Category Archives: Post to Social
Hemp industry looks to Ottawa for regulation changes
OTTAWA -- Health food and hemp industry groups want Ottawa to change the regulations for C-B-D to treat the cannabinoid as a natural health product rather than a drug.The Canadian Health Food Associat...
May 17, 2019 Photo credit to Agriculture Canada
12 arrested in downtown Lethbridge 'targeted enforcement project'
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Police officers in Lethbridge have arrested one dozen people after conducting what they call a 'targeted enforcement project' in downtown Lethbridge. On May 16, 2019, members of the D...
May 17, 2019 Lethbridge Police
LPS seeking the public’s help to find missing high-risk female youth
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police are looking for the public's help to locate a missing 14-year-old high risk female. Ashley Marburg was reported missing on May 14, and she was reported to be in the ...
May 17, 2019
Calgary company awarded tender for Coaldale RCMP Detachment building construction
COALDALE, AB - The Town of Coaldale has announced that the tender for the construction of the Coaldale RCMP Detachment has been awarded. The tender for the much-anticipated construction project was aw...
May 17, 2019 Photo Credit: Town of Coaldale
Deal reached between Canada and the US to drop steel and aluminum tariffs
HAMILTON, ON - Canada's year-long standoff with the Trump administration over punitive U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs is finally over, removing a key hurdle in efforts to ratify the new North America...
May 17, 2019 Photo Credit: The Canadian Press
Killer of missing Alberta seniors loses appeal of manslaughter convictions
EDMONTON - An appeal from the killer of two Edmonton-area seniors has been dismissed. Travis Vader asked the Alberta Court of Appeal for a new trial or for his manslaughter charges to be stayed. Vader...
May 17, 2019 Lauren Krugel - The Canadian Press
Former polygamous leader guilty in child bride case
CRANBROOK, B.C. - A former leader in a fundamentalist Christian sect that practises polygamy in Bountiful, B.C., has been found guilty of removing an underage girl from Canada to be married in the Uni...
May 17, 2019 The Canadian Press
Alberta RCMP participating in Canada Road Safety Week during Victoria Day long weekend
EDMONTON, AB - The Victoria Day long weekend typically marks the start of the road trip season for many Albertans. With that in mind, the RCMP want to remind all road users, drivers, riders, passenger...
May 17, 2019 Photo Credit: RCMP
Canada 'encouraged' in tariff war with U.S. on metals but no solution in sight
OTTAWA - President Donald Trump's decision today to delay auto tariffs on Japan and Europe is generating fresh hope that there might be an end in sight to his punitive levies on Canadian steel and alu...
May 17, 2019
Fire bans in effect in parts of northern Alberta
Campfires, unauthorized burning and off-highway vehicles (OHV) are banned on public lands throughout most of northern Alberta because of wildfire concerns. The fire and OHV ban extends from Lac La Bic...
May 17, 2019