LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — The U.S. government and Zambia signed a health financing deal on Thursday after agreeing to remove specimen-sharing and patient-data clauses that had stalled the conclusion of the pact. The Zambian government also said that the deal does not contain any clauses linked to the country’s abundant mineral resources, which will be […]

Just because Google and Apple are now calling it Lake America doesn’t mean everyone has to. After President Donald Trump ordered a new name for Lake Ontario, the two U.S. tech giants quickly fell in line, relabeling the body of water on their digital maps. The move sparked a backlash among some users, already unhappy […]

A prominent Alberta separatist has shared an online claim that the provincial NDP used its access to the province’s voter list to request hundreds of thousands mail-in ballots for this month’s referendum. The claim includes an edited video of NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi talking about the party’s access to the list. However, a former chief […]

Canadian Mennonite University says it was hit by a cyberattack that accessed the personal details of employees, as well as past and current students. The Winnipeg-based university says the compromised data includes social insurance numbers, addresses, earnings, birth dates and more.  It says the cyberattackers were able to access sensitive employee information going back to […]

Now that September has passed, the new visitor centre at the Drayton Valley Museum has also wound up for the season. As this was the first year the visitor centre was in place, Sandra Blades, the chair of the Drayton Valley Historical Society, and Ryan Fynn, the chair of the Drayton Valley Hospitality and Tourism […]

The Town of Witless Bay is calling attention to what it calls the growing gap between municipal administrative responsibilities and the capacity to meet them and is taking the issue to Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador (MNL) for support.   Witless Bay council approved a resolution supporting ‘sustainable municipal administrative capacity’ for consideration by MNL at its […]

It was Friday the 13th when Andrea Johnson heard the news from a friend over a muffled telephone receiver from the county jail in Cascade, Idaho. After 16 months behind bars, Johnson had been granted parole. “I was anxious, but I was hopeful,” Johnson, 46, said. “I was excited. Why wouldn’t they let me out?” […]

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Wednesday brushed off a court battle launched by the Opposition NDP over her government’s changes to voter list rules. Smith told reporters in Edmonton that the new restrictions were called for by elections officials earlier this year after a major data breach involving a separatist group and the pro-Independence Republican […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request by a conservative group to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with artificial intelligence-generated voices, before November’s midterm elections. Federal law currently bans most robocalls to cellphones unless the caller gets consent beforehand. The petition calls for a waiver that would allow political […]

After public comment at a nearly seven-hour Livingston City Commission meeting Monday night on whether a polarizing film could continue shooting in city limits, vice chair James Willich rifled through his notebook. “24 pages of notes,” he muttered. “That’s a new record!” By the end of the night, commissioners voted unanimously to allow the Daily […]

Edmonton mother Salomy Abusalim is running out of excuses to give her son when he asks why his dad is still in Gaza. “This is killing me as a mom. I can’t keep going on, lying to him,” said Abusalim, whose husband has been trapped in Gaza due to bureaucratic difficulties. “My husband was starving, […]

BERLIN (AP) — A former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service who is charged with passing state secrets to a foreign intelligence service was ordered held in pretrial detention after a judge issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday. August Hanning, 80, who is “strongly suspected of treasonous espionage, spying out state secrets, attempted treason, and […]