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Manitoba eyes looser holiday shopping rules, government review underway
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says his Progressive Conservative government is considering loosening the law that limits store openings on some holidays. Pallister says he agrees with a g...
Jul 04, 2019
Youth from viral Facebook video, to appear in court next month
paNOW has learned more about the young man whose arrest was shown this week in a controversial Facebook video.The suspect who cannot be named because he is under the age of 18, was scheduled to make h...
Jul 04, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Arctic fox walks more than 2,700 miles from Norway to Canada
COPENHAGEN - An arctic fox walked more than 4,415 kilometres (2,737 miles) to go from northern Norway to Canada's far north in four months, Norwegian researchers said. The Norwegian Polar Institute re...
Jul 04, 2019
On Hold: Veterans Affairs struggling to answer former service members' calls
OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs Canada has struggled to quickly answer calls from current and former service members seeking information and assistance, newly released documents show, leading many to hang u...
Jul 04, 2019
UN: 5,287 killings in Venezuela security operations in 2018
GENEVA - Venezuela's government registered nearly 5,300 killings during security operations last year linked to cases of "resistance to authority," the U.N. human rights chief reported Thursday, denou...
Jul 04, 2019
De Adder replacement says he's been caught up in social media backlash
An editorial cartoonist says his character has been maligned and career prospects damaged after he was caught up in the online backlash resulting from a New Brunswick newspaper group cutting ties with...
Jul 04, 2019
Anglos, francophones join forces on minority language rights after 'a bad year'
MONTREAL - Quebec anglophones have banded together with francophones in New Brunswick and Ontario to protect and promote the rights of official minority language communities that they say are suddenly...
Jul 04, 2019
Hunger strike ends after agreement reached on Ottawa Indigenous Peoples' space
OTTAWA - An Algonquin grand chief's hunger strike is over after an agreement with the federal government on a project to create a major Indigenous centre in Ottawa. Steps away from Parliament Hill, Ve...
Jul 04, 2019
La Ronge honours top three Canada Day float teams
The awards have been presented for the best floats at the annual Canada Day parade in La Ronge. Float is probably an appropriate word given the very wet conditions for the late morning event Monday bu...
Jul 04, 2019 Left to right, Lawrence Anderson presents the top prize to Samantha Plunz and Jim
Searson, with Fire Chief, Wayne Tchorzewski. (submitted photo)
Former N.S. Mountie sentenced to decade in prison for theft, cocaine trafficking
HALIFAX - A former Nova Scotia Mountie has been sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison for stealing 10 kilograms of cocaine from an exhibit locker and arranging sales t...
Jul 04, 2019