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Parks Canada is considering a captive caribou breeding program, though experts warn the plan is risky
EDMONTON - Parks Canada is preparing a plan to round up female caribou from nearly vanished herds and pen them in a captive breeding program to replenish others.The move is being made as a last-ditch ...
Nov 02, 2020
Local speed skating club receives $15,000 in COVID-19 relief funding
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Speed Skating Association has received some relief to weather the COVID-19 storm.In September, Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities announced an $8 million sport relief fu...
Nov 02, 2020
No budget yet for Liberals' promise to plant two billion trees by 2030
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's massive tree-planting promise from the 2019 election has yet to be allocated a single dime. Trudeau pledged a year ago that the government would plant tw...
Nov 02, 2020
Canadian soldier killed in Netherlands in Second World War identified
OTTAWA - The Defence Department says it's identified remains of a Canadian soldier buried in a cemetery in the Netherlands near the end of the Second World War. Trooper Henry George Johnston's identit...
Nov 02, 2020
Piikani Nation enters work partnership with operating engineers union
BROCKET, AB - A partnership has been formed between the Piikani Nation and the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 955.In a release, it was stated that the agreement is based around a tra...
Nov 02, 2020
Bruised and haunted, US holds tight as 2020 campaigns close
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Just over her mask, Patra Okelo's eyes brimmed with tears when she recalled the instant that a truth about America dawned and her innocence burned away. One moment on Aug. 11, 2...
Nov 02, 2020
US construction spending up again, rises 0.3% in September
SILVER SPRING, Md. - U.S. construction spending rose 0.3% in September, the fourth straight monthly gain after a coronavirus-caused spring swoon, although a smaller gain than analysts had expected. Th...
Nov 02, 2020
Blanchet seeks to drive values wedge between Quebec and Trudeau government
OTTAWA - Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet is doubling down on efforts to draw a line separating his party's values and those of the Trudeau Liberals, particularly on the fraught ground of fre...
Nov 02, 2020
Hurricane Eta threatens to bring flooding, storm surge
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - New Hurricane Eta quickly gained force Monday as it headed for Central America on the verge of becoming a major hurricane, threatening massive flooding and landslides across a vul...
Nov 02, 2020
US manufacturing activity at highest levels in two years
WASHINGTON - U.S. manufacturing posted a strong gain in October to the highest level in two years even as coronavirus cases have begun to surge again in many parts of the country. The Institute for Su...
Nov 02, 2020