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Illinois patient's death may be first in US tied to vaping
CHICAGO - Health officials said Friday that an Illinois patient who contracted a serious lung disease after vaping has died and that they consider it the first death in the United States linked to the...
Aug 23, 2019

B.C. man takes stand at trial, denies killing daughters and attempting suicide
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver Island man testified Wednesday that he didn't kill his two daughters and denied he tried to take his own life on the day they died. Instead, Andrew Berry's&...
Aug 23, 2019

Bolsonaro prepares to send army to contain Amazon fires
PORTO VELHO, Brazil - Under increasing international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he might send the military to battle the mas...
Aug 23, 2019

CP Women's Open like a family reunion for Tanguay and other Canadian golfers
AURORA, Ont. - The CP Women's Open is more like a family reunion than an LPGA Tour event for Anne-Catherine Tanguay. Tanguay, Brooke Henderson, Alena Sharp, Brittany Marchand and Jaclyn Lee have forge...
Aug 23, 2019

President Trump offers himself as 'the chosen one'
WASHINGTON - King of Israel? The second coming? The chosen one? President Donald Trump is known to have a healthy ego. But a string of comments Wednesday went to a higher level. First, Trump thanked c...
Aug 23, 2019

Former Riders Hughes, Joseph get their just desserts
The news that Neal Hughes was going into the Saskatchewan Roughriders' Plaza of Honour got a cool reception in his Regina household in June."After I told (my nine-year-old son), 'Dad's going into this...
Aug 23, 2019 Former Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Kerry Joseph returned to Regina for the Plaza of Honour induction ceremony on Aug. 22, 2019. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)

Roughriders’ defence returning to dominant ways
The Saskatchewan Roughriders' defence is beginning to show flashes of the dominance it showed throughout the 2018 CFL season.The group is enjoying its best stretch of the 2019 season, holding each of ...
Aug 23, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)

P.A. seeks province's input on cutting liquor retail hours
The City of Prince Albert will ask the province if and how it can curtail alcohol retail hours.According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the rate of hospitalizations caused by alcoho...
Aug 23, 2019 Alcohol on sale (File photo/larongeNOW Staff)

Ottawa said ready to pass law forcing CN to restore rusting Quebec Bridge
QUEBEC - The federal government says it is ready to pass a law forcing the Canadian National Railway to restore the historic Quebec Bridge. Three federal ministers announced today they have appointed ...
Aug 23, 2019

Military faces calls to train soldiers to identify neo-Nazis, hate-group members
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is facing calls to drop what experts say is a reactive approach to racism and hate in the ranks, and instead launch a concentrated, proactive effort campaign to...
Aug 23, 2019