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Rowan Barrett: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's MVP win will help basketball in Canada
There's no telling what Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's NBA MVP Award will do for basketball in Canada. Gilgeous-Alexander was named the league's most valuable player on Wednesday, after the Oklahoma City T...
May 21, 2025
CP NewsAlert: Canada's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander named NBA MVP
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been named the NBA's most valuable player. The 26-year-old from Hamilton is the second Canadian to receive the award, following Steve Nash's win...
May 21, 2025
'Right now the community is living in fear': JSCN rolls out plan to address crime and drug crisis
James Smith Cree Nation (JSCN) is taking a proactive approach to addressing crime and what leaders are calling an escalating drug crisis.Following a vote held during a community meeting Tuesday night,...
May 21, 2025
Too cute to help? Conservation officers say leave baby wildlife alone
That baby deer lying quietly in the grass might seem lost, but according to Saskatchewan conservation officers, it's right where it's supposed to be-and no, they don't need a ride.As warmer weather dr...
May 21, 2025
Most books pulled from Naval Academy library are back on the shelves in latest DEI turn
WASHINGTON (AP) - All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its library because they dealt with anti-racism and gender issues are back on the shelves after the new...
May 21, 2025
Canada's Aphrodite Deng learns from Nelly Korda at junior golf event
Aphrodite Deng got to live out the dream of every competitive golfer, playing two rounds with the best in the world and excelling on the course, and she's just 15 years old. Deng played alongside Nell...
May 21, 2025
Save-On-Foods, Pattison Food Group support local food banks
What began as a three-day campaign back in 2018 is now a well-established week-long initiative focused on feeding families in need across Western Canada. Starting Thursday, grocery shoppers can suppor...
May 21, 2025
Bipartisan Senate resolution introduced to recognize Canada-U.S. partnership
WASHINGTON - A resolution with bipartisan support was introduced in the United States Senate today to recognize the U.S.-Canada partnership, a relationship badly strained by President Donald Trump's t...
May 21, 2025
Fire at historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers' strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memph...
May 21, 2025
One injured in La Ronge shooting
La Ronge RCMP are investigating a shooting on Riese Drive. A spokesperson explained officers were alerted to the incident at about 3 a.m. on Wednesday. An investigation determined a firearm was discha...
May 21, 2025