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Twin Rivers Curling Club announce sponsorship to celebrate 10th anniversary
North Battleford's Twin Rivers Curling Club is partnering with the Battlefords Hotels Association in celebration of the club's 10th anniversary in the community. "This money will help us promote our e...
Nov 03, 2022

Fiscal update, trucker testimony at Emergencies Act inquiry : In The News for Nov. 3
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Nov. 3 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Nov 03, 2022

Fall mini-budget aims to help Canada compete with U.S. clean energy investments
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is to table her mid-year budget update in the House of Commons today focused heavily on driving investment to Canada's clean energy industries in response t...
Nov 03, 2022

Fertilizer greenhouse gas cuts may take longer than Ottawa wants, farm groups say
The goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizer use by 30 per cent kicked up more dust than a tractor on a grid road when it was first announced by the federal Liberal government last su...
Nov 03, 2022

Canadian War Museum oral history project examines war's aftermath
HALIFAX - The pride in Blanche Bennett's voice was evident as she vividly recounted the day 80 years ago when she volunteered to serve in the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Bennett, who turns 100 on Nov...
Nov 03, 2022

Republican wave could prove emboldening for left-leaning Democrats on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON - Their arrival atop a cresting "blue wave" of Democrats in 2018, two years into the caustic presidency of Donald Trump, heralded a bold new era of young, diverse and left-leaning political...
Nov 03, 2022

Pristine alpine lake contaminated by dust from mountaintop coal mines, study shows
New Alberta government research has found windblown dust from mountaintop removal coal mines has polluted a pristine alpine lake to the point where its waters are as contaminated as lakes downwind fro...
Nov 03, 2022

Canadian recalls 'pandemonium' in South Korean district where 150 died in stampede
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - A Canadian in Seoul says he's had trouble sleeping since witnessing tens of thousands of people crowding into side streets and alleys in the city's nightclub district on Sa...
Nov 03, 2022

Convoy leaders, Tamara Lich, set to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry
OTTAWA - Three organizers of the "Freedom Convoy" protests in Ottawa are to appear today at the public inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act. Benjamin Dichter, James Bauder ...
Nov 03, 2022

Powerball prize up to $1.5 billion, 3rd-largest ever in US
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The bad news is that no one won Wednesday night's huge $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot. The good news is that means the prize has grown even larger to $1.5 billion ahead of the ...
Nov 03, 2022