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Northern highways benefit from this year’s provincial paving work
Pavement sealing work is underway in the province and it includes hundreds of kilometres of road in northern Saskatchewan.On Thursday, the Ministry of Highways said about $25 million of the $776 milli...
Jun 22, 2023
Lives remembered: A list of the 16 seniors killed in Manitoba bus crash
DAUPHIN, Man. - RCMP have released the names of 16 seniors who died following a fiery bus crash in western Manitoba on June 15. The bus had been taking a group from Dauphin and the surrounding area on...
Jun 22, 2023
Group promoting plant-based eating wants a new name for Macon Bacon baseball team
MACON, Ga. (AP) - A doctors' group that promotes plant-based eating and animal rights is makin' a fuss over the Macon Bacon baseball team. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has sent a ...
Jun 22, 2023
Winter cold snap in B.C. cut 2023 grape crop by up to 56 per cent: growers
KELOWNA, B.C. - Wine growers in British Columbia are calculating their losses from a bitter cold snap in the province last winter that has devastated vineyards. Industry representatives are at a Kelow...
Jun 22, 2023
House Republicans push off Biden impeachment move for now as hard-right clamors for action
WASHINGTON (AP) - Eager to impeach President Joe Biden, hard-right House Republicans forced a vote Thursday that sent the matter to congressional committees in a clear demonstration of the challenge t...
Jun 22, 2023
Liberal bill requiring Google and Meta to pay for news content passes in Senate
OTTAWA - A federal bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms is set to become law. The Senate has passed th...
Jun 22, 2023
Did initial delays in communication hamper tourist sub search?
BOSTON (AP) - Eight hours. And within them, many unanswered questions. About an hour and a half after it dipped below the North Atlantic, a submersible on an expedition to view the wreckage of the Tit...
Jun 22, 2023
Past deep sea rescues show the challenges of saving those on board
BOSTON (AP) - The desperate search for a submersible that disappeared while taking five people to view the Titanic wreckage has drawn attention to other deep-sea rescues. Those rescue efforts - from a...
Jun 22, 2023
WHL commissioner won’t return after 2023/2024 season
Ron Robison will not return as Western Hockey League (WHL) commissioner following the 2023/2024 season.That season will be Robison's 24th at the helm of the WHL.Born in Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Robi...
Jun 22, 2023
The search for the owner of a Canadian Indigenous jacket in the U.K. continues
How did a 19th-century Indigenous jacket from western Canada end up at a shop in South Yorkshire, England?That shop is still looking for the answer, more than eight months after it was found, and they...
Jun 22, 2023