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On Aug. 21, Grande Prairie Rural RCMP responded to a collision between a stolen vehicle and a civilian vehicle at a rural location East of Grande Prairie.  Following the collision, an altercation between the suspects and the victim occurred where the suspects produced a knife and subsequently stole the victims vehicle.  The stolen vehicle was located a short time later in the City of Grande Prairie and 3 suspects were observed fleeing the scene.  A brief foot chase resulted in the arrest of 2 suspects.

This year, municipal candidates in Calgary and Edmonton face a decision they've never had to make: whether to join a political party.

But the choice represents more than the embrace or rejection of a new political system. It's a decision that will affect the flow of money into their campaigns.

Manitoba Agriculture warns of poor water quality risk for livestock during dry summer

Manitoba livestock producers are being advised to closely monitor water quality for their animals as dry summer conditions can concentrate harmful substances in watering sources.

The farmland market in Saskatchewan may be tilting toward the buyer.

It’s not there yet because sellers still have the upper hand, but real estate agents in the province say more land may soon come up for sale, thus tipping the scales in favour of buyers.

As of August 2025, 265 farmland properties were posted on the MLS system in Saskatchewan. That’s down drastically from 2020, when the number of farms for sale was close to 500.

Josiah Queen is a new name in CCM that many are getting to know quickly, and now he's released a full-length album called Mt. Zion. 

At just 22 years old, Queen was recently nominated for the GMA Dove Award for Artist of the Year. His previous album, Prodigal, alongside the title track, is what put the singer on the map. 

This new album, released Aug. 22, 2025, has 12 singles. Three songs have features, including Benjamin William Hastings, Gable Price, and Brandon Lake. 

Voice of the Martyrs Korea announced that it is adding a fifth daily 30-minute broadcast to North Korea.

That move comes as most government-sponsored broadcasts into the country by the United States and South Korea have been discontinued. Voice of the Martyrs Korea says that the new broadcast will consist of the sermons of early Korean Christians and an uninterrupted reading of the Bible.

Details about the new broadcast’s time, radio frequency, and launch date are being withheld for security reasons.

Orchestrated by the International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED), the Milan Congress of 1880 caused massive damage to the global Deaf community.

Instead of using the sign language that was most natural to them, Deaf children were forced to learn using oral methods.

“Oral education is the idea of using lip reading and speech therapy rather than sign language,” DOOR International’s Rob Myers explains,

The past few years of comedian John Crist's life have been a rollercoaster — from a stint in rehab to his recent engagement.

"The best thing that’s ever happened to me in my entire life by far, I love you so much @lyfeoflyd," says Crist on social media. 

Crist's fiancée, Lydia Fielder, is a co-anchor for Nashville TV station WSMV-TV.

The Canada Revenue Agency has offered contract extensions to around 850 call centre employees as their union sounds the alarm over staffing levels. 

CRA spokesperson Etienne Biram says the workers, whose contracts were set to expire in September, were contacted about the decision last week.

The federal union representing workers at the tax agency recently launched an online campaign denouncing staffing cuts. 

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is set to meet with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington this week after Ottawa announced it would be lifting some retaliatory tariffs.

LeBlanc's office said he will travel to the United States capital on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last Friday that Canada will drop some retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products to match American tariff exemptions for goods covered under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement on trade, called CUSMA. .