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Police and SGI to focus on distracted driving throughout October
Distracted driving will be the focus for police forces across Saskatchewan for October's Traffic Safety Spotlight.According to data from SGI, an average of 877 have been injured in collisions each yea...
Oct 06, 2021

NATO expels 8 'undeclared' Russian intelligence officers
BRUSSELS (AP) - NATO on Wednesday expelled eight members of Russia's mission to the military alliance, saying that they were secretly working as intelligence officers and cut the size of Moscow's team...
Oct 06, 2021

Trudeau says Tofino trip on National Day of Truth and Reconciliation a 'mistake'
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he regrets the mistake of travelling to British Columbia to join his vacationing family on a day meant to honour Indigenous survivors of Canada's residentia...
Oct 06, 2021

Burlington welterweight Mike Malott wins UFC contract with submission victory
Canadian welterweight Mike (Proper) Malott is headed to the UFC after a 39-second submission win on Dana White's Contender Series. The 29-year-old from Burlington, Ont., was awarded a UFC contract aft...
Oct 06, 2021

Brazil, Mexico challenge Canada for 2022 men's world curling berth
LACOMBE, Alta. - Canada has to win a berth in the 2022 world men's curling championship because of a challenge from Brazil and Mexico. Reigning Canadian champion Brendan Bottcher from Edmonton will fa...
Oct 06, 2021

As holiday weekend approaches, NDP demands advice on how to spend Thanksgiving
Fearing a surge of COVID-19 infections fuelled by indoor gatherings, NDP Leader Ryan Meili is calling on the Saskatchewan government to limit gatherings and to offer advice on how people can safely ce...
Oct 06, 2021

More Saskatchewan residents starting to travel again
More people are taking trips abroad despite being in the midst of the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Terry Kaszas, a travel development specialist with CAA, said travel from Saskatchewan really ...
Oct 06, 2021

Moderna asks Health Canada to authorize booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine
OTTAWA - U.S. drugmaker Moderna is asking Health Canada to authorize a booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine. The company submitted data on a booster shot that is half the size of the doses used to giv...
Oct 06, 2021

General who wrote reference for sex offender reassigned after outrage over new post
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces has removed a senior officer who wrote a reference for a convicted sex offender from his job reviewing ways to eliminate military sexual misconduct. Vice chief of th...
Oct 06, 2021

Nobel Prize in chemistry honors tool to build molecules
STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David W.C. MacMillan of Princeton University. ...
Oct 06, 2021