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CALGARY, AB. -- Canadian meat packers say they are dealing with a labour shortage crisis and must be allowed to bring in more temporary foreign workers.The Canadian Meat Council says there are more th...

TABER, AB - Members of the public are being advised of fraudulent callers claiming to with law enforcement agencies.Taber RCMP have been notified that the detachment's phone number was "spoofed" and u...

LONDON (AP) - Oleksandr Usyk is giving up 19 pounds (9 kilograms) on world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua for their fight on Saturday. Usyk, the challenger from Ukraine, tipped the scales at 221 ...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Brooks-Medicine Hat MLA Michaela Glasgo is facing some jarring criticism from her own constituency board today.Local UCP association president Jeremiah Benoit says Glasgo has refuse...

Phil Berna took close to a month off after the Tokyo Olympics and then the competitive juices started flowing again. "I called myself back into training," said the 25-year-old from Vancouver. "The tim...

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays will get a home-field advantage boost when they return to Rogers Centre next week. Seating capacity at the downtown stadium will be doubled to 30,000 starting with Tues...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Sept. 24 ... What we are watching in Canada .....

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police have recovered six stolen vehicles with a total value of $250,000.Officers found two men in a stolen car on September 21 in the 1700 block of Mayor Magrath Drive Sou...

OTTAWA - The federal government ran a deficit of more than $48 billion over the first four months of its fiscal year, about $100 billion less than the treasury pumped out during the same period one ye...

ROME (AP) - A judge in Sardinia will order jailed Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont released from jail later on Friday ahead of a court decision on Spain's extradition request, Puigdemont's ...