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Tri-community leaders concerned with lack of consultation about northern lockdown
Tri-community leaders believe there was a lack of consultation when the provincial government decided to lockdown northern Saskatchewan last week. Lac La Ronge Indian Band Chief Tammy Cook-Searson sai...
Apr 27, 2020 This checkpoint began Monday near Green Lake. (Northern Village of Green Lake/Facebook)

Parents urged to keep tabs on kids’ Internet interactions to stop online predators
Online predatory crimes against children have gone up significantly over the past few years.Police in Saskatchewan are noticing that while it's not spiking in this province, it has gone up as children...
Apr 27, 2020 (CJME News Staff)

Critical milestone reached at Project Falcon diamond site
A major milestone has been reached at the massive diamond exploration project at Fort la Corne east of Prince Albert.Star Diamond Corporation is confirming the start up of the long-awaited processing ...
Apr 27, 2020 The big Lego set. Last year, mechanical engineer Emma Kirk oversaw the re-assembly of 117,000 components that make up the Bulk Sampling Processing Plant. (Ian Gustafson/paNOW Staff)

Plans underway for so-called salmon cannon to aid return at B.C. landslide: DFO
VANCOUVER - Officials with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans say plans are underway for a pneumatic fish pump, also known as the salmon cannon, to help fish migrate past a&nbs...
Apr 27, 2020

Blackhawks fire team president McDonough in surprising move
CHICAGO - The Chicago Blackhawks fired team president John McDonough on Monday, cutting ties with a key figure in the most successful decade in team history and raising questions about the direction o...
Apr 27, 2020

Duvernay-Tardif joins front-line workers at Quebec long-term care facility
MONTREAL - A Quebec-born Super Bowl champion is making the move from the offensive line to the medical front line. Kansas City Chiefs offensive guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is working at a ...
Apr 27, 2020

Canadian indoor soccer star Ian Bennett flies under the radar back home
A showman and all-star with the Milwaukee Wave, Canadian Ian Bennett is a marquee goal-scorer in the Major Arena Soccer League. Still, the 36-year-old Hamilton native flies under the radar north ...
Apr 27, 2020

Indigenous teacher program in tri-communities begins second intake
After what Program Head Morris Cook called a successful first year, the second intake for the Northern Saskatchewan Indigenous Teacher Education Program has commenced. "In the last couple of weeks, we...
Apr 27, 2020 This building on Far Reserve is the location of the teacher program. (submitted photo)

Maduro taps US fugitive to revamp Venezuela oil industry
MIAMI - President Nicols Maduro on Monday named a powerful ally sanctioned by the U.S. as a drug kingpin, along with a cousin of the late socialist leader Hugo Chvez, to revamp Venezuela's oil industr...
Apr 27, 2020

One death, 12 new COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan's North
All 12 new cases of COVID-19 are in the northern half of the province, including the province's fifth death. The deceased was in their 80s and resided in the Far North region of the province. As of to...
Apr 27, 2020 Saskatchewan's Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab. (Canadian Press)