The Canadian PressDean Bennett EDMONTON–Premier Rachel Notley is ordering a mandatory cut to oil production to deal with a price crisis she says threatens to gut Alberta’s bedrock industry. Notley announced the province will impose across-the-board cuts amounting to 8.7 percent of output to reduce a growing glut of oil […]
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The Canadian PressMichelle McQuigge TORONTO–The Ontario government is about to start facing co-ordinated opposition from two of the country’s largest unions bent on stopping what they describe as Premier Doug Ford’s “destructive agenda.” The heads of both Unifor and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union announced their alliance in the […]
The Canadian PressSidhartha Banerjee LONGUEUIL, Que.–Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques blasted through the skies over Kazakhstan early today in what appeared to be a seamless launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket bound for the International Space Station. The 48-year-old doctor and astronaut lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Anne McClain […]
It will be cloudy tonight, with an overnight low of minus-10 C (14 F) and west-southwest winds gusting up to 13 km/h. Tomorrow also will be cloudy, with a high of minus-four (25) and low again around minus-10 (14). Look for southwest winds gusting up to 15 km/h. Light snow […]
From the OPP Last Tuesday around 1:45 p.m., members of the Dryden OPP conducted a stop for Highway Traffic Act offences on Highway 17 in Eton Township (west of Dryden). As a result, police seized two boxes of ammunition and a large quantity of drugs with a street value estimated […]
Staff The new town council will be sworn into office this evening, just as other district officials elected in the Oct. 22 municipal election will be. Mayor-elect June Caul will join re-elected councillor Wendy Brunetta, as well as newly-elected Michael Behan, Andrew Hallikas, Douglas Judson, John McTaggart, and Rick Wiedenhoeft, […]
By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press Skip the costly electronic games and flashy digital gizmos. Pediatricians say the best toys for tots are old-fashioned hands-on playthings that young children can enjoy with parents things like blocks, puzzles even throwaway cardboard boxes that spark imagination and creativity. “A cardboard box can […]
By Mike Corder The Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch motivational speaker Emile Ratelband may feel like a 49-year-old but according to Dutch law he is still 69. A Dutch court on Monday rejected Ratelband’s request to shave 20 years off his age in a case that drew worldwide […]
By Paul Wiseman The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The dinner table diplomacy that Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping of China conducted over the weekend produced something as vague as it was valuable: an agreement to keep talking. Forged over grilled sirloin at the Group of 20 summit Saturday in […]
The Canadian PressCassandra Szklarski TORONTO–Canadian kids continue to rank low in a global report on physical activity. The most recent release from the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance finds children in Slovenia and Japan to be the most active among 49 countries studied. Canada scored a ‘D+’ in categories that […]
The Associated Press BANGKOK–A man was killed by a wild elephant after his speeding car hit the animal near a national park in northeastern Thailand, police said today. Police Lt. Col. Kemchat Paedkaew said the accident occurred at dusk yesterday on a small road that has signs telling drivers to […]
Staff For the second-straight year, Team U.S.A. shone the brightest as it downed Team Canada 8-6 in the SIJHL’s annual all-star game last night at the Ice For Kids Arena here. The U.S. opened the scoring in the “Border Battle” about midway through the first period when Jaedin Ness (Fort […]
