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Virtual Napatak Ramble planned for end of June
Hundreds of music lovers attend the Napatak Ramble at Rabbit Creek annually, but this year Founder Colin Jolly is asking fans to join online using Facebook. The main event was cancelled due to coronav...
Jun 15, 2020
Clearwater River Dene Nation Chief says community is better informed to handle spike in COVID-19 cases
Clearwater River Dene Nation is seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases but the chief is confident the community can handle it. Chief Teddy Clark told meadowlakeNOW the community now has a total of 15 active...
Jun 15, 2020
AP Exclusive: DOJ sets new dates to begin federal executions
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has set new dates to begin executing federal death-row inmates following a months-long legal battle over the plan to resume the executions for the first time since ...
Jun 15, 2020
La Ronge RCMP lay charges in fatal hit-and-run
La Ronge RCMP have laid charges in a fatal pedestrian hit-and-run incident. That's according to an RCMP media release, which states on June 14 shortly after midnight, officers were dispatched to the r...
Jun 15, 2020
'It's frustrating': Trump advertising blast has limits
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's campaign manager warned in late spring that his juggernaut political operation - the "Death Star," he called it - was about to start "pressing FIRE" for the first...
Jun 15, 2020
Individual ceremonies for Churchill Community High School graduates
It was on a decorated trailer hitched to the back of a truck, but Churchill Community High School graduate Paige Lee had her final moments as a student in style."It went good. I liked it," she said of...
Jun 15, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:22 p.m. on June 15, 2020: There are 99,091 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 54,054 confirmed (inclu...
Jun 15, 2020
Judge concerned over time it's taking to hear Meng Wanzhou's extradition case
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court judge in Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's extradition case says she's concerned by the length of the proceedings. During a case management conference on Mon...
Jun 15, 2020
A look at some highlights of the Saskatchewan budget
REGINA - Premier Scott Moe's Saskatchewan Party government presented its 2020-21 budget built around the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some of the highlights: - A $2.4-billion deficit with...
Jun 15, 2020
Wayne Embry says if given the choice to play amid racial unrest, he would
TORONTO - Wayne Embry remembers the shock and sorrow that swept through the Boston Celtics when Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated hours before Game 1 of the 1968 Eastern Division fina...
Jun 15, 2020