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BRSD celebrates successes to start the new year

Para/unified race participants. (Photo submitted)
The Battle River School Division (BRSD) has gotten off to an “extraordinary…
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  • This Dec.14, 2018, handout image shows the asteroid Bennu in a composite of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s PolyCam imager from a distance of 24 kilometres. Seven years after it blasted into space to snag a sample of the asteroid, a spacecraft is set to deliver its rare cargo on Sunday – and Canada is getting a piece of the interstellar bounty. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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          A police car with flashing lights is shown in Philadelphia on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. A man has been killed after an altercation with police officers in northern Alberta. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Matt Rourke

          Man killed in Fort McMurray in altercation with police after he shot a woman
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          A Saudi Arabian Airlines plane Flight SV872 from Jeddah is shown at an isolated area at Manila’s International Airport in Pasay, south of Manila, Philippines on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. Saudia, formerly known as Saudi Arabian Airlines, is resuming flights to Toronto in December, after five years of no direct connections with Canada since a 2018 spat over the Liberals’ loud condemnation of the kingdom’s human-rights record. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Aaron Favila

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          Canadian pot companies cheer as Senate committee advances cannabis finance reforms

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          A Sunwing aircraft is parked at Montreal Trudeau airport in Montreal on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.WestJet says it aims to wind down Sunwing Airlines and integrate the low-cost carrier into its mainline business by October of next year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

          Sunwing Airlines to fold into WestJet within a year
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          The RCMP logo is seen in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. The RCMP says it has introduced mandatory security awareness training for employees, one of several changes prompted by the 2019 arrest of a senior civilian member for allegedly leaking classified information. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

          Security awareness training now mandatory for RCMP after 2019 arrest of member
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          Communities are gathering across Canada today to recognize the third annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Students carry a ceremonial cloth with the names of children who died in residential schools and were identified in the National Student Memorial Register, during Gidinawendimin – We Are All Related, an event for youth featuring Residential School Survivors, Knowledge Keepers, and Indigenous music and culture, part of Truth and Reconciliation Week, in Ottawa, on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

          Canada marks National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
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          The headquarters of Bausch Health Solutions, formerly known as Valeant Inc., is seen Wednesday, February 20, 2019 in Laval, Quebec. An Ontario Superior Court judge is giving the go-ahead to a class action against Bausch Health Companies Inc. that alleges false advertising for some of the pharmaceutical firm's cold remedies. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

          Judge greenlights class action against Bausch Health on Cold-FX products
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          Chief of the defence staff Gen. Wayne Eyre waits to appear before the Standing Commitee on National Defence in Ottawa on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. The country's top soldier and outside experts agree cutting almost $1 billion from the Department of National Defence budget will affect the Armed Forces' capabilities. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

          Defence minister insists $1B spending reduction is not a budget cut
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          Politicians and others who support policies that would require parental permission for teachers to use a student’s preferred pronouns at school say they are about including parents in the lives of their children. Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah, the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity. Owusu-Akyeeah, in her role as a commissioner for the Ottawa People’s Commission on the Convoy Occupation, speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

          Debate over pronouns pits parental rights against children’s, experts say

          Some of the largest school boards across Canada will begin the new school year without formal policies on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom, despite concerns about how the technology will impact learning and academic integrity. Grade 3 teacher Catherine Rioux-Tache leads her students into class at Sainte-Cecile elementary school on their first day back to school in Montreal, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

          School boards grappling with AI use in classroom, but formal policies still elusive

          <div>Beijing and Ottawa are in talks over how to increase flights between Canada and China, following an American deal in June. A passenger checks her phone as an Air China passenger jet taxis past at the Beijing Capital International airport in Beijing, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Ng Han Guan</div>

          China wants more Canada flights after COVID-19 turbulence, despite tour-group ban

          <div>Transportation authorities in the Northwest Territories say the highway out of a community near the Alberta boundary that's being evacuated due to wildfires has now closed. The Northwest Territories provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa on June 30, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld</div>

          City of Yellowknife declares state of local emergency due to wildfires

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          Overall view of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Yaroslav Hunka watches and applauds at far right, centre. It later emerged that Hunka had fought in Ukraine during the Second World War with the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, a volunteer unit created by the Nazis to help fight the Soviet Union. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Patrick Doyle

          Head of Canadian Ukrainian group defends man who fought for unit created by Nazis

          The president of the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada is defending a…

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          Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault speaks at an event on the Ottawa river, Friday, September 29, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

          Clean electricity regs can be tweaked, but no special deal for Alberta: Guilbeault

          There will be no special treatment for Alberta when it comes to…

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                Canada’s Kiera Van Ryk spikes the ball in her team’s bronze medal victory over Cuba in the the 2023 NORCECA Senior Women’s Volleyball Continental Championship in Quebec City in a Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023, handout photo. Canada’s women’s volleyball team scored a 3-0 (25-22, 25-22, 25-17) win over Mexico on Saturday, but fell short in its bid to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Norceca, Mathieu Belanger

                Canadian women’s volleyball team beats Mexico but fails to clinch Olympic spot

                Only the top 2 teams in the pool will qualify

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                Around 150 racers took part in a five-day, 1,800-kilometre journey through Alberta and Saskatchewan. (Miles of Mayhem Facebook photo)

                Group of Stettler racers take part in Canadian summer drag, drive event

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                  • Four-time Olympian, nine-time World Cup medallist Chris Spring retires from bobsled
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                          Two demonstrators pick up signs outside the Paramount Pictures Studio in Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Negotiations between striking screenwriters and Hollywood studios have resumed and will continue Thursday, the latest attempt to bring an end to pickets that have brought film and television productions to a halt. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

                          Writers’ union reaches tentative deal with Hollywood studios to end historic strike

                          The union representing screenwriters reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios to…

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                          This image released by Lionsgate shows Dolph Lundgren, from left, Randy Couture, Curtis Jackson, Levy Tran and Jacob Scipio in a scene from “The Expend4bles.” (Lionsgate via AP)

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                              Quebecor headquarters is seen in Montreal on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Quebecor Inc. says its purchase of Freedom Mobile drove a big boost in earnings last quarter. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

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