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Alberta's Notley talks pipelines, energy on last day of election campaign
CALGARY - Alberta's NDP leader spent the final day of the provincial election campaign contrasting her winning-hearts-and-minds approach to building pipelines with the more combative strategy of ...
Apr 17, 2019
Two phase Housing Strategy presented to Lethbridge City Council
LETHBRIDGE, AB - After nearly a year in development, a two-phase Lethbridge Housing Strategy was presented to Lethbridge City Council by the Municipal Housing Task Force, at Monday's regular meeting (...
Apr 17, 2019 City Hall -Photo by Lethbridge News Now
Ivanka Trump says she passed on World Bank job
ABIDJIAN, Cote d'Ivoire - White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump says her father asked her if she was interested in taking the job of World Bank chief but she passed on it. In an Associated Press int...
Apr 17, 2019
Norman's lawyers cite SNC-Lavalin testimony in fight for secret documents
OTTAWA - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's lawyers are trying to use testimony from the country's top bureaucrat during the SNC-Lavalin affair to gain access to secret government documents about their client...
Apr 17, 2019
Sentencing hearing for man who killed Manitoba woman in botched robbery
WINNIPEG - The best friend of a Manitoba Indigenous woman killed during a botched robbery looked at a man found guilty in the death and asked how a life could be worth only $45. In January, a jur...
Apr 17, 2019
Maple Leafs, Bruins reflect on 'shocking' playoff exit for Lightning
TORONTO - Bruce Cassidy didn't see it coming. And quite frankly, neither did many others. A day after the Tampa Bay Lightning - the Presidents' Trophy winners, a team that tied the NHL record for wins...
Apr 17, 2019
Ottawa says it will sell back Mirabel land expropriated for airport in 1969
MIRABEL, Que. - The Canadian government made a "big mistake" in 1969 when it expropriated thousands of hectares of land north of Montreal to build the ill-fated Mirabel airport project, Transport Mini...
Apr 17, 2019
Legault congratulates Kenney but says Quebec won't accept a new oil pipeline
QUEBEC - Premier Francois Legault is congratulating Jason Kenney on his electoral victory in Alberta while reminding the incoming premier that Quebec's position on oil pi...
Apr 17, 2019
Closing illegal pot shops an uphill battle until demand is met, say authorities
TORONTO - In the weeks before cannabis became legal across Canada, Toronto's once booming network of weed retailers all but disappeared. Nearly 80 pot shops advertising themselves as dispensaries had ...
Apr 17, 2019
Mississippi flag minus rebel X on license plate
JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi residents who want a state flag without the Confederate battle emblem now can display one on their license plate. Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill Tuesday authorizing the st...
Apr 17, 2019