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Two important positions have been filled for La Ronge and the tri-communities. Effective Feb. 22, Steven Brown will be joining municipal staff as the new chief administrative officer (CAO). Brown was ...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for two special constables convicted of criminal negligence in the suffocation death of an inmate at a Halifax police lockup. The thre...

OTTAWA - Pfizer and BioNTech are already assuming Canada will agree its COVID-19 vaccine vials contain six doses instead of five and are using that to project how many vials it will send Canada in the...

OTTAWA - The co-founder of the Quebec City mosque where six people were killed and many others injured four years ago this week laments the lack of federal progress on handgun control in a new letter ...

OTTAWA - Perry Bellegarde of the Assembly of First Nations says it's time for Canada to have a First Nations governor general now that Julie Payette has resigned from the role. The national chief of t...

VANCOUVER - A government-commissioned panel is recommending against the introduction of a basic income for all in British Columbia. The panel's report, co-authored by academics at the University of B....

SGI is warning its customers that they are being targeted through an email scam.In a news release, SGI says the scammers send emails to their targets, asking them to provide a photo or scan of their d...

For the first time since the Saskatchewan Health Authority was formed in December of 2017, it has collective bargaining agreements in place with the unions that represent all of its employees.In a med...

A day trip to the ski hill has left an Aberdeen-born hockey player paralyzed and the hockey community is rallying behind him.Kyrell Sopotyk, a member of the WHL's Kamloops Blazers, was snowboarding wh...

Ontario is awaiting the first COVID-19 projections since a stay-at-home order came into effect two weeks ago. Canada's most populous province reported 2,093 new infections today and 56 more deaths lin...