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Ontario, Maritimes premiers meet to talk health care but offer no details, solutions
MONCTON, N.B. - The premiers of the Maritimes and of Ontario say they need a "Team Canada" approach to fixing the country's health-care problems, but none of the leaders is offering any specifics or s...
Aug 22, 2022

Crowsnest Pass man charged with child sexual exploitation offences
COLEMAN, AB - A 35-year-old man from Coleman has been apprehended after allegedly committing offenses related to the sexual exploitation of a youth.The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team's (ALERT) ...
Aug 22, 2022

Ethics board: SD Gov. Noem may have 'engaged in misconduct’
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A South Dakota ethics board on Monday said it found sufficient information that Gov. Kristi Noem may have "engaged in misconduct" when she intervened in her daughter's applica...
Aug 22, 2022

Authorities believe body found in reservoir is missing teen
TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities believe that a body found in a Northern California reservoir is that of 16-year-old Kiely Rodni, who went missing after attending a large party at a Sierra Nevada ca...
Aug 22, 2022

Southern Alberta athletes taking home medals at Canada Summer Games
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Team Alberta had a successful showing at the 2022 Canada Summer Games in Niagara, Ontario. The Games came to a close on Sunday, August 21, 2022, after just over two weeks of competiti...
Aug 22, 2022

Islanders sign defencemen Noah Dobson and Alexander Romanov
EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) - The New York Islanders have signed defencemen Noah Dobson and Alexander Romanov to three-year contracts. The Islanders also announced Monday the signing of forward Kieffer Bel...
Aug 22, 2022

Nova Scotia RCMP 'dysfunctions,' labour shortages predated 2020 mass shootings
HALIFAX - Most of Nova Scotia's senior RCMP staff believed there were "dysfunctions" at their division prior to the 2020 mass shootings and felt abandoned by their superiors in the aftermath, accordin...
Aug 22, 2022

Canada buys up millions more doses of Moderna's bivalent COVID-19 vaccine
OTTAWA - Moderna says the federal government has purchased a total of 12 million doses of the company's bivalent vaccine that targets both the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant. Cana...
Aug 22, 2022

Lethbridge residents scammed out of $550K so far this year
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) says scammers have been keeping themselves busy in 2022.So far this year, police say locals have reported the loss of more than $500,000 in cash th...
Aug 22, 2022

Jury gets case of 2 men charged in Gov. Whitmer plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A jury has heard closing arguments and begun deliberations in the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The jury in Grand...
Aug 22, 2022