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Hospital Home Lottery is Back!
St. Paul's, Saskatoon City and Royal University Hospital Foundations officially launched the Fall 2024 Hospital Home Lottery. SEE VIDEOS BELOWEscape to modern industrial elegance. This is a home where...
Aug 22, 2024
US government indicts Guatemalan national on smuggling charges over deaths of 53 migrants in trailer
U.S. authorities on Thursday announced the indictment of a Guatemalan national who they say helped coordinate a human smuggling effort that ended with 53 migrants dead in a sweltering tractor-trailer ...
Aug 22, 2024
Youth charged after seven guns, ammo, electronics stolen from home near La Ronge
Four youth from the La Ronge area have been charged after home in the community was broken into and multiple weapons and electronics were taken several days ago. RCMP were told of the break-in at abou...
Aug 22, 2024
Missouri Supreme Court blocks agreement that would have halted execution
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) - The Missouri Supreme Court has blocked an agreement that would have spared the life of death row inmate Marcellus Williams and instead ordered a hearing to proceed on Williams' inn...
Aug 22, 2024
Rail work stoppage shuts down some Ontario, Quebec commuter rail lines
TORONTO - Bewildered commuters were turned away from shuttered rail lines on Thursday as an unprecedented railway lockout upset travel plans for more than 30,000 daily riders in some of Canada's large...
Aug 22, 2024
The latest developments in the lockout at Canada's two biggest railways
In the culmination of months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. locked out 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers after the ...
Aug 22, 2024
Zelenskyy visits border area for the first time since Ukrainian forces entered Russia's Kursk region
President Voldymyr Zelenskyy toured the northeastern Ukrainian region of Sumy on Thursday in his first visit to the border area since his forces entered Russian territory more than two weeks ago. Duri...
Aug 22, 2024
Gilma becomes a powerful Category 3 hurricane and is forecast to strengthen as it stays at sea
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Gilma strengthened into a powerful Category 3 hurricane Thursday in the eastern Pacific Ocean and was forecast to remain a powerful hurricane for the next couple of days while stayi...
Aug 22, 2024
In the news today: Lockout could derail Canadian supply chains and disrupt commuters
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Rail shutdown begins as workers locked out In a first for Canada, freight traffic on its two largest railways ...
Aug 22, 2024
Japanese Canadian paper, pillar for community during war, saved from digital oblivion
VANCOUVER - More than eighty years ago, Japanese Canadians came together to sustain The New Canadian, the only newspaper specifically for the community that was allowed to be published through the Sec...
Aug 22, 2024