Beyond Local

TORONTO — “Canada’s Got Talent” is increasing its top prize to $1 million.

From St. Albert to Okotoks, ten gravity-powered soapbox races are scheduled from May until September.

TORONTO — Elliot Page is set to speak in Toronto following the release of his memoir "Pageboy" next month.

Spices are awesome: they add flavour to food, but can help reduce inflammation in the body too.

BALTIMORE (AP) — A passenger walks up to an airport security checkpoint, slips an ID card into a slot and looks into a camera atop a small screen.

EDMONTON — The Alberta NDP is promising $1.87 billion for several infrastructure projects in the provincial capital if it wins the May 29 election.

EDMONTON — They're affixed to old buildings where someone important used to live. Or they're mounted on a rock overlooking somewhere where something once happened.

FREDERICTON — Princess Louise, the mare that was once the mascot of the 8th Canadian Hussars, never met the calvary regiment's horse-loving colonel-in-chief.

CALGARY — United Conservative Leader Danielle Smith says a candidate who compared transgender students in schools to feces in food would have "a lot of work to do" to find her way into the party's caucus.

CALGARY — The WestJet Group averted a strike after reaching a last-minute deal with the airline's pilots early Friday, but not before cancelling hundreds of flights and upending the long weekend plans of thousands of passengers.