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Voting, activism replace practice, games in US sports world
WASHINGTON - Just past noon on Election Day, after casting her vote where the NBA's Wizards and NHL's Capitals play, Mary Pittman exited through one of the arena's glass doors. Perched on the 77-year-...
Nov 03, 2020
Canadians gather to watch U.S. election 'cliffhanger' both in-person and virtually
Canadians and Americans living in Canada huddled around TV and computer screens across the country Tuesday night as results of the divisive U.S. presidential election rolled in. Given the COVID-19 pan...
Nov 03, 2020
Georgia Republican who supports QAnon wins US House seat
ATLANTA - Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who expressed racist views and support for QAnon conspiracy theories in a series of online videos, has won a U.S. House seat representing northwest Georgia...
Nov 03, 2020
La Ronge council candidates motivated by town decisions they petitioned
Joe Hordyski is not stranger to municipal politics in La Ronge having sat on council for 22 years with 12 of those being mayor.He was on council from 1991 to 2009 and was elected mayor starting in 199...
Nov 03, 2020
Despite racing in 2020, COVID-19 pandemic dealt Woodbine Entertainment economic blow
TORONTO - The COVID-19 pandemic didn't prevent Woodbine Entertainment from staging harness and thoroughbred races this year but CEO Jim Lawson says it certainly dealt the organization a huge financial...
Nov 03, 2020
Max Ward, who went from bush pilot to international charter carrier, dies at 98
EDMONTON - Max Ward, a Canadian aviation pioneer who went from flying bush planes to creating his own charter airline, has died. Family friend Jacquie Perrin says Ward collapsed yesterday at his home ...
Nov 03, 2020
'Murder' hornet found in Abbotsford, B.C., after nest destroyed in Washington state
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The British Columbia Agriculture Ministry says one so-called murder hornet was discovered near Abbotsford on Monday.The ministry is warning beekeepers and residents to report sighti...
Nov 03, 2020
Touching stories to be shared during Children’s Hospital Radiothon
This year's Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Radiothon Nov. 4-5 is going to mean an awful lot to children across the province like Torrie Schaffer.Schaffer, now 13, got sick on the Easter long weekend...
Nov 03, 2020
Second-degree murder charges laid in Black Lake shooting
Police have laid charges after a homicide in Black Lake. According to an RCMP news release, on Nov. 1 shortly after 8 a.m., Black Lake RCMP received a report of a male being shot outside of a residenc...
Nov 03, 2020
Khalil seeking to reduce crime, Delaney wants more tri-community collaboration
There are three main issues Amro Khalil would like to address if elected to Air Ronge council. "For crime, during my door-to-door campaigning, that was the number one issue I heard about," he said. "S...
Nov 03, 2020