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La Ronge RCMP arrest five, seize sawed off shotgun
La Ronge RCMP have arrested five individuals after locating and seizing a sawed-off shotgun. That's according to an RCMP media release, which states officers responded to a complaint of a loud gatheri...
Feb 26, 2020 The incident occurred shortly after midnight. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Injury-depleted Wolfpack add two players on loan from Wigan Warriors
TORONTO - The injury-depleted Toronto Wolfpack have added forwards Ben Kilner and Jack Wells on a one-month loan from Wigan Warriors. The two could be eligible to play in Toronto's Super League game S...
Feb 26, 2020
Number of distracted driving tickets drops again
For the third straight month, the number of distracted driving offences recorded in Saskatchewan decreased.According to SGI, Saskatchewan police officers issued 509 tickets for distracted driving in J...
Feb 26, 2020 (CKOM News Staff)
Kaminski named SJHL Coach of the Year
La Ronge Ice Wolves Head Coach Kevin Kaminski is the co-winner of the Canalta Hotels Coach of the Year Award for the 2019-20 season."It's significant for the Ice Wolves to have the success they've had...
Feb 26, 2020 Kevin Kaminski is a co-winner of the Coach of the Year accolade. (submitted photo/Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League)
OD deaths decrease in B.C. but officials say safer drug supply needed
VICTORIA - Overdose deaths linked to illicit drugs dropped by 36 per cent last year in British Columbia compared with 2018 but the death toll remains almost as high as when the province declared ...
Feb 26, 2020
Kenney says feds sank Teck mine with deadline change, but Ottawa says 'not true'
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says it was a new, last-minute delay by Ottawa on whether to approve the Frontier oilsands mine that led Teck Resources Ltd. to pull the plu...
Feb 26, 2020
Government urged to increase diversity at top of federal public service
OTTAWA - The federal government faced calls Monday to add more diversity to the senior ranks of the public service, as black civil servants gathered in the national capital to share their experiences ...
Feb 26, 2020
Halifax council studies quiet fireworks displays to avoid alarming veterans
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia city councillor is pushing for quiet fireworks in Halifax out of concern the noise is alarming veterans and people on the autism spectrum. However some in the pyrotec...
Feb 26, 2020
Canada names provisional Olympic soccer qualifying roster but no Davies, David
Alphonso Davies had a coming-out party Tuesday in Bayern Munich's Champions League win over Chelsea. Jonathan David scored a hat trick for KAA Gent on the weekend and leads the Belgium League in ...
Feb 26, 2020
Congress makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Till
WASHINGTON - Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, introduced b...
Feb 26, 2020