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Comforting rituals show in media's depiction of inauguration
NEW YORK - After Air Force One took Donald Trump out of Washington, an unusual Inauguration Day quickly felt more traditional - even comforting - for people watching at home. Sure, security ringed the...
Jan 20, 2021
P.A.'s Mays writes tell-all book, but not without ruffling feathers
Throughout the years, Prince Albert Minor Hockey Association (PAMHA) technical director James Mays has been open to talk about whatever was on his mind-on and off the record with local media. But not ...
Jan 20, 2021
Scattered Site reopens with limited services
La Ronge's Scattered Site Outreach Program reopened this week with a reduction in services.That's according to Kikinahk Friendship Centre Executive Director Ron Woytowich, who said clients are not all...
Jan 20, 2021
Lawyer says ex-royal staff will shed light on Meghan letter
LONDON - A lawyer for the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper said Wednesday that the Duchess of Sussex had no reasonable expectation of privacy for a letter she sent to her estranged father after h...
Jan 20, 2021
After a strong start, Calgary Flames get early breather in short NHL season
CALGARY - Just three games into a condensed season, the Calgary Flames are already on a break. A 2-0-1 start for five points out of a possible six is momentum the Flames will try to carry through thei...
Jan 20, 2021
Indigenous services minister says Quebec premier should show 'humanity' to homeless
OTTAWA - Federal Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller is criticizing the Quebec premier's refusal to exempt homeless people from the provincewide curfew. Miller reacted today to the recent death o...
Jan 20, 2021
For a splintered nation, a delicate moment of continuity
When it gazes into the mirror, the United States does not generally see a land of process and procedure. It sees what it has wanted to see since the beginning - a place of action and results and volum...
Jan 20, 2021
Students at VP Kamala Harris's Montreal alma mater say her rise serves as inspiration
MONTREAL - Students at Montreal's Westmount High School spent Wednesday morning watching a former graduate ascend to one of the highest political offices in the world, with Kamala Harris's new post as...
Jan 20, 2021
Trump's pardon largesse a boon for well-connected fraudsters
WASHINGTON - A former congressman who pocketed millions of dollars in bribes from defence contractors. A Republican fundraiser who paid handsome sums to illicitly lobby a presidential administration. ...
Jan 20, 2021
Riders extend Jordan Williams-Lambert’s contract through 2021
The Saskatchewan Roughriders now have their talented trio of receivers from 2018 locked up for 2021.The CFL team announced Wednesday it had signed slotback Jordan Williams-Lambert to a one-year contra...
Jan 20, 2021