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Immigration issues come to life for PBHS students
PICTURE BUTTE - Immigration and refugees have dominated the news cycle for some time now. Those issues, however, hit a little closer to home for a group of Picture Butte High School students. With tho...
Mar 09, 2019
Facebook aims to reduce 'anti-vaxxer' messages, ads as part of 'safety' campaign
VANCOUVER - Facebook should ban posts by so-called anti-vaxxers in order to protect children against measles and other contagious diseases, says a British Columbia mother who launched a petition urgin...
Mar 09, 2019
Toronto Wolfpack collapse in second half in 46-16 loss to Toulouse Olympique
TOULOUSE, France - Trailing by 10 at the break, Toulouse Olympique reeled off 40 unanswered points in the second half Saturday as the Toronto Wolfpack suffered a rare loss in a 46-16 setback in Betfre...
Mar 09, 2019
Canadian Pacific appeals ministerial order on handbrakes
CALGARY, AB - Canadian Pacific Railway announced Friday it plans to appeal a ministerial order from Transport Canada requiring the use of handbrakes on all trains that are stopped on mountain slopes. ...
Mar 09, 2019
Transat flight from Montreal makes emergency landing in New Jersey
MONTREAL - Some 189 Air Transat passengers travelling from Montreal to Florida had a few scary moments Saturday morning after their plane was forced to make an emergency landing at a New Jersey airpor...
Mar 09, 2019
Plane makes emergency landing, passengers evacuated
NEWARK, N.J. - Smoke reported on board an Air Transat flight forced an emergency landing Saturday at a New Jersey airport, where the 189 passengers were evacuated by emergency slides. Air Transat Flig...
Mar 09, 2019
Suspect surrenders, hostages unharmed after armed siege in Quebec bank
MONTREAL - A man who surrendered to police after a hostage-taking in a Quebec bank was released from hospital on Saturday and is expected to face charges, according to police. Quebec provincial police...
Mar 09, 2019
Ebola treatment centre in Congo is attacked again; 1 dead
KINSHASA, Congo - Heavily armed assailants again attacked an Ebola treatment centre in the heart of eastern Congo’s deadly outbreak on Saturday, with one police officer killed and health workers...
Mar 09, 2019
Quebec's major police forces working under cloud of suspicion after suspensions, leaks
MONTREAL - The past two years have not been easy for Quebec’s three major police forces, whose officers have been working in a climate of suspicion, scandal and now an allegation of criminal wro...
Mar 09, 2019
India returns key diplomat to Pakistan as tensions ease
NEW DELHI - India said Saturday that it was returning a key diplomat to Pakistan’s capital amid an easing of tensions between the nuclear neighbours, but also demanded that its archrival take co...
Mar 09, 2019