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Over half of Conservative members have voted for new leader one week before deadline
OTTAWA - More than half of Conservative party members have returned their leadership ballots with one week left before the deadline on Sept. 6. The party says just over 350,000 ballots have been recei...
Aug 30, 2022
Local lacrosse star going for gold in U16 World Championships
A local lacrosse player has been named to Team Canada for the upcoming U16 IIJL World Championships this coming weekend. Prince Albert's Mason Crain was selected to don the maple leaf for the tourname...
Aug 30, 2022
Local Elks Lodge celebrates 100 years in P.A.
A Prince Albert organization marked 100 years in the community with a big event this past weekend. The Prince Albert Elks Lodge #58 marked its centennial throughout the month of August, and while they...
Aug 30, 2022
Ottawa invokes pipeline treaty, infant death in B.C.: In The News for Aug. 30
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 Aug. 30 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Aug 30, 2022
Polls say question in Quebec election is not who will win, but who will come second
MONTREAL - With the Coalition Avenir Qubec party dominating the polls at the start of the provincial election campaign, the most pressing question of the race may not be who wins, but who comes in sec...
Aug 30, 2022
Pete the peacock remains on the lam about two months after escape from N.B. garden
FREDERICTON - Pete the peacock flew the coop on his first night in Kingsbrae Garden, on the southern shores of New Brunswick. That was about two months ago - and it's been a wild goose chase ever sinc...
Aug 30, 2022
Quebec election: CAQ heads into territory strongly contested by upstart Conservatives
QUEBEC - Coalition Avenir Qubec Leader Franois Legault is holding a news conference this morning in a riding strongly contested by the upstart Conservative Party of Quebec. Beauce-Sud, south of Quebec...
Aug 30, 2022
AP Was There: Diana's final hours, on a tragic Paris night
PARIS (AP) - An elegant dinner at the Ritz in Paris. A post-midnight drive past the city's floodlit treasures. And then, tragedy. The story of Princess Diana's death at age 36 in that catastrophic cra...
Aug 30, 2022
Iran closes border to Iraq, flights stop amid violent unrest
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iran closed its land borders to Iraq as flights to the country halted Tuesday amid violence in Baghdad following an influential Shiite cleric's announcement he would resign from politic...
Aug 30, 2022
Judge hits 50th, Ohtani also goes deep as Angels edge Yanks
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Aaron Judge hit his 50th home run of the season but Shohei Ohtani also went deep during their MVP showdown, and the Los Angeles Angels held off the slumping New York Yankees 4-3...
Aug 29, 2022
