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Three Hamilton Police Service officers stabbed, suffer serious injuries: police
HAMILTON - The Hamilton Police Service says three of its officers are being treated in hospital for stab wounds after responding to reports of an armed man in crisis on a city street.Const. Krista-Lee...
Dec 22, 2020
Train cars carrying crude oil derail, burn north of Seattle
BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Seven train cars carrying crude oil derailed Tuesday and five caught fire north of Seattle close to the Canadian border, authorities said. The derailment occurred in the downtown C...
Dec 22, 2020
COVID death reported in South Lethbridge, 1,021 cases confirmed in Alberta
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Alberta Health Services has released its report on COVID-19 for Tuesday, detailing statistics compiled over the past 24 hours.1,021 cases were confirmed across the province, bringing ...
Dec 22, 2020
Judge who visited protest teepee on Regina legislature grounds faces judicial review
REGINA - A judge who visited a Metis man at his protest camp on Saskatchewan's legislature grounds after ruling he was entitled to stay there is facing a review by his fellow judges. The Canadian Judi...
Dec 22, 2020
Anger, suspicion after Pakistani dissident Karima Mehrab found dead in Toronto
TORONTO - The apparent drowning death of an internationally prominent Pakistani dissident whose body was pulled from the water near downtown Toronto sparked anger, grief and suspicion on Tuesday.Polic...
Dec 22, 2020
COVID vaccines coming to Lethbridge, single Albertans can meet families for Christmas
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Premier Jason Kenney and Health Minister Tyler Shandro made a trio of COVID-related announcements Tuesday that should offer a glimmer of hope with Christmas right on the horizon - unf...
Dec 22, 2020
"Tampa Bay Raptaneers" set to tip off bizarre regular season against Pelicans
Before team president Masai Ujiri placed the lucky toonie in the Raptors' new practice floor, the team president held it aloft and said: "This is for the Tampa Bay Raptaneers." The joke was a referenc...
Dec 22, 2020
Louis Vuitton yoga mat made of leather draws Hindu complaint
BOSTON - A Hindu activist is calling on luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton to pull a yoga mat made partly from cowhide leather, calling it "hugely insensitive." Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Soc...
Dec 22, 2020
Canada and United Kingdom make stopgap deal to avert tariffs after Brexit
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada and Britain have agreed not to raise tariffs on each other's goods when the United Kingdom leaves the European Union at the end of the mont...
Dec 22, 2020
Canadian Blood Services opening plasma donor centre in Lethbridge
LETHBRIDGE, AB - A new Lethbridge plasma collection site is the second of three new centres in Canada for Canadian Blood Services and the first in the Western provinces. "The opening of the new plasma...
Dec 22, 2020