such flights o...
Oct 11, 2024