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California to offer $116M in coronavirus vaccine prize money
LOS ANGELES (AP) - California is giving away the country's largest pot of vaccine prize money, $116.5 million, in an attempt to get millions more inoculated before the most populous U.S. state fully r...
May 27, 2021
Quebec partially reopens major bridge in Montreal closed last week for safety reasons
MONTREAL - The Quebec government says a major Montreal bridge closed last week for safety reasons will be gradually reopened to traffic starting Friday. The le-aux-Tourtes bridge, one of the main brid...
May 27, 2021
Canadian makes NFL history, landing executive job with Eagles
PHILADELPHIA - Canada's Catherine Raiche has become the highest-ranking woman in personnel in NFL history after receiving a promotion from the Philadelphia Eagles. Raiche was named vice president of f...
May 27, 2021
CRA estimates 30,000 self-employed people may not have to repay CERB
OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency says thousands of self-employed workers who received emergency benefits last year won't have to repay any of it, as long as they meet certain conditions.For anyone w...
May 27, 2021
Wayne Gretzky rookie card sells for US$3.75 million, smashing record
DALLAS - An American auction company says it has shattered its own record on the sale of a Wayne Gretzky rookie card. Heritage Auctions says it has sold a 1979 O-Pee-Chee Gretzky rookie card to an ano...
May 27, 2021
Kenney, Dr. Hinshaw to discuss Alberta's reopening plan
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw will provide an update this afternoon the province's efforts to contain COVID-19 and fully reopen by mid-summer. A ne...
May 27, 2021
Lethbridge Chamber excited for businesses reopening, in-person events returning
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Many business owners were likely pleased with Wednesday's announcement of the Alberta Government's "Open for Summer Plan."Premier Jason Kenney unveiled the new three-staged program fo...
May 27, 2021
World body says Canadian beef officially poses 'negligible risk' for mad cow disease
WASHINGTON - An international animal-health watchdog has officially declared Canadian beef as posing "negligible risk" for mad cow disease. The designation, which is the most preferred category, was a...
May 27, 2021
Man shot and killed by Red Deer Mounties armed with bow: ASIRT
The investigation by Alberta's police watchdog into a fatal police-involved shooting in Red Deer continues.On Monday, May 24, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) was directed to investi...
May 27, 2021
Local toddler in hospital after button battery burns a hole in her throat
MEDICINE HAT, AB - What started as a cough for two-year-old Abigail turned into her parents' nightmare.Sheldon and Victoria Akers took their daughter to the hospital on May 3 when the happy-go-lucky t...
May 27, 2021