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Beezie Madden wins CP International Grand Prix at Calgary's Spruce Meadows
CALGARY - Beezie Madden had just one fault on her way to capturing the CP International Grand Prix at the Spruce Meadows Masters on Sunday. After going clear in the first round of competition abo...
Sep 09, 2019

Federal response to 'gig' workers hindered by unreliable data, documents say
OTTAWA - A newly released government document shows that federal officials feel stymied by data roadblocks in their bid to help policymakers tackle a growing political concern about the country's "gig...
Sep 09, 2019

In the news today, Sept. 9
Six stories in the news for Monday, Sept. 9 --- POST DORIAN CLEANUP A MASSIVE TASK Post-tropical storm Dorian may have departed Atlantic Canada but the scars it inflicted across the region w...
Sep 09, 2019

New Saudi energy minister urges producers to share burden
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia's new energy minister says producers "have to share responsibility" to balance the market. Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman spoke Monday in Abu Dhabi at an en...
Sep 09, 2019

Russia and Ukraine trade prisoners, each fly 35 to freedom
MOSCOW - Russia and Ukraine conducted a major prisoner exchange that freed 35 people detained in each country and flew them to the other, a deal that could help advance Russia-Ukraine relations and en...
Sep 09, 2019

Dorian topples crane, knocks out power in eastern Canada
TORONTO - Dorian arrived on Canada's Atlantic coast Saturday with heavy rain and powerful winds, toppling a construction crane in Halifax and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people a d...
Sep 09, 2019

Artist, researcher displays Newfoundland's connections to slave trade
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - An art installation at this year's Bonavista Biennale is shining a light on a dark corner of Newfoundland's history - slave ships that were built on the island during...
Sep 09, 2019

Afghans brace for fresh violence after US-Taliban talks halt
KABUL - Afghans are bracing for a possible new wave of Taliban violence after President Donald Trump abruptly called off talks with the insurgent group, which vows to continue its fight against what i...
Sep 08, 2019

Rose Aladedunye - kindness to a stranger, and the man who paid her back
LETHBRIDGE -- Something a little bit extraordinary happened on Tuesday, Sept. 4, as Rose Aladedunye was working. It was something neither she, nor her sister- who was minding one of the stores she own...
Sep 08, 2019 Rose and her sister -- LNN

Collision south of Grande Prairie claims life of Lethbridge woman
GRANDE PRAIRIE -- Grande Prairie: RCMP confirm a 42-Year old woman from Lethbridge was killed and a Grande Prairie man is hospitalized after a two-vehicle crash on Highway 40.The incident happened aro...
Sep 08, 2019 RCMP patch