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Filmmaker Michael Moore will attend Vancouver film fest to mark "Roger and Me"
VANCOUVER - Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is attending the Vancouver International Film Festival next month to take part in its Creator Talk event. The festival says the Oscar and...
Sep 11, 2019
'Friends of Science' thanks Elections Canada for warning on climate-change talk
OTTAWA - A Calgary organization that argues climate change is nothing close to a global emergency says Elections Canada is right to keep a close eye on campaign-period communications from th...
Sep 11, 2019 (file photo/CKOM News Staff)
Use of fake social media bots in Alberta election coming in federal vote: experts
EDMONTON - A federal report confirming the use of false social media posts to try to manipulate last spring's Alberta election points to dangers for the upcoming federal vote, political scie...
Sep 11, 2019 The Canadian Press
Tories turn to Bryan Adams' songwriter for election campaign theme
TORONTO - The Conservatives have turned to Bryan Adams' longtime hitmaker Jim Vallance to pen their campaign song.The guitar-driven tune is packed with Vallance's trademarked pop-rock zeal, as a choru...
Sep 11, 2019 The Canadian Press
History Channel drops out of planned Dillinger documentary
INDIANAPOLIS - The History Channel has dropped out of a planned documentary on John Dillinger that would have included the proposed exhumation of the 1930s gangster's Indianapolis gravesite. A&E N...
Sep 11, 2019
Alberta investigating after medical examiner uses truck trailer for body storage
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is investigating after video surfaced showing a medical examiner's office using a truck trailer to store dead bodies and one corpse being roughly haule...
Sep 11, 2019
Drake Batherson hoping to earn full-time role with Ottawa Senators
BELLEVILLE, Ont. - After spending last season in the American Hockey League, Drake Batherson feels he's ready to make the jump to the Ottawa Senators. The 21-year-old forward hopes he can convinc...
Sep 11, 2019
Attorneys: OxyContin maker agrees to tentative settlement
HARTFORD, Conn. - Attorneys for some 2,000 local governments say they have agreed to a tentative settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over the toll of the nation's opioid crisis. Attorney Pau...
Sep 11, 2019
The Force is with him: Alberta boy gets 'Star Wars' model of his heart
EDMONTON - The Force is with this young transplant patient. Mason Thomas received a new heart at Edmonton's University of Alberta Hospital when he was six. In order to help the now eight-yea...
Sep 11, 2019
Man guilty of killing 2 police officers faces death penalty
KISSIMMEE, Fla. - A Florida man has been convicted of fatally shooting two police officers and could be sentenced to death. The Orlando Sentinel reports that 47-year-old Everett Glenn Miller guilty wa...
Sep 11, 2019
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