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Freezing rain warning in place for Central Sask.
UPDATE: As of 3:00pm Sunday, the freezing rain advisory has been lifted for the Prince Albert area, but remains in effect for Melfort, Nipawin, Tisdale, Carrot River, and Hudson Bay and areas. The tra...
Jan 22, 2023

Retail Council Canada says industry trying to adapt to needs of workers, customers
After a few rough years, Canada's retail industry was able to recover in 2022.Retail sales were especially strong throughout the holiday season.But John Graham, director of government relations of the...
Jan 22, 2023

Abandoned mines among most expensive territorial contaminated sites
YELLOWKNIFE - Environmental advocates say costly cleanups of former non-renewable resource projects in the North show the need for better planning. Three of Canada's top five most expensive federal co...
Jan 22, 2023

Priciest territorial contaminated sites include abandoned mine, former town site
YELLOWKNIFE - Three of Canada's five most expensive federal contaminated sites are abandoned mines in the North. Former resource extraction projects are also among the most costly sites where the terr...
Jan 22, 2023

Sask. hockey player turned actor excited for Season Two of Shoresy
One of the stars of the hit Canadian sitcom Shoresy is looking forward to filming the second season in the coming months. Jon Mirasty, a former professional hockey player from Flying Dust First Nation...
Jan 22, 2023

Federal cabinet set for three-day retreat in Hamilton ahead of Parliament's return
OTTAWA - The ongoing affordability crunch and the threat of a looming recession will be front and centre as the federal Liberal cabinet holds a post-holiday cabinet retreat this week. Prime Minister J...
Jan 22, 2023

Remote Labrador location potential training ground for astronauts
When scientists determined in the mid-1970s that the Mistastin crater in Labrador had lunar-like properties, the last Apollo mission had flown and it was too late for astronauts to take advantage of t...
Jan 22, 2023

Israel's Netanyahu fires Cabinet ally, heeding court ruling
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired a key Cabinet ally on Sunday, heeding a Supreme Court ruling commanding him to do so and deepening a rift over the power of the ...
Jan 22, 2023

9 killed in shooting near LA after Lunar New Year festival
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) - Nine people were killed in a mass shooting late Saturday in a city east of Los Angeles following a Lunar New Year celebration that attracted thousands, police said. Sgt. B...
Jan 22, 2023

Auger-Aliassime loses four-set match to Lehecka, eliminated from Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia - Jiri Lehecka of Czechia worked more than three hours to eliminate the sixth-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal from the Australian Open men's singles event, winning a phys...
Jan 22, 2023