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St. Paddy’s Day two step

Cara McWilliams, left, and Kennedy McGill appear to hover in mid-air as they perform with the Lethbridge Irish Dance Academy as part of St. Patrick’s Day festivities Wednesday at the Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization. Herald photo by Ian Martens

Senior Mountie backs long-gun registry as Tory minister calls it wasteful

Thursday, 18 March 2010
OTTAWA - The No. 2 Mountie came out in favour of the embattled federal gun registry Thursday - even as his political boss affirmed the government's desire to abolish it.

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Victim a ‘wonderful person’

The funeral for “a truly wonderful person, a hard and dedicated worker and great family man” with roots in Fort Macleod, Coalhurst and Taber, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Lethbridge Coast Hotel and Conference Centre. The family has arranged visitation times for Kurtis Dean Reynolds, 33, from 7-9 p.m. Monday at Martin Bros. Riverview Chapel. Those unable to attend the visitation Monday can visit the family noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday prior to the funeral. Reynolds was killed Saturday at a Revelstoke snowmobile Big Iron Shoot-Out while watching the event with his friend and busin

Comets ready for provincials

Wednesday, 17 March 2010
They’re a hard bunch to please, that Raymond Comets basketball team. Fresh off their thrilling South Zone championship win over rival Cardston Cougars last Saturday, the Comets head into the Alberta Schools Athletic Association 4A provincials not only as the number-one

Conservationists say demand for caviar pushing beluga, other sturgeon to brink of extinction

Dubai’s Atlantis hotel frees female whale shark whose captivity had been criticized

Facebook feds go undercover: FBI, other agents dipping quietly into social media

McGill launches web program to let people create their own one-stop medical file

Local

People who lost 50 dogs in fire are granted kennel permit

While the matter is closed from the perspective of both the police and an animal rights group, a...

Westside’s wide open space

If things go as planned, the schoolyard for two new westside high schools will be just as busy on...

Security standardization by Alberta Health to affect Commissionaires

Alberta Health Services is opting to standardize security services in the province, ending a...

National

Senior Mountie backs long-gun registry as Tory minister calls it wasteful

OTTAWA - The No. 2 Mountie came out in favour of the embattled federal gun registry Thursday - even...

Police probe Rizzuto links in brazen daytime shooting at Mtl clothing store

MONTREAL - A deadly daytime shooting that paralyzed Old Montreal was possibly linked to a violent...

Senior Mountie backs long-gun registry as Tory minister calls it wasteful

OTTAWA - The No. 2 Mountie came out in favour of the embattled federal gun registry Thursday - even...

World

Congressman: US terror suspect called Jihad Jane co-operated in international probe

PHILADELPHIA - A woman accused of trolling the Internet as Jihad Jane and agreeing to marry a...

Amistad sails to Havana; a symbol of the slave trade joins US and Cuba

WASHINGTON - It will be the rarest of sights: a black-hulled, two-masted replica of a...

Holocaust survivor stands by concentration camp memory of Anne Frank challenged by experts

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Holocaust survivor who says she met Anne Frank in a Nazi concentration...

Sports

Porn actress Joslyn James releases sexually graphic messages she says came from Tiger Woods

LOS ANGELES - A former porn actress released sexually graphic text messages Thursday that she says...

McKeever, Forest, Woolstencroft win gold in heavy medal haul at Paralympics

WHISTLER, B.C. - It was a heavy medal day for Canada at the Paralympics Thursday with alpine skier...

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Entertainment

After sweeping Hollywood's awards season, Oscar winner Sandra Bullock plagued by private drama

LOS ANGELES - Sandra Bullock is on a career high. America's Sweetheart and "Miss Congeniality" was...

Music videos are an endangered species on TV but online they're thriving

MuchMusic and MTV may have given up on the music video, making it an endangered species on...

Producer files US$35M lawsuit against Grammy Award-winning singer Lady Gaga

NEW YORK - A songwriter and music producer who claims he helped launch pop star Lady Gaga says she...

Business

Home improvment retailer Lowe's to open its first Saskatchewan store in Regina

TORONTO - Home improvement retailer Lowe's plans to open its first Saskatchewan store in Regina,...

Palm sales slump in third quarter as its new phones struggle for attention; stock hammered

NEW YORK - Palm Inc. reported sales figures Thursday that showed it's having a difficult time...

CRTC says private conventional TV stations booked $116.4 million loss last year

TORONTO - Canada's biggest private television broadcasters made major cuts last year, as they...

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