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Sharon Stone's dating profile restored after being blocked
LOS ANGELES - Sharon Stone can now return to mingling on Bumble without being kicked off the dating app. A Bumble spokesperson said in a statement Monday that Stone's profile has been restored after i...
Dec 31, 2019
Lethbridge Mayor looks back on 2019 as a year of great successes and big social challenges
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The final phase of the ATB Centre opened, the downtown Bus Terminal was completed, Cavendish opened its new doors in the Sherring Industrial Park, a thorough Fiscal and Operational Re...
Dec 31, 2019 Lethbridge Mayor Chris Spearman (Lethbridge News Now)
New industry develops around sucking carbon dioxide out of atmosphere
Somewhere in west Texas, amid one of the most productive oilfields in the continent, a Canadian company is building a plant that it hopes will eventually suck from the air a million tonnes of car...
Dec 31, 2019
US home prices gains accelerate in October for 2nd month
WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices rose faster in October than the previous month as many would-be buyers competed for a limited supply of available properties. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city h...
Dec 31, 2019
CP NewsAlert: Canadian men's hockey team captures Spengler Cup
DAVOS, Switzerland - Canada has won the Spengler Cup for the fourth time in the past five years. The national men's hockey team defeated Trinec Ocelari of the Czech Republic 4-0 in the final of t...
Dec 31, 2019
Quebec's pot age and Sask.'s microdistillery industry; In The News for Dec. 31
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 Dec. 31. What we are watching in Canada ... MO...
Dec 31, 2019
Saskatchewan microdistilleries focus on homegrown recipes for spirits
REGINA - The grains grown in Saskatchewan's fertile farmland have become the not-so-secret ingredient behind some one-of-a-kind vodka, gin and whisky. In recent years, microdistilling i...
Dec 31, 2019
Quebec raising legal age for cannabis to 21, the strictest in the country
MONTREAL - Quebecers under the age of 21 won't be able to buy or possess recreational cannabis as of Wednesday, ushering in the toughest age restrictions in the country since pot was legaliz...
Dec 31, 2019
Trump signs law to reduce robocalls, though they won't end
NEW YORK - An anti-robocalls measure signed into law Monday by President Donald Trump should help reduce the torrent of unwanted calls promising lower interest rates or pretending to be the IRS, thoug...
Dec 31, 2019
North Korean leader calls for 'military countermeasures'
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for active "diplomatic and military countermeasures" to preserve the country's security in a lengthy speech at a key political co...
Dec 31, 2019