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Average vet faces 32-week wait for benefits decision, double government target
OTTAWA - The long delays many veterans face when applying to the government for assistance for service-related injuries has reached a new milestone. Former service members have long been promised that...
Jul 03, 2019
Nutrien says 34 workers trapped underground after service shaft malfunction
SASKATOON - Nutrien Ltd. says 34 maintenance workers have been trapped in its Cory potash mine in Saskatchewan since Tuesday afternoon. Company spokesman Will Tigley says the service sh...
Jul 03, 2019
13th annual downtown Lethbridge Farmers' Market returns for the summer
LETHBRIDGE, AB - It's a cornucopia of homemade baking, local and B.C. produce and fruit, handmade crafts and goods in downtown Lethbridge. Lettuce from a Hutterite ColonyExhibition Park and the downto...
Jul 03, 2019 Farmers' Market
Newfoundland travellers contract mysterious disease traced to cave trip in Cuba
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A woman is warning travellers to thoroughly research any adventurous excursions abroad after she and several other Newfoundlanders became ill from a mysterious disease traced b...
Jul 03, 2019
Ottawa Senators add experience with signings of Ron Hainsey, Tyler Ennis
OTTAWA - Pierre Dorion added the veteran leadership he was looking for on the opening day of free agency. The Ottawa Senators general manager signed veteran defenceman Ron Hainsey to a one-year d...
Jul 03, 2019
Gauff, just 15, shocks 5-time champ Venus, 39, at Wimbledon
WIMBLEDON, England - Coco Gauff grew up admiring the Williams sisters. Picked up a tennis racket as a little girl because of them. And on Monday at Wimbledon, still just 15, Gauff beat one of them. Ga...
Jul 03, 2019
Calgary Flames sign former Oilers goaltender Cam Talbot to one-year contract
CALGARY - Players in the fold were more of a priority for the Calgary Flames than the open market when NHL free agency opened Monday. Not blessed with copious cap space, and restricted free ...
Jul 03, 2019
Quebec town is latest to consider letting kids play legally on streets
MONTREAL - There is a growing movement in Quebec to bring back the fun - by legalizing kids' play in streets and alleyways. Municipalities across the province have begun experimenting with the not-so-...
Jul 03, 2019
Special prosecutor to aid probe into Alberta United Conservative leadership vote
EDMONTON - The Alberta government says a special out-of-province prosecutor will assist in a criminal fraud investigation into the United Conservative Party leadership race won by ...
Jul 03, 2019
Out-of-province investigator to look into possible voter identity fraud in UCP leadership race
EDMONTON, AB - The Alberta government says a special out-of-province prosecutor will assist in a criminal fraud investigation into the United Conservative Party leadership race won by Jason Kenney bef...
Jul 03, 2019 Jason Kenney. (Supplied by Jason Kenney on Facebook)